KhanCipher

They lack the identity and focus of older games.

My entire thoughts on MW5:Mercs and Clans. After stumbling onto the flash in the pan that is a 9-10/10 pvp game (that happens to be stuck behindthe most meh/10 developer imo) in MWO, PGI went and spent two games trying to do everything they can to distance themselves from MWO.

You must be referring to The Clans, so this is the point that I'll say that everyone in-universe thinks that the reason why the galaxy went to shit after the Space Roman Empire fell (the original Star League) was because the Space Roman Empire fell. And everyone (namely the 5 main houses) to some degree is fighting eachother over the "right" to be the First Lord. So the Clans think this to such an extreme degree that they think the entire problem can be solved by going in, conquering Terra, and reforming The Star League, which right now is what the current era going into right now with the ilClan era.

The Clans are kinda the descendants of the original Star League, namely the military arm of it (the SLDF).

Hey now, I enjoyed my little 30 minute drive to and from work when I was working at a factory, now granted I live in a rural area, and worked night shift so it was all just 2 lane roads, and barely anyone else on the roads (besides the long line of people going to work going opposite where I was going in the mornings)

this is one of those episodes of trek where you're left wondering if you actually watched star trek at all

There's a slight problem here, this is an ENT Prime Directive episode, which considering the track record for PD episodes post TNG (which even TNG has some stinker PD episodes I would add), so this is entirely on brand by this point. Especially if you take a look at the other ~~notable~~ notorious PD episode ENT has, Dear Doctor.

Like if you go look up the scene of Archer chastising Trip in this episode, you'll find a bunch of comments about "This is why the Prime Directive exists" with zero critical thought whatsoever.

Palworld was successful enough to be seen as a threat.

Counterpoint: Digimon, which is owned by another big company, Bamco. However Bamco and Nintendo are on good relationship terms as evidenced by Smash Bros. Sony and Nintendo however, have some history with each other, history that makes them not exactly see each other on friendly terms. Let's just say that if the original playstation plans had gone through, Sony would very likely have a major ownership stake in Nintendo today.

Again so much of the advertising, and marketing of Palworld was done by Sony, so this whole case is Nintendo trying to get Sony to back down, or at least make it very costly for Sony to take any territory from them.

Game Freak/Nintendo get to destroy the competition, which is what this is really about.

Yes and no, you see Pocket Pair had partnered up with Sony, so because of that partnership Palworld is now the metaphorical equivalent of a mob family (Sony) encroaching on the territory of another mob family (Nintendo). Had Pocket Pair not partnered up with Sony, I'd bet you that Nintendo wouldn't have cared one bit.

Yes that's what the whole thing is about, it's about Nintendo protecting their territory from in their eyes a very blatant encroachment by Sony.

Another factor is the internet, you can see this in a lot of other places too, a lot more people have access to knowing what their stuff is actually worth now.

When I read what they wanted - shit that works

Here's a good way to explain the entire Reformers deal with things. The A-10 is an airframe that sorely needs an update, however it's biggest stans are reformers. The update that the A-10 by definition sorely needs, an actual radar. Yes it doesn't have one, so do you want to know how an A-10 pilot (and the reason why it's good at mulching friendly Bradleys) has to ID targets? The pilot pulls out a pair of binocs, a method that by definition wasn't good enough for the time when it started being built, yet got adopted anyways.

In short, they think it's still the 1940s, and we're still fighting WWII every single time they raise a complaint.

As someone who knows the subject matter, and about the infinite stupidity of the Reformers... I can't recommend Pentagon Wars, because the guy who actually did all the complaining about the Bradley irl (that the movie is based off of) is a reformer.

Personally, the only engineering section of a starfleet/federation ship I ever liked was the NX-01 (the Enterprise in the 09 movie is a very close 2nd place), because it actually looks the most like a god damn engineering section of a ship instead of a room with consoles and a glowing tube in the middle of it.

Not gonna lie, that looks like it'd be a pretty fun track to drive and race on.

Gaming peaked with the ~~Mega Drive~~ Playstayion 2.

Fixed that for you.