Insomniac, the dev team behind the wildly successful Spider-Man games just had a leak. In the leak, it’s discovered that they were strong-armed by Sony (who owns Insomniac) to downsize staff despite exceeding sales targets and hitting goals. They needed to downsize to help balance Sony’s books, who have acquired a slew of failing or underperforming studios.

Sony owns Studio A, and Studio B. Studio B have underperformed for the last few years, whilst Studio A has outperformed their targets. Because of the shortcomings in Studio B, Sony are now out of pocket, even accounting for the earnings of Studio A. Studio A are forced to eliminate staff roles to make up for Studio B’s mismanagement. A well oiled and well performing Studio have to butcher their teams to balance their parent entity’s books. It’s so fucking short sighted and stupid.

This isn’t just a Sony/Insomniac issue either, I guarantee this goes on throughout the industry whenever there’s a parent company. It’s just how it will always be in those circumstances.

I tend to be pretty pessimistic about these cases. Even if the UK Govt win, Google won’t change anything, or if they do the change will be subtle enough to not have any impact

Thing is, Trump didn’t actually have a vision. He didn’t think he was going to win, and he was using the whole election as a way to enrich himself. There is no Trump vision, he plans nothing.

I’m glad this game is still getting regular support even though I’ve stopped playing. There aren’t enough games like this that stick around

I enjoyed Frasier, but not because of Frasier himself. I really enjoyed seeing the interaction between him and his brother Niles, along with Roz, Daphne etc.

So if this is just a show about Frasier, then I’m out.

I was thinking “what the hell does social justice warriors have to do with this” and then I realised ಠ_ಠ

Nobody has trust in our government. The way they’ve treated immigrants (both legal and otherwise) is abhorrent. I’m not surprised that nobody wants to come here.

Please get some help. Go somewhere, anywhere to get out of your housing situation. There are shelters, parents, relatives go stay with anyone until your back on your feet. It’s never too late to start over

Each to their own, sometimes a cosy game scratches just the right itch

Window open, door closed; window closed, door open. I do what I can to prevent unnecessary door slamming in the night caused by a draft from the window

Welsh here. Not everyone speaks it, but that’s because the English (even as late at the 1950’s) used the school system to literally beat it out of us (look up the Welsh Not). Even with that concerted effort to force the language out, it’s growing again after a few generations have passed. Being from the south, I know relatively few people who speak it fluently, but I know exactly 0 people who would actually want it abolished.

Looks like Blank Check did itself dirty!

Are there any pics of the underwater room? I’d be curious at least