swankypants.bsky.social
@swankypants.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Hahah like the hypocrisy is incredible, glad you had a good time playing the AI game tho….
December 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Don’t know who you are or the “us” you are referring to.

But what I said above is objectively 100% undeniably correct, considering we all literally just saw it happen. Not an issue of opinion, just historical fact.

What a bizarre reply…
December 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I wouldn’t confuse discourse on bluesky with an actual “consumer backlash”

Consumers showed us where they stand with arc raiders sales, E33’s accolades, etc.

Bg3 has sold 20* million and this won’t affect Divinity’s sales either way
December 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Nah the same game journalists who loudly complain here about ai are still playing e33 and voting arc raiders best of the year.

The people who purport to be against it are still playing and loving the slop regardless
December 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
That’s not true, game journalist literally just votes arc raiders multiplayer game of the year at the Game Awards
December 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is the full jury list from this year if you are interested:

thegameawards.com/voting-jury
Voting Jury | The Game Awards
Meet the distinguished voting jury for The Game Awards
thegameawards.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Awesome! I’ll be trying these out then!!
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Question: I had really fun in the campaign but have no interest in spinning up new seasonal characters. Can I play through these expansions with just my original character? Or do I need to start new ones?
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Exactly, the hardcore is fine with PCs…but most people I know who play games want to do so on their couch, not at a desk.

They have MacBooks and no reason to ever get a pc or futz around with drivers, installs etc.

Maybe the steam machine will fill that, if it’s as easy as a console to use.
December 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I imagine the venue alone is extremely expensive. The expenses for this, teamsters, labor, audio visuals, marketing, etc etc etc. I imagine hundreds, if not more, ultimately work on this in some capacity.

People would be shocked I think how expensive something like this is to put on
December 10, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Was going to bring up the Avatar fire and ash dlc coming up before remembering it was first person too lol
December 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Was at IGN for like 15 years, was their video director at one point
December 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The part of this near the end with Vrabel had me dying youtu.be/-0KHKCn8l6w?...
Drake Maye and Matthew Stafford Race for MVP | Gridiron Heights | S10 E12
YouTube video by Bleacher Report
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Similar reasons to what Stella said. Also felt so right after trying to guess what was actually going on the whole time.

Joke answer: turned out it’s an isekai and that’s Good.
November 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I was the opposite. Went from “this is a pretty good game” to “omg this might be the best game I’ve played in years” with act 3
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Yaa I’m not sure where they are! Haha probably in a school cafeteria or something!

Sorry I just bristle now whenever I see “cultural impact” being assessed because none of us know that shit anymore unfortunately (especially people on bsky).
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I don’t think I’ve seen a single thing about Kirby air riders 🤷‍♂️ which is my point, everyone is siloed now.
Silksong and E33 dominated your circles, whereas BF6 and ARC raiders have been the dominant social spaces games in others.

Remember how many ppl had never heard of Balatro before the TGAs?
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I mean how many takes did we see on here (from media and fans alike) talking about how there was no hype or enthusiasm for switch 2, only for it to have a record setting launch.
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I would agree with that but, while I would argue the old world of social media was also deficient in assessing “cultural impact” of the general public, those entire systems/ecosystems for sharing that stuff is completely shattered
November 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Tbh I think we should just put a moratorium on assessing “cultural impact”, no one actually knows that, especially on here.

For years Ive seen legions of normies get hyped for popular stuff like avatar movies, borderlands/horizon, only to come here and see ppl claim they had “no cultural impact”
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I mean …it was weird that the highest selling sports game of all time (correct me if I’m wrong?) wasn’t even nominated
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM