Power Rangers: Battle For the Grid is a game about crossups.
While watching the eulogy to irony that is the new Mortal Kombat movie, all I could think was that I'll never understand the fighting game communities monastic dedication to having its players die poor in a ditch.
Five days a week the mantra is "Get to the bag by any means necessary." Then the bag miraculously appears and all it takes to fumble the bag is a bit of weaponised morality and "A quick google search" that has become such a ubiquitous idiot mask off phrase that the fact it still often appears in the same sentence as research would be appalling if not so consistent.
Pulling out of this event won't hurt NRS, it won't hurt the TO, it won't hurt game sales. The only people it could possibly hurt is Dominique, Arslan, and the content creators. We will ignore the hypocrisy of loot boxes targeting children, Genshin Impact gatcha or Draftkings on the NBA court, because it's cheap whataboutism, and the punish for saying that is to be reminded that the CEO's of those companies aren't, "criminals." Ok.
But what I will do is remind you that this pivot to "vision" and "professionalism" is interesting when your video game genre is based on the tentpole functionality of illegal street fighting, is famous for this, and when Sen. Joseph Lieberman tried to cancel you, the only people carrying your banner were the people who set up camp around this event that you are now abandoning for the moral high ground without the dignity of a heads up. Shameful.
And for the people keeping track, this part of the gentrification critical path is called stage setting. It's where you crouch sweep competing bidders using fear monger narratives, when in reality your first angel investor was literally satan. Look into early 2000's real estate in Brooklyn, NY for more info.
We all just want a chance to make a living doing what we love. Please meet us halfway, or we will do it the other way.
Anyway, the MK movie is shit. There are no less than 1,000,000 MK characters to choose from, and they decide to just make someone up for the movie because it "feels right." That is what I'm talking about, right there. Habitual bag droppers. Double anyway, rip TB rip TC rip Tall-T. Love is wise, hatred is foolish. Get out there and do great things, we believe in you. Also Jobs.
