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It's becoming white noise and will soon become irrelevant. Same thing is happening with table-top game art and I'm sure other areas I'm not aware of.

Stacked year!

1. Ghost of Yotei
2. Clair Obscur
3. Death Stranding 2

Geoff got bribed ending with this one. lol

The final Highguard premier was a real buzzkill. Not sure what Geoff was thinking saving that for last. Way to end the show with a fizzle.

I just started Eternal a few weeks ago, and wow, did I sleep on it for years. It's starts off pretty brutal but becomes a very addicting game loop once you start making progress.

@ThomasHL "Consolidation is always bad". Silly. Acquisitions often allow assets to be used in more efficient ways including necessary streamlining. Does is always work out? No, but that is not important. Mergers and acquisitions are the means to determine whether a more efficient firm can exist. Knowing the outcome in advance is impossible because the market information doesn't exist yet. +1 creative destruction

@old_gamer74 I'm rubbish at it too but I actually don't mind losing over and over since the game loop is so fun. Hades was kind of like that for me too.

I picked up Returnal on sale, and wow, I slept on that one for years. 9/10 so far.

Demon's Souls run backs got old quick.

@LeeBB_Art I think the anti rich sentiment comes from the zero sum mentality of getting wealthy at the expense of the poor. An economic fallacy for sure, but a common one unfortunately.

@Medic_alert That is the point. You want to empty the homes the rich live in now by building more new supply. The more supply, the more affordability. Agree with you on education mostly being a rip-off (not for doctors though who will be rich in the long run). And agree again on foreign aid that should be zero or only provided in rare circumstances.

@D6rkLordS6t6n Greed is a worthless explanatory concept. You won't find a chapter on it in any economic or business textbook. Care to guess why? I'll give you a hint. Ever hear of "gravity" as being the cause of plane crashes?

@Medic_alert "Abject poverty" in the US is upper middle class in many other countries. What matters is income mobility, and as I said before, wealth is mostly associated with age (the young will at be top when they retire; the extremely wealthy don't hinder this outcome). Inequality is natural and good in a market economy. Equality would mean the same wage for every job and person. Housing and taxes are different topics. With housing, you want to increase supply by making it very easy to build (not the case now because of regulations). The wealthy would move to new housing that would free up old homes that the young can afford. Have you looked at a US projected debt chart lately? This country is facing default/bankruptcy in a few decades. The debt is expected to be 200% of GDP by 2040 (banana republic levels). Increasing taxes won't come close to fixing. Huge entitlement reform including "cuts" will have to occur to avoid.

@D6rkLordS6t6n 100% agree with you in cases of accumulating wealth through cronyism, which does not expand the economic pie.

@Medic_alert False narrative. The US is EXTREMELY rich compared to other countries. The US is an outlier with its high per capita GDP. The middle class has been shrinking over decades but not because the middle class has become poorer but because it has moved into high income quintiles.

@LeeBB_Art $500-$600 billion philanthropic money per year. The rich care about legacy and like their names on buildings, parks, charities, etc.

@LeeBB_Art And what do people think the rich do with their money? The spend it (more jobs), save it (more loanable funds), fund parks, hospitals, libraries, museums and charities. Less of this is better? Silly.

@nessisonett Society becoming richer is better than becoming poorer and being "rich" is mostly attributed to your age (i.e., income mobility). The poor are young who accumulate wealth over time.

@D6rkLordS6t6n You can't stop it though. The end result of AI and automation is a society where everyone is "rich" in the sense that it will mostly be a leisure society since basic needs such as housing, food and transportation are zero or nearly zero cost. The transition will be the tricky part with stuff like basic minimum incomes assisting along the way.

@nessisonett As an economic concept, AI is a technology whose effect is automation.

Seems inevitable and will soon be forgotten as controversial as the grocery check out machines.

@Oram77 It was weird. You could tell it was an adult pretending to be a kid or some sort of audio modification.

@Futureshark Maybe the GOTY snub will help.

@Tatarimokke I'm not a fan of turned based either but the dodging and parrying was the element that made it work for me. If that sounds appealing, there is a good chance you will enjoy.

I see these nine as having the best chance:

-Expedition 33
-Donkey Kong Bananza
-Death Stranding 2
-Ghost of Yotei
-Hades 2
-Hollow Knight Silksong
-Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
-Blue Prince
-Split Fiction

Fans will inevitably be upset by the three excluded assuming six are chosen.

One of the worst in recent memory

Picked up Nier Automata 60% off.

@JohntheRaptor Slower than automatics and torture in traffic.

Please not another old ass early 2000's remaster/remake catering to nostalgic GenX'ers who also long for manual transmissions in cars and printed newspapers.

Sour grapes letter from the employees. If your 100K-ish a year job was "unbearable" and consisted of too much overtime, you should have quit.

Public gripes like this almost make me favor bringing the military draft back.

@Burnish1619 I saw this was on sale a few days ago right before I went to bed and had to plans to buy in the morning and of course it was regular price the next day. Boo!

PROFIT and LOSS people. Always remember. PROFITS are great but LOSSES are invaluable market signals on what not to do in the long run. Stupid decisions are a feature, not a bug, in a thriving market economy.

Wolverine and Crimson Desert release date carried it. 8/10.

Will be avoiding this game with long runbacks (huge pet peeve of mine) being mentioned multiple times here.

@Duck_Farmer Cool idea of playing F1 track right before weekend race!

@lazarus11 Damn, I better come up with plan C until Ghost of Yotei.

Hell Is Us hopefully delivers next week.

Ghost of Yotei and Hell is Us should get me to the end of the year.

More of the same with lots of refinement works for me.

@PerpetualBoredom Because mom and pop stores are capable of making cars, airplanes, video game consoles, military equipment, etc.

@KundaliniRising333 In a healthy market, you want prices to adjust based on fluctuating market conditions like currency instability. The principle of "eating your profits" is a destructive economic principle that leads to less profits in the long-run. Profits are a sign of economic efficiency so the more the better. Losses are signals of market inefficiency that results in job loss. No need to create villains when markets are workings correctly.

@nessisonett False comparison. The analogy would be talking about an attractive male butt. No biggie IMO.

Sorry ladies, it's part of our DNA to obsess.

Such a good anime series.

Holy frivolous

@Oram77 I cancelled this morning and picked up a copy at Target.

Amazon physical orders seem to be delayed with no firm updates.

Still so many potential bangers this year- Death Stranding 2, Mafia, Ghost of Yotei, Hell is Us, Crimson Desert, Wuchang Fallen Feathers, etc.

Anyone get a mail delay message from Amazon for the disk copy of the game? Annoying.