God dammit I remember the original Fallujah project, some of the soldiers who were part of that battle were brought on BECAUSE they wanted people to understand what those 6 days were like and to that end they were lining up interviews with as many eye witnesses and surviving combatants as they could And now it's gonna be some procedureally generated bullshit to make a quick jingoistic buck I feel sick
Yep, I was pretty much trying to get the first iteration pre-ordered as soon as I heard about it. I'm still on-board with the idea, and I feel like that core is still there, but I also feel like it's been overlaid by corporate crap.
I can actually appreciate that this might of been an actual artistic decision. While "unlimited replayability" is definitely a disgusting way for the marketing team to phrase it, being able to replay it with varying scenarios could help a person to ruminate on what they're experiencing without the numbness that comes from repeating video game levels.
@@IronicCliche Yeah, I'm really hoping that's the part where corporate stepped in. We'll have to see the finished product to really tell. If we ever see the finished product.
It sounds like they literally were not trying to make a political commentary and genuinely were trying to make an experience that only gaming can provide. Attempting to put people into this battle without passing judgement. That this was met with mockery and hostility didn't help, but I imagine it wasn't going to go well.
Yeah. I don't know if it was ever possible to make a responsible videogame adaptation of a real-world military conflict still very much in living memory. What I do know, is that this current attempt seems to be doing everything in its power to make sure no one ever bothers trying ever again.
I can't make up a coincidence this outlandish My wife, last night, was doing her job - working for a cable company - and found some HBO channels not doing HD on their HD channels like they should. She left our TV on HBO Signature, one of their several sub-channels. When I got off work, I turned the TV on to find grainy, low-rez Jonah Hill on screen. Turns out Moneyball was on and I went ".... IS THAT EFFING BOBBY KOTICK!?" It felt like getting slapped in the face. So imagine my uproarious laughter this morning when Graham went off like a shotgun.
When it comes to discontinued games - with some of these being LIVE SERVICE GAMES - having a way to play them when no one else is making ANY money off of them should be the norm, but it's not. "There are no good reasons, only legal ones." - Ross Scott
I mean the one good thing about bobby kotik is that he's a walking avatar of corporate greed so nakedly malevolent and evil he's actually really helpful to point to when someone naive asks "but why do you think corporations are bad? they're not trying to do bad things just make money"
@@hornylink Some of the corporations I worked for made me wonder if they were wishing for the return of actual slavery, as opposed to the current version where you have to throw people in an american prison in some states first so you can pay them a lip service wage of less than a dollar an hour. My state voted to pay prisoners the Oregon minimum wage for any labor they were forced to do while incarcerated in Oregon.
@SSgt Mole not having to pay for labor would increase a company's profits and please shareholders. So yes the corporations would love slavery. Though they might prefer corporate towns since with those they dont have to pay for their slaves just lure them in with lies and make staying alive more expensive than what they're paid
@@hornylink "Maybe your purpose in live is only to serve as a warning to others." That joke aphorism begins to take an air of veracity when we look his way...
Now, there's at least 5+ years since I played overwatch, but I'm pretty sure the community took one look at PharMercy combo, and decided that they were lesbians with each other approximately 12 minutes after the game came out. So when I heard the related segment in this episode, my reaction was 100% "I.. thought we knew?"
I suspect those who shipped Mercy with Genji would protest. Also I'm fairly certain Pharah was shipped with Mercy for the same reason that Medic was shipped with Heavy.
PharMercy's definitely been a thing, but Blizzard has been nudging Mercy towards Genji. I guess after hearing "I NEED HEALING!" two thousand times a match, she's got it in her head that she can fix him?
Man, that last bit about Kotick just tells you everything you want to know about how billionaires (tragically correctly) think they're completely untouchable and have to suffer 0 consequences for anything they do.
From the opening "no Overwatch cops at Pride" crack to the Six Days story and a very good discussion about nuance in emulation, this was a WILD news cycle and immediately very solidly became one of my favorite Checkpoints you guys have ever done. Great work to the whole team and *very* good delivery on G&B's part.
I totally agree with Beej regarding the whole emulation thing that there's nuance and ultimately it's a personal decision everyone needs to make for themselves, and no one is entitled to copies of a game no matter how much they want to play it or how long ago that game's production run ended. That said, if the only options to play a game are an exorbitant amount of money on eBay or AliExpress or Facebook Marketplace or something like that, somehow find a second-hand copy a friend owns to borrow, or emulate it? I have zero issue personally just emulating it. It's not a sale through a retailer like Gamestop or Walmart or Amazon or through in this context the Nintendo eShop that I'm depriving the developer and producer some money from. It's an enormously inflated resale price for an already used copy of the game that's only that expensive because it's old and most people who own it aren't reselling in the first place. It's not a copy of the game I was going to be buying regardless, so no "sale" has been lost even theoretically, and even if I had bought one the original developer and the producer and retailer that copy was bought from are seeing none of that money in the first place.
Minor note on the dolphin and nintendo bit... Valve might not have had any LEGAL liability. But in the interests of good relationships with one of the biggest developers around...I can see why someone thought it was a good idea to ask. Problem being, the moment they asked, they couldn't stop. Sure, they could then have ignored the email, but ignoring an email like that is just asking for trouble. Likewise, Nintendo HAD to respond that way, because they were being specifically checked with. Nintendo absolutely DID know about dolphin and had been happily quietly ignoring it for ages. They do that a lot of the time, to be honest. So many other fan games get cancelled or cease and desisted before release, but am2r got out the door. Pokemon infinite fusion is blowing up shorts widely enough, but is still going too. So yeah, valve bad, nintendo good. But also, real curious exactly which poor person sent that email, because I would bet they really didnt foresee any of this.
Just makes me think of Borderlands 2 and Axton having a line that was supposed to be said towards female characters when you revive them...but ended up being bugged out and it occasionally happened with male characters, so Gearbox, to their credit, rolled with it and just went "yeah, he's bi instead of straight" to the point of adding ingame dialogue confirming it in the Tiny Tina DLC. Just call me Bob Ross, because that's what I call a happy accident.
The fact that a lot of people would absolutely believe Kobby Bottick for that statement is infuriating. It sounds crazy to us, but people that hate unions already will absolutely believe him.
The original six days in Fallujah sounded interesting like it was going to be more of a story documentary that happened to be interactive, something in the vein of spec Ops the Line Design to try to kick you out of your normal head space as a FPS Gamer.
The more this nonsense goes on, the more skeptical I am that that was ever really the plan. Hell, if anything, the developers have a lot _more_ creative freedom to make the game they really want now than they did under the thumb of Konami in a year where the Iraq War was technically still ongoing. And if this is what they're choosing to do with it...
2:48 "Extra oomph" is also used by music producers/engineers. Having watched and read countless tutorials/guides, the poetic language describing sound can get confusing: oomph, shine, shimmer, glaze, boomy, roomy, punchy, crunchy et al. I'm pretty sure there's a non-zero chance to hear this feedback from a client when working as a sound engineer: "What the hell? I asked for crunchy and you give me crusty? Also don't scoop the mids, smurf them instead by a smidge not a nudge."
I figure the context wasn't "management would never do this" but "this is employee driven because you all already know management follows that weird system that gives numerical values to things like race or sexual orientation because we openly share it that one time"
Thank you for making me feel better about my lack of Tears of the Kingdom engineering skills. I was starting to feel like a teenager who's seen too many Instagram models and is wallowing in self-deprecating ressentiment.
Ronald Reagan wasn't just a union member, he was a proactive union member negotiating good deals for his union. And yet by all reasonable accounts he was anti-union; because his union work wasn't the product of caring about labor, it was naked self-interest. And Bobby joined a union for that exact naked self-interest.
Reagan was also a stoolpigeon for J. Edgar Hoover's red scare FBI - ratting out all the union members that he thought were commies. As such, he never should have received the security clearance for his run for the Governor of California - a clearance that was required at the time because of the nuclear power plants in California. Who didn't veto Reagan's clearance? J. Edgar Hoover. 🦨
According to Reagan's contemporaries in said union, he did NOT "negotiate good deals for his union" - he was (pardon my language) SHIT. His leadership of that union wasn't worth a tinker's cuss. That said, I think it was a case of incompetence, not some undercover effort to *sabotage the union*; he simply did a miserable job because he wasn't capable of doing a good job. I do, however, agree wholeheartedly that he was a member of that union for pure naked self-interest in what it did for HIM, not 'what it did for all like him'.
Now, are we talking about a labor union he belonged to, or _the_ Union he was president of for eight years? Because you could damn near describe his role in that in the exact same words.
@@stevethepocket Yeah, I'm talking about his membership in and eventual leadership of the Screen Actors Guild. James Garner is just the first person I can recall that stated quite unequivocally that he wasn't qualified to lead a trade union, let alone be the governor of California, not to mention PotUS
Between Darth Kotick and the “it is always morally okay to pirate Nintendo” shtick I could feel the the spirit of Commander Sterling hovering very close this episode
"new corporate malfeasance on their july roadmap" leaves it ambiguous as to whether it is malfeasance in regards to the standard roadmap or that they may have a separate roadmap solely dedicated to malfeasance, and at this point I'm not sure which it is. Also, I'm impressed you found a worse story to follow that one that makes ActiBlizz look sane in comparison. (though good ol' Bobby had to come in there with the people's elbow at the end to reclaim the title)
I think the advent of powerful and convenient portable gaming makes emulating the good old days even more tempting. Being able to fire up GBA Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission or the three Castlevania games on a Steam Deck sounds great. I could go on forever listing the games but yeah, it’s hard to say I don’t want to play Panzer Dragoon at any time.
I just realized, but if Ubisoft was in charge of Six Days of Fallujah instead of Konami, there would be no pulling out. This is funny not only for the ten year old fact they have a sailing ship game that has been floundering in calm seas for so long that should it happen to find it's way to somebody's shores, we would consider it to be a ghost ship mystery to rival the Mary Celest. Oh, no! This joke also plays homage to current and former members of Ubisoft's upper level management team.
“We’ve done all manner of investigations,” can I see them? Bobby, can you show me those investigations? May I see the raw evidence? I sure would love to see you back it up one of these days, Bobby.
I kinda feel like businesses should lose the copyright to media if they don't reasonably enable people to buy a new copy of it after some period of time, at least with stuff that can be digitized.
But actually buy it, not lease access to a live service that lets you play it once every five years. If the drm would prevent you using it, it's a poisoned product.
@@hayuseen6683 Trouble with that is that it makes almost everything on the internet public domain by default, including the entirety of RUclips. I'm not sure that's a good idea?
@@stevethepocket How does that make everything public domain? Public domain has to do with ownership. DRM that makes software useless because they no longer have servers or file patches has zero to do with that.
@@hayuseen6683 You said "actually buy it", which is something you can't do to content that's been posted on the internet. Even if it's free, you don't own a copy of it, so by your rules, it can't be copyrighted.
@@stevethepocket Got your context mixed up. We're talking about commercial game products made by companies that have been out of sale for years. Emulating old console games. Because the companies arbitrarily restrict access they can't be played. "actually buy it" - "public content even if its free you don't own a copy of it" Content posted publicly is licensed publicly and everyone can access and retain the media legitimately. It's not gated by DRM that destroys the media once a server gets shut down, presumably. It isn't that nobody owns a copy, everyone that downloads it owns a copy. "so by your rules it can't be copyrighted" You forgot the rest of that sentence is "not lease access to a live service" that would end up dying. That's the point of that statement. Bought goods that self-destruct are bad. A license to the media itself, be it public or commercial, constitutes ownership. A lease to a service to access media is not ownership, and drm that eventually fails means it breaks whatever function the product has whether owned or not.
So what you're telling me that Bobby Kotik is only a fan of unions when it he benefits of it personally, and not when it is used to keep him in check? What a shocker.
The legal issue of emulation and piracy is at least a bit thorny. The ethical aspect of it, though? Particularly as it applies to what is essentially abandonware, I think the ethical question is pretty clear.
Let's be real, the only reason music and movies/tv shows have less of a gray area with pirating is because they have good legal distribution platforms. Games have Steam and the like, anything on those can be bought, anything that can't be bought on there or is similarly easy to access can go say goodbye to their good will from fans. There's only so far you can expect someone to use legal channels.
The only thing stopping me from building absolutely stupid contraptions in TotK is my hoarding tendencies in games and the fact I need MUCH MORE battery power to actually POWER something absolutely stupid for more than like, two seconds. 🤣
holy cow I think I got actual whiplash going from the reasonable response to Dolphin being taken down to the extra "Bobby Kotick is a massive prick" story
On the emulation thing, regarding Beej's "Well what I if I don' thave a NES?" Nintendo has allowed all their old hardware patents to lapse, and functional hardware clones are pretty damn common. Local game store has a whole shelf of the things, playing damn near every cartridge based system. These are in much cleaner legal territory because they're using hardware that the patent has expired on, and thus any yahoo with the knowhow can make, and still require the original cartridge. Note that if you have the cartridge in your house, the ROMs get much less legally questionable because of how that whole thing is set up. That said. If Nintendo has made it impossible to legally acquire the thing from them. Not from some collector on ebay, not from some pawn shop scenario, but FROM NINTENDO, my feelings on it are that me buying it second hand has the SAME impact to Nintendo's bottom line as me pirating it, or not buying it at all. Also, there is so much functional abandonware out there (either because it's literal abandonware and NOBODY owns the rights to it anymore or because the actual rights holder has no interest in making it available on any platform or in otherwise utilizing the IP) that Emulation projects do serve a serious good. But I think Graham and Beej are both right that it's important not to confuse "morally correct" with "legal" and it's important to be aware of the difference. To go to an example that has NOTHING to do with video games, not even allegorically, if a woman steals baby formula, what she's doing may be morally defensible, but it's still not LEGAL. Also, Bobby, if there was never any merit to the accusations, do all of those senior developers and executives you let go have grounds for a Wrongful termination suit?
I saw six day on steam and than noticed the early access tag and thought, "dear god using early access for a war is hell real event message game seems dumb", little did I know how bad it actually was.
For some context Diablo 4 early access started the day of that article and he likely made sure that they hit at the same time so when blizzard is looked up Diablo 4 dominates the search and this gets hidden. I mention all this is his statement is as said in the video were messed up and wrong but it adds a level of all my employees are only numbers level of disrespect to basically not just let the devs celebrate their game coming out even if some of the practice of the game are questionable (likely all from the influence of bobby including the producer that decided they neededto be included. )
I've never played a Blizzard game past Starcraft, and *I* knew Pharah was lesbian like before Overwatch launched! Thank you for that unasked (but not undesired) for information, Internet!
Shit I didn't know that was actually Bobby K in Moneyball. I remember thinking it looked a lot like him but why the fuck would he be in a movie and I just ignored it.
I'm sure he thought he was playing the role of "respectable major league team owner." May their tax breaks to build their team stadiums earn them a trip to a black hole spaghettification event.
Even if you did have a NES Dragon Warrior III cart, you couldn't save. Or to be more accurate, you could save just fine, until you turned off the power to your NES, then your save would evaporate into the ether. There is no possibility that the battery backing up your save would still be functional.
Of course Booby is not against Unions... when they work for him. The moment his work-force is in a union that makes it harder for him, he will be actively trying to stop it. But the actors Union that he is in, that actively helps him and that he can't control out side of it. He would be all for... Fucking snake.
Yeah you can't buy Dragon Warrior 3 for the NES, but you can buy Dragon Quest 3 for the Switch for $12 so the "who am I harming" is Square Enix who have made sure that it's available to you. I think it's different for games that aren't easily available or where there is dispute over who owns the rights/licensing issues that stop it from being republished
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"We have investigated ourselves and found ourselves completely innocent of any wrongdoings."
"I can't be anti-union because I'm in a union"
That's not what that means, that just makes the union busting worse.
God dammit I remember the original Fallujah project, some of the soldiers who were part of that battle were brought on BECAUSE they wanted people to understand what those 6 days were like and to that end they were lining up interviews with as many eye witnesses and surviving combatants as they could
And now it's gonna be some procedureally generated bullshit to make a quick jingoistic buck
I feel sick
Yep, I was pretty much trying to get the first iteration pre-ordered as soon as I heard about it.
I'm still on-board with the idea, and I feel like that core is still there, but I also feel like it's been overlaid by corporate crap.
I can actually appreciate that this might of been an actual artistic decision. While "unlimited replayability" is definitely a disgusting way for the marketing team to phrase it, being able to replay it with varying scenarios could help a person to ruminate on what they're experiencing without the numbness that comes from repeating video game levels.
@@IronicCliche Yeah, I'm really hoping that's the part where corporate stepped in.
We'll have to see the finished product to really tell. If we ever see the finished product.
It sounds like they literally were not trying to make a political commentary and genuinely were trying to make an experience that only gaming can provide. Attempting to put people into this battle without passing judgement.
That this was met with mockery and hostility didn't help, but I imagine it wasn't going to go well.
Yeah. I don't know if it was ever possible to make a responsible videogame adaptation of a real-world military conflict still very much in living memory. What I do know, is that this current attempt seems to be doing everything in its power to make sure no one ever bothers trying ever again.
"NOW we know?!"
That delivery got me! XD
Beej's been Big Nintendo this whole time?!?!
I can't make up a coincidence this outlandish
My wife, last night, was doing her job - working for a cable company - and found some HBO channels not doing HD on their HD channels like they should. She left our TV on HBO Signature, one of their several sub-channels.
When I got off work, I turned the TV on to find grainy, low-rez Jonah Hill on screen.
Turns out Moneyball was on and I went ".... IS THAT EFFING BOBBY KOTICK!?"
It felt like getting slapped in the face. So imagine my uproarious laughter this morning when Graham went off like a shotgun.
When it comes to discontinued games - with some of these being LIVE SERVICE GAMES - having a way to play them when no one else is making ANY money off of them should be the norm, but it's not. "There are no good reasons, only legal ones." - Ross Scott
Wow... I've never heard Graham react to anything like he did the Bobby Kotik story at the end before.
I like it when they critique the capitals.
That last bit about Bobby boils my blood. Nothing went wrong? I know a lot of my former employees as well as myself might disagree just a little.
I mean the one good thing about bobby kotik is that he's a walking avatar of corporate greed so nakedly malevolent and evil he's actually really helpful to point to when someone naive asks "but why do you think corporations are bad? they're not trying to do bad things just make money"
@@hornylink Some of the corporations I worked for made me wonder if they were wishing for the return of actual slavery, as opposed to the current version where you have to throw people in an american prison in some states first so you can pay them a lip service wage of less than a dollar an hour. My state voted to pay prisoners the Oregon minimum wage for any labor they were forced to do while incarcerated in Oregon.
@SSgt Mole not having to pay for labor would increase a company's profits and please shareholders. So yes the corporations would love slavery. Though they might prefer corporate towns since with those they dont have to pay for their slaves just lure them in with lies and make staying alive more expensive than what they're paid
@@hornylink "Maybe your purpose in live is only to serve as a warning to others."
That joke aphorism begins to take an air of veracity when we look his way...
@@empath69 is that a thing people say? I've never heard that quote before
"Quite the SomeGuy" is a powerful phrase
Now, there's at least 5+ years since I played overwatch, but I'm pretty sure the community took one look at PharMercy combo, and decided that they were lesbians with each other approximately 12 minutes after the game came out.
So when I heard the related segment in this episode, my reaction was 100% "I.. thought we knew?"
I suspect those who shipped Mercy with Genji would protest.
Also I'm fairly certain Pharah was shipped with Mercy for the same reason that Medic was shipped with Heavy.
Also wasn't Bautiste gay when he was introduced? I seem to recall a husband was mentioned in his bio.
PharMercy's definitely been a thing, but Blizzard has been nudging Mercy towards Genji. I guess after hearing "I NEED HEALING!" two thousand times a match, she's got it in her head that she can fix him?
@@AnchorJG And? Bi guys can be married to either sex, it's kind of the point.
With as much overwatch rule 34 that exists, you can ship anybody with anybody
Man, that last bit about Kotick just tells you everything you want to know about how billionaires (tragically correctly) think they're completely untouchable and have to suffer 0 consequences for anything they do.
Bobby, threatened to have his former assistant killed, Kotick? That Bobby Kotick?
Graham’s reaction to the Bobby interview alone is worth more upvotes than I can give.
HE BLAMED THE MC FREAKIN UNION DRIVE?!
Propter hoc ergo post hoc, am I rite?
Podquisition breakdown of that quote on Thursday is gonna be spicy...
@@NinjaDeathSlap Ye, it didn't get covered in this week's so you can guarantee there will be calls to crucify him. Figuratively, of course.....
@@sarahsmith840 That'll be on Kotick's gravestone.
And Bobby Kotick wasn’t struck by lightning when he said that. Start drinking.
But did the portrait he keeps in his secret vault suffer greatly for this effrontery to the very nature of truth?
@@empath69 Hey cool, new word for me today, 'effrontery'
I'm frankly happy we got the Kotick shitspiel in the aftershow. Somehow the visceral almost realtime reactions made it that much more.
From the opening "no Overwatch cops at Pride" crack to the Six Days story and a very good discussion about nuance in emulation, this was a WILD news cycle and immediately very solidly became one of my favorite Checkpoints you guys have ever done. Great work to the whole team and *very* good delivery on G&B's part.
I love Beej’s notes on the back of a Tim Hortons bag!
I totally agree with Beej regarding the whole emulation thing that there's nuance and ultimately it's a personal decision everyone needs to make for themselves, and no one is entitled to copies of a game no matter how much they want to play it or how long ago that game's production run ended. That said, if the only options to play a game are an exorbitant amount of money on eBay or AliExpress or Facebook Marketplace or something like that, somehow find a second-hand copy a friend owns to borrow, or emulate it? I have zero issue personally just emulating it. It's not a sale through a retailer like Gamestop or Walmart or Amazon or through in this context the Nintendo eShop that I'm depriving the developer and producer some money from. It's an enormously inflated resale price for an already used copy of the game that's only that expensive because it's old and most people who own it aren't reselling in the first place. It's not a copy of the game I was going to be buying regardless, so no "sale" has been lost even theoretically, and even if I had bought one the original developer and the producer and retailer that copy was bought from are seeing none of that money in the first place.
Thank you for your great coverage of the 6 days in Fallujah project.
Oh good im not the only person that cant speedbuild the taj mahal in tears of the kingdom yet
Minor note on the dolphin and nintendo bit...
Valve might not have had any LEGAL liability. But in the interests of good relationships with one of the biggest developers around...I can see why someone thought it was a good idea to ask.
Problem being, the moment they asked, they couldn't stop. Sure, they could then have ignored the email, but ignoring an email like that is just asking for trouble.
Likewise, Nintendo HAD to respond that way, because they were being specifically checked with. Nintendo absolutely DID know about dolphin and had been happily quietly ignoring it for ages. They do that a lot of the time, to be honest. So many other fan games get cancelled or cease and desisted before release, but am2r got out the door. Pokemon infinite fusion is blowing up shorts widely enough, but is still going too.
So yeah, valve bad, nintendo good. But also, real curious exactly which poor person sent that email, because I would bet they really didnt foresee any of this.
Personally, I wouldn't say "valve bad, nintendo good" - more like "VALVe meh, Nintendo meh, Legal System ULTRA-BAD_BAD-D-D-Ddddd....."
Thanks for adding the Six Days story Graham. That’s messed up and I wouldn’t have known about it otherwise.
Just makes me think of Borderlands 2 and Axton having a line that was supposed to be said towards female characters when you revive them...but ended up being bugged out and it occasionally happened with male characters, so Gearbox, to their credit, rolled with it and just went "yeah, he's bi instead of straight" to the point of adding ingame dialogue confirming it in the Tiny Tina DLC. Just call me Bob Ross, because that's what I call a happy accident.
That opening bit was a top tier intro
The fact that a lot of people would absolutely believe Kobby Bottick for that statement is infuriating. It sounds crazy to us, but people that hate unions already will absolutely believe him.
That did sound exactly like pride...
The original six days in Fallujah sounded interesting like it was going to be more of a story documentary that happened to be interactive, something in the vein of spec Ops the Line Design to try to kick you out of your normal head space as a FPS Gamer.
The more this nonsense goes on, the more skeptical I am that that was ever really the plan. Hell, if anything, the developers have a lot _more_ creative freedom to make the game they really want now than they did under the thumb of Konami in a year where the Iraq War was technically still ongoing. And if this is what they're choosing to do with it...
2:48 "Extra oomph" is also used by music producers/engineers. Having watched and read countless tutorials/guides, the poetic language describing sound can get confusing: oomph, shine, shimmer, glaze, boomy, roomy, punchy, crunchy et al. I'm pretty sure there's a non-zero chance to hear this feedback from a client when working as a sound engineer: "What the hell? I asked for crunchy and you give me crusty? Also don't scoop the mids, smurf them instead by a smidge not a nudge."
I figure the context wasn't "management would never do this" but "this is employee driven because you all already know management follows that weird system that gives numerical values to things like race or sexual orientation because we openly share it that one time"
Praise the algorithm etc, just started Patreon support, so glad I can give back to the crew that have given us all so much.
Thank you for making me feel better about my lack of Tears of the Kingdom engineering skills. I was starting to feel like a teenager who's seen too many Instagram models and is wallowing in self-deprecating ressentiment.
Ronald Reagan wasn't just a union member, he was a proactive union member negotiating good deals for his union.
And yet by all reasonable accounts he was anti-union; because his union work wasn't the product of caring about labor, it was naked self-interest.
And Bobby joined a union for that exact naked self-interest.
Wasn't it Reagan who famously fired all of the air traffic controllers in the nation when they tried to unionize?
Reagan was also a stoolpigeon for J. Edgar Hoover's red scare FBI - ratting out all the union members that he thought were commies. As such, he never should have received the security clearance for his run for the Governor of California - a clearance that was required at the time because of the nuclear power plants in California.
Who didn't veto Reagan's clearance? J. Edgar Hoover. 🦨
According to Reagan's contemporaries in said union, he did NOT "negotiate good deals for his union" - he was (pardon my language) SHIT. His leadership of that union wasn't worth a tinker's cuss.
That said, I think it was a case of incompetence, not some undercover effort to *sabotage the union*; he simply did a miserable job because he wasn't capable of doing a good job.
I do, however, agree wholeheartedly that he was a member of that union for pure naked self-interest in what it did for HIM, not 'what it did for all like him'.
Now, are we talking about a labor union he belonged to, or _the_ Union he was president of for eight years? Because you could damn near describe his role in that in the exact same words.
@@stevethepocket Yeah, I'm talking about his membership in and eventual leadership of the Screen Actors Guild. James Garner is just the first person I can recall that stated quite unequivocally that he wasn't qualified to lead a trade union, let alone be the governor of California, not to mention PotUS
I let out an audible "oh jesus" when graham said six days was procedurally generated
I headdesk'ed so hard, my headset came off my head, and I had to run the video back in some 21st century evolution of a double-take.
I did an actual spit-take when you mentioned Six Days in Fallujah. I wasn't even playing video games when that story started.
I can't wait to see the Jimquisition on Bobby's statement
Between Darth Kotick and the “it is always morally okay to pirate Nintendo” shtick I could feel the the spirit of Commander Sterling hovering very close this episode
"new corporate malfeasance on their july roadmap" leaves it ambiguous as to whether it is malfeasance in regards to the standard roadmap or that they may have a separate roadmap solely dedicated to malfeasance, and at this point I'm not sure which it is.
Also, I'm impressed you found a worse story to follow that one that makes ActiBlizz look sane in comparison. (though good ol' Bobby had to come in there with the people's elbow at the end to reclaim the title)
Holy shit an actual picture of the band Mastodon lol
I think the advent of powerful and convenient portable gaming makes emulating the good old days even more tempting. Being able to fire up GBA Metroid Fusion and Zero Mission or the three Castlevania games on a Steam Deck sounds great. I could go on forever listing the games but yeah, it’s hard to say I don’t want to play Panzer Dragoon at any time.
I just realized, but if Ubisoft was in charge of Six Days of Fallujah instead of Konami, there would be no pulling out. This is funny not only for the ten year old fact they have a sailing ship game that has been floundering in calm seas for so long that should it happen to find it's way to somebody's shores, we would consider it to be a ghost ship mystery to rival the Mary Celest. Oh, no! This joke also plays homage to current and former members of Ubisoft's upper level management team.
If "playing as a civilian" is actually in that game I bet it's some war crimes apologia where the "civilians" have weapons and fight
100% it's this
I had my suspicions that Beej liked Nintendo but there was nothing tangible to base it on until now.
I...I thought they were just roommates!
“We’ve done all manner of investigations,” can I see them? Bobby, can you show me those investigations? May I see the raw evidence? I sure would love to see you back it up one of these days, Bobby.
This is a job for Questionably Legal Man!
I kinda feel like businesses should lose the copyright to media if they don't reasonably enable people to buy a new copy of it after some period of time, at least with stuff that can be digitized.
But actually buy it, not lease access to a live service that lets you play it once every five years. If the drm would prevent you using it, it's a poisoned product.
@@hayuseen6683 Trouble with that is that it makes almost everything on the internet public domain by default, including the entirety of RUclips. I'm not sure that's a good idea?
@@stevethepocket
How does that make everything public domain? Public domain has to do with ownership. DRM that makes software useless because they no longer have servers or file patches has zero to do with that.
@@hayuseen6683 You said "actually buy it", which is something you can't do to content that's been posted on the internet. Even if it's free, you don't own a copy of it, so by your rules, it can't be copyrighted.
@@stevethepocket
Got your context mixed up.
We're talking about commercial game products made by companies that have been out of sale for years. Emulating old console games. Because the companies arbitrarily restrict access they can't be played.
"actually buy it" - "public content even if its free you don't own a copy of it"
Content posted publicly is licensed publicly and everyone can access and retain the media legitimately. It's not gated by DRM that destroys the media once a server gets shut down, presumably. It isn't that nobody owns a copy, everyone that downloads it owns a copy.
"so by your rules it can't be copyrighted"
You forgot the rest of that sentence is "not lease access to a live service" that would end up dying. That's the point of that statement. Bought goods that self-destruct are bad. A license to the media itself, be it public or commercial, constitutes ownership. A lease to a service to access media is not ownership, and drm that eventually fails means it breaks whatever function the product has whether owned or not.
only reason dolphin is grey area is the common keys without them is 100% legeal with intial case nintendo lost and reinforced by the bleem case.
So what you're telling me that Bobby Kotik is only a fan of unions when it he benefits of it personally, and not when it is used to keep him in check?
What a shocker.
The legal issue of emulation and piracy is at least a bit thorny. The ethical aspect of it, though? Particularly as it applies to what is essentially abandonware, I think the ethical question is pretty clear.
Great work as always
Now we know, Beej, now we know.
Six days in falusia was made with soldiers in the past who were happy with the project and really wanted to have it come out.
Let's be real, the only reason music and movies/tv shows have less of a gray area with pirating is because they have good legal distribution platforms.
Games have Steam and the like, anything on those can be bought, anything that can't be bought on there or is similarly easy to access can go say goodbye to their good will from fans.
There's only so far you can expect someone to use legal channels.
The only thing stopping me from building absolutely stupid contraptions in TotK is my hoarding tendencies in games and the fact I need MUCH MORE battery power to actually POWER something absolutely stupid for more than like, two seconds. 🤣
Baptiste's bisexuality is mentioned in the game. He flirts with Lifeweaver if they're on the same side and asks him out to dinner
holy cow I think I got actual whiplash going from the reasonable response to Dolphin being taken down to the extra "Bobby Kotick is a massive prick" story
Great episode
I didn't realize that LRR had a twitchbot to give updates on when their RUclips videos dropped until today.
On the emulation thing, regarding Beej's "Well what I if I don' thave a NES?" Nintendo has allowed all their old hardware patents to lapse, and functional hardware clones are pretty damn common. Local game store has a whole shelf of the things, playing damn near every cartridge based system. These are in much cleaner legal territory because they're using hardware that the patent has expired on, and thus any yahoo with the knowhow can make, and still require the original cartridge. Note that if you have the cartridge in your house, the ROMs get much less legally questionable because of how that whole thing is set up.
That said. If Nintendo has made it impossible to legally acquire the thing from them. Not from some collector on ebay, not from some pawn shop scenario, but FROM NINTENDO, my feelings on it are that me buying it second hand has the SAME impact to Nintendo's bottom line as me pirating it, or not buying it at all. Also, there is so much functional abandonware out there (either because it's literal abandonware and NOBODY owns the rights to it anymore or because the actual rights holder has no interest in making it available on any platform or in otherwise utilizing the IP) that Emulation projects do serve a serious good.
But I think Graham and Beej are both right that it's important not to confuse "morally correct" with "legal" and it's important to be aware of the difference. To go to an example that has NOTHING to do with video games, not even allegorically, if a woman steals baby formula, what she's doing may be morally defensible, but it's still not LEGAL.
Also, Bobby, if there was never any merit to the accusations, do all of those senior developers and executives you let go have grounds for a Wrongful termination suit?
I saw six day on steam and than noticed the early access tag and thought, "dear god using early access for a war is hell real event message game seems dumb", little did I know how bad it actually was.
I'm going to need Beej to never say "jiggle your eardrums" ever again.
I'm going to need him to start saying it a hell of a lot more
To be fair, it is FAR from the worst thing he's said here.
I didn't realize Six Day in Fallujah was still in development. I remember seeing an Extra Credits video about that game something like a decade ago.
Well, to be fair, it wasn't. For a good long period of time.
And then, suddenly it was...again. So you can be forgiven for that.
I look forward to Checkpoint every week! Keep up the good work. :D
Wow... Didn't Bobby Kotick literally threaten his secretary's life?
So long as you're consulting the Spirit of the Law, can you also ask how hills affect trebuchet accuracy?
For some context Diablo 4 early access started the day of that article and he likely made sure that they hit at the same time so when blizzard is looked up Diablo 4 dominates the search and this gets hidden. I mention all this is his statement is as said in the video were messed up and wrong but it adds a level of all my employees are only numbers level of disrespect to basically not just let the devs celebrate their game coming out even if some of the practice of the game are questionable (likely all from the influence of bobby including the producer that decided they neededto be included. )
Thanks to the internet I've known Pharah was lesbian for years!
I've never played a Blizzard game past Starcraft, and *I* knew Pharah was lesbian like before Overwatch launched! Thank you for that unasked (but not undesired) for information, Internet!
Shit I didn't know that was actually Bobby K in Moneyball. I remember thinking it looked a lot like him but why the fuck would he be in a movie and I just ignored it.
Graham! A Malfeasance Road Map? I was eating.
Beej's dialogue: "older GameCube games"
Visual on screen: _Skyward Sword_
Whoops.
People on mastodon are going to be so excited to see someone saying "some guy on mastodon" like that's a well known thing.
Did Money Ball type cast Bobby Kotick?
I'm sure he thought he was playing the role of "respectable major league team owner." May their tax breaks to build their team stadiums earn them a trip to a black hole spaghettification event.
Correction. He wasn't Playing a slime ball. He was Playing himself.
Bro I coulda fuckin told you Pharah was a lesbian, she's just not getting any cause the girl she likes is hooking up with a ninja.
A beat for the algorithm (I’ve been watching all the Commander Wheel of Precons videos and am really appreciating y’all’s work)
loved the picture of mastodon the band
Even if you did have a NES Dragon Warrior III cart, you couldn't save. Or to be more accurate, you could save just fine, until you turned off the power to your NES, then your save would evaporate into the ether. There is no possibility that the battery backing up your save would still be functional.
Of course Booby is not against Unions... when they work for him. The moment his work-force is in a union that makes it harder for him, he will be actively trying to stop it. But the actors Union that he is in, that actively helps him and that he can't control out side of it. He would be all for... Fucking snake.
Some of the groups playing ARMA do scenarios with civilians but it is a closed server.
NOW WE KNOW
Nuance for the engagement god! Subs for the sub throne!
I don't think I can laugh at the 'civilian casualties' white card joke from that old episode of LoadingReadyLive anymore....
I find it odd that there are people in this world who don't want to kick Bobby Kotick square in the taint.
The Six Days in Fallujah game is so disgusting holy sh*t
Yeah you can't buy Dragon Warrior 3 for the NES, but you can buy Dragon Quest 3 for the Switch for $12 so the "who am I harming" is Square Enix who have made sure that it's available to you.
I think it's different for games that aren't easily available or where there is dispute over who owns the rights/licensing issues that stop it from being republished
So to say I agree with Beej's point but maybe poor example
Yes Beej, I too am almost 40 (checks receding hairline and salt & pepper hair)
Spicy week
Now we know.
Wait, shit, that's actually bobby kotick?
I knew I recognised, but for some reason I got my wires crossed and thought it was Robert Kraft.
I want to see a debate between Beej and James Stephanie Sterling about Nintendo.
Again, the "comedy video game news" has more in-depth, insightful coverage than actual video game news outlets.
"Entity accused" then hand gesture.
I don't think you should feel bad about pirating anything over 20 years old
Full of nuance.
So Tears of the Kingdoms is just Banjo & Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts 2 - Link's Awakening?
I want Borneo too!
(longtime W+P viewers will remember)
Build an air bike. You won't regret it.
Now we know
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Throw away my PS2 and PS3 box? Are you made PlayStation? Them be good boxes. Over my dead body!
Jiggle my drums!!