John Carpenter, Professional Gigachad Director Lad behind The Thing, Halloween and They Live recently ‘twet’ (tweeting in the past-tense, you see) his enjoyment of Halo Infinite, praising the ‘immense beautiful production design’. Even calling it the best of the Halo series. And with fixes for the game already confirmed, seems the main issues with the game’s multiplayer will be getting ironed out, hell yeah!

“This is now a dream! Phew. Time to rewatch Prince of Darkness” – Frank O’Connor (Halo Franchise Director).

Elon Musk also commented, praising the Halo Infinite campaign, but as is mandated by the CEO of Antifa, I am legally obligated to direct your attentions to Abigail Thorn’s philosophical analysis of Elongated Musket and ‘tech-daddy‘ concepts in general… BUT! As someone with a couple mates who also like the guy, you may also have this cheeky partially-praising meme in his honor:

The Halo Infinite devs at 343 say the Big Team Battle mode should be getting fixed up this week, plus a ‘Halo Infinite Cyber Showdown’ event is dropping tomorrow!

The devs also announced a reduction in prices for the in-game micro-transaction store, which is all well and good… Though in mentioning this, I’m also divinely moved by the RNJesus Chr1st to remind y’all that while these things in moderation are fine, a lot of companies and games (cough, cough, loot box controversies) use predatory gambling techniques that tie the part of your brain that loves Overwatch skins to the part of your brain that responds to randomized Pavlovian conditioning!

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Amazon‘s foray into the world of gaming with New World has been off to a Rocky start!

First it’s removing character customization from full in-game servers, then gear clipping woes, a bug for kicking off players via messages, reducing number of players and more! Patches have fixed most of the main issues, including the most recent glitch, a method of invincibility received by moving the window of the game during play.This sparked a conversation from some (and by some, I mean Reddit and Twitter discourse) questioning whether the exploit was intentional due to Amazon being ‘client authoritative’, which isn’t exactly the most likely presumption. I watched CJ The X’s multi-hour long heavily cited deep dive into Jeff Bezos and reading Bo Burnham’s soul for filth, one of the big takeaways from that video is essentially “say what you will, but Bezos loves the customer the way a Fujoshi loves yaoi paddles“… I’m exaggerating, but not by much!

While you’re here, I’ve heard some compare New World to a ‘Colonialism simulator’, so if you want a story-based gaming experience that definitely touches on a perspective on colonialist takeover, have a butcher’s at our store for our special edition PS5 and PS4 versions of Greedfall.

On Friday, Amazon stated in an official forum site for New World that the game is ‘not client authoritative’. The statement then goes on to read as:

 ‘New World is entirely server based. At a high level the model is this: clients dispatch controller inputs to the server, and the server then checks that input for limits that might invalidate it, then if accepted uses it as an input to a character (“actor” is our internal name) within server memory’.

This ‘server based’ claim was also supported by community manager Luxendra, stating: ‘we do full physics detail for all such actions. Upon receiving the outcome, either hit or miss, the client will adjust its visual display to match what the server has determined. There are some client side tricks we use here to ‘stretch’ the animation while the client is waiting for the server answer, but the outcome is always based only on the server answer’… In lay terms ‘we do lots of checking and managing to make sure things run smoothly in-game, but at the end of the day, the server’s own analysis and outcome is king’. So, oddly enough, THANK GOD the machine didn’t pick up an issue this time round, because again, CJ’s infinite droves of galaxy-brained genius incoming, but it’s a very real possibility that cyborg transhumanism will indeed become a thing (and to a degree already is). Even Stephen Hawking and a bunch of other big-name scientists signed the Open Letter on Artificial Intelligence that essentially boiled down to “don’t fiddle too hard with Artificial Intelligence, or it may fiddle you back”… I’m exaggerating, but not by much!

As of yet, around 8% of New World players have reached max level and the game is sitting comfortably as one of Steam‘s Top 3 most played games.

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The weird PR stunt flops spectacularly, prompting staff to quickly delete the tweet.

The official Genshin Impact Twitter account announced a community challenge to celebrate hitting 2 million followers.

The challenge directed fans to follow another account, named ‘Ella Musk’ after the NPC in Genshin, who tries to communicate with hilichurls. Different ‘rewards’ (heavy on the quotation marks here) would be unlocked at different follower counts.

The official account, usually named Paimon after the traveller’s beloved companion, changed its display name to Genshin Impact. The first reward tier, unlocked at 500,000 followers, would see the name return to its original state. At one million followers, the official account would follow Elon Musk on Twitter. At three million, Musk would be invited to stream the game. Lastly, at five million followers, Musk would be invited to visit the MiHoYo headquarters.

The Paimon2TheMoon account has been around since August and currently has 62k followers. The account isn’t particularly active, so I have no idea what possessed the PR team to think this was a good idea.

The Elon Musk-related rewards only have value if you REALLY like Elon Musk, and even then, you probably don’t care about whether or not he interacts with Genshin Impact.

Not to mention, Musk (like any billionaire) is a somewhat controversial figure: some portion of the fanbase probably dislike him – meaning the ‘rewards’ are more like a deterrent.

Musk himself seemed to find the situation amusing, leading to this surreal tweet.

Can’t wait to be in Genshin Impact 🤣

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 14, 2021

The whole thing feels like a fever dream. After considerable backlash, the Genshin Impact official Twitter deleted the challenge, but fans are still revelling in the absurdity of it all.

It’s not as if I can (nor do I want to) police what content Musk enjoys, but I always find it jarring when he shows interest in my favourite anime and games. I know I’m not the only one, as the quotes of this tweet show a lot of fans expressing pure discomfort.

It never stops feeling weird when the literal richest man on Earth likes the same anime as you. I think it’s some sort of social dissonance because generally, I can relate to anime fans more than others, but I can’t quite relate to someone who has a net worth of 198B USD. It’s a strange reflection of society, and if I think about it too hard my head will hurt.

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