Following in Hiro’s footsteps from last week, I’m going to try to summarize last Friday’s Live podcast. Let’s see how well I was paying attention…
It was brought to the staff’s attention that there’s a Youtuber out there trying to keep games from getting shut down. Sadly, we didn’t have a lot of specifics, so it was a lot of casting about for how, or which games, was he trying to save. We thought, based on the current environment, that it was an effort to keep game devs from shutting down servers of beloved games that could only be played while hosted on a server. Many points were made: from how that it isn’t viable for the companies to pay for servers; why games shouldn’t be online play dependent; even how games can be patched to allow the single-player portion to be playable without internet connection.
What’s your opinion? Do you have follow-up news? Be sure to comment below.
Next up Hiro brought us news that surprised no one: Ubisoft spying on gamers…shocker. Ubisoft or Google, who’s the greater menace? Next!
Chieftain brought to the discussion the question of whether mobile gamers are “real” gamers. I’ll let the reader watch the discussion and contribute their comments below; let me just say that the hosts pretty much came to consensus.
Following this, we talked about a news article discussing how the Netflix CEO made the bold claim that his company is ‘saving Hollywood.’ by not releasing films to theater. Pfft, yeah right. We all know Hollywood is dying–for numerous reasons we’ve belabored in the past–and only Hollywood is to blame. This guy’s attitude is a perfect example. Anyway, the hosts went on to a discussion that about why theaters are dying as a side effect of streaming services.
Do you agree? Want to belabor the points? Comment below, if you please?
And now to the coup de grace…the cherry on the top…the icing on the cake.
I’m so confused…
Who’s the protagonist here? The humans? You only see them once. The Predator? You mean that person made up to look like a Klingon from Star Trek: The Next Generation? Don’t get me started. But it really does look like we’re getting a different take on the Predator, which could be interesting. Maybe it’s is a cast-off or cast-away. Maybe it’s a juvenile? Is it the first ‘she’ Predator? Well, it is the age of the girl-boss in Hollywood. Maybe that’s why it looks so different from the classic Predator–see examples A and B, below. It’ll be interesting to see if they explain it.
Topics Discussed This Live…
- YOUTUBER FIGHTS TO SAVE GAMES
- HIRO’S HARD DRIVE: UBISOFT SPYING ON GAMERS
- CHIEFTAIN’S CAMPER’S CORNER: ARE MOBILE GAME PLAYERS GAMERS?
- NETFLIX ‘SAVING’ HOLLYWOOD?
- MARINER’S SIEGE: ALIEN VS PREDATOR
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