He’s well liked because he came from the trenches and has a good track record of knowing his shit. When compared with the likes of Kotick or Guillemot, it’s a breath of fresh air (despite being such a low bar). However as one of the highest execs in the entire gaming industry, this is the kind of stuff he does all year long.

Plus you know, his public-facing image is well curated and people like it.

The Defenders ensemble cast mini-series happen between S2 and S3. That does not in fact answer your question, but hey stuff happens there.

Amazing game, but its servers are not keeping up with demand. Being too popular is a good problem to have, until it’s not.

I mean… Nothing is stopping people from setting up ad-hoc PvP matches, is there ? I think Magicka PvP started as a grassroots thing back in the day, before there even were proper arenas in the game.

I’ve been an engineering manager myself for the last 10 years and one thing I have also found is that I still like doing hands on stuff. You have to manage your own motivation, not just that of your team(s), regardless of what the “ideal way” to spend your time looks like in your environment.

Sure as a manager you have to plan, communicate, go to meetings, handle conflicts, prioritize tasks and so on. When all is said and done, keeping a slice of time doing what originally got you in the engineering business in the first place, might be just the thing that keeps you going.

Fuck me, that is some quadruple-A-level bullshit from our man Yves. I played the closed beta and I am sorry to say that this game is going to tank, hard. Its gameplay loop is waaaay too simplistic to be making those grandiose claims.

Still, it bears reiterating lest some start believing in the marketing they spin. No company or division of a company can be a friend to anyone. Even PC darling Valve isn’t ! (and I say that having spent thousands of euros on Valve’s products and services)

On the flip side, no more being “killed by the camera”.

FFS Ubisoft… I was curious but not “tolerate Denuvo”-curious.

That means the community servers running on leaked code are now the de-facto official servers, doesn’t it ?

Has such a thing ever happened before ? Usually these servers are at best ignored, and at worst being threatened or sued into shutting down.

See https://dlang.org/spec/memory-safe-d.html for details.

I switched to Jellyfin 6 months ago after a few years of Plex and did not look back.

Pros:

• Free, no paid client or subscription
• Entirely self-hosted, no account on a centralized server
• “SyncPlay” killer feature for remote watch parties

Cons:

• Media identification not as good as Plex’s, needs some massaging
• Native clients not as widespread and less mature