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From: Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: Remakes, remakes, remakes
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:57:28 -0500
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Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:20:20 -0500, Spalls Hurgenson
><spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Oh, yippee.
>
>I was just watching this, about how ray tracing's biggest use case is
>to spruce up older games:
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8z-1Bqn4Rs
>
>If you want to know why everyone's still interested in older games and
>newer franchises are on the out, see other recent videos I posted
>about how DEI and related political bullshit screwed up gaming to the
>point that newer franchise ideas don't even have a remote chance of
>attracting developers talented enough to pull the execution of said
>game off.
>
>They need to stop making games under the assumption every gamer is a
>blue haired snow flake mentally ill fragile freak seeker of safe zones
>who would rather be Oprah Winfrey than Conan the Barbarian... or Conan
>the Talk Show Host for that matter.

Rin be honest, their new target audience hosts "The View", they are not
gamers.

Gaming is basically dead, but we'll still have all our old single player
games, Until MS makes them impossible to play on whatever new Windows
version they shit out.

Xocyll