11mo ago

Best headline ever rule

Yes this is an actual headline that actually ran on PC Gamer

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Andrew Wilson had some bots, EA AI O.
That line right there is comedic journalism gold.
- This is the second old mac Donald post I've seen in a row
  
  Was the other the Celine Dion one?
  
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- I now explicitly trust this writer and take his word as gospel.
- The Pulitzer should give out some other prizes, and this should get the Zinger award.
- Absolute cinema

I will never understand how EA went from the game company everyone knew and quoted with that "Its in the game!" slogan to a laughing stock and poster child of shitty studios.
- Capitalism. It corrupts everything eventually.
  Sure, I’ll concede that in the beginning you get innovation but we’re not in that place now. They actively stifle it. Look at Hollywood, you don’t see mid budget movies anymore and nobody wants to take a risk on a creative endeavour if they can make X-Men 66.
  
  You just have to look in the right place. The mid budget film became high-end TV shows on streaming services, which are allowed to innovate and experiment like crazy.
  
  Dune part 2 just came out and is a highly creative endeavor.
  Edit: If you all don't think that the version of the Dune world these movies created isn't immensely creative and unique then you are stuck up snob. Especially part 2.
  
  Ultimately the issue is greed. Capitalism is just a manifestation of that.
  
  What happens is Innovation at the start focuses on making the product better but at some point the focus changes to make more money and that's how we get there
  I feel it's logical, there is a break point where quality can't be reasonably increased to turn profit and that's when you get everything shitty with capitalism
- I mean, EA has sucked for a very long time. They bought a bunch of game studios back in the day, gutted them, and shut them down, including Origin, the studio responsible for the Ultima series, whose name EA then used for their Steam wannabe. And they ended the era of competing sports franchises by convincing multiple leagues to give them exclusive licenses.
  
  I'm still pissed that they bought and shut down Westwood Studios.
  That developer gave National Treasure Tim Curry the best line reading in history, and EA took away any chance he'd get to reprise the role:
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM
  
  Betrayal!
- EA has been shitty nearly forever, even when every game started with "Its in the game!" You probably just didn't realize it because you were a kid, but they've been hacking out shitty games and shuttering great studios for decades. They were never a mark of quality, they were the mark on the games you could find in the bargain bin at Walmart.
- They might be a laughing stock, but they absolutely print money with FIFA/EAFC. They can probably afford to not give a shit about anything else.
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