The underperformance of Avatar Pandora and Outlaws is pure schadenfreude for me, and I'm only disappointed that they didn't bomb harder. Obviously I'm not invested in either IP, but what I am interested in is the Tom Clancy umbrella of games, with The Division series being among them. And those two games sucked up all the veteran devs from Massive, leaving a skeleton crew of newbie devs to maintain life support for The Division 2, and only recently expanded on the lore, with a paid DLC coming up. If it weren't for those two distractions, not only will Div2 have a chance of being in a better state than it is now, Div3 will also be a lot closer to reality.

Funny thing is I disagree so much on Ubisoft’s quality (I like Rayman, Mario + Rabbids, and the Prince, everything else since Far Cry 3 has felt creatively sterile to me) and ethics (they might not be EA, Microsoft or Activision bad, but still far below what’s acceptable to me), but I agree 100% a Tencent buyout would be awful. Ubisoft’s first steps to improve their image and quality are in the right direction. That all goes down the drain if Tencent buys them. Not to put down your opinion either. Sometimes another person sees something I don’t in a game and vice versa.

Star Wars Outlaws just looks average. Beautiful environments and aliens...then bland playable character. Also terrible monetization with the pre-orders.

A beefy gaming video! Just what I was thinking. That gap in the market will grow as AAA's legs give out. We're just waiting for the ones who'll figure it out first. A cool era is wisdom based. Sharing talent and the return of community might take a little longer, but it'll be nice to see the up and corning new guys get what they're earned for once.

I didn't see the thumbnail.

Skull and Bones exists because the Singapore government funded it and contractually, they had to release something, canceling wasn't an option. It was supposed to be a Black Flag expansion that became its own game. Yes, a singleplayer pirate follow-on to Black Flag became Skull and Bones after almost a decade of development hell, getting rebooted every time the lead got changed.

And now the sweeping up for Ubisoft concerning Assassin's Creed Shadows is just Peak cringe. Ubisoft is woke as shit and they did it on purpose and pretending it's anything but it's just delusional.

Speaking of the CCP influence scandal, Elon Musk's Canadian-born mother is a spokesperson for Oppo. Meanwhile, the Conservative Party of Canada wants to hand over our wireless internet infrastructure to Elon Musk.

Jfc, and then you go and start defending communism. You wonder why you only get 250 people watching your videos.

Ubi needs to ditch Connect and Ubisoft+ it's costing too much and not making enough. They don't have enough owned IP to justify the price so what's happening is that players are paying $17.99 to play one $69.99 title and then immediately cancelling. Selling the games for $69.99 on another launcher would cut cost, improve revenue and improve sales optics for big title releases.

Not to mention, that monopolization is ultimately detrimental to the spirit of the free market. Having all these massive monolithic entities having control with a lack of competition over the market breeds stagnation, and it's a real unpleasent time.(Also, Thank you for specifiying that the People are not their government!)

Really looking forward to Mike Judge's God of War series!

Ubisoft says “gamers need to get comfortable with not owning their games.” Now Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with not receiving money. It really is that simple.

It doesn't help that Avatar has had key binding broken since the first DLC launched in July. It resets keys every launch, so your options are, play with default controls, or redo your bindings every time you launch the game. Needless to say, I've been waiting for a patch. I just hope it's eventually fixed.

well technically, Jedi Survivor and Fallen Order were EA. (I just pretend not to see the EA Logo, it makes feel better)

If game companies keep doing this it could fall apart, what I'm I saying ? It's already started .

Great video! Its so terrifying dealing with guys bc they are like this. We need to get rid of the vengeance thing yeah.

It almost seems like, when it comes to diffrent facets of childish behavior and what men and women can get away with, men get away with more childish actions (e.g. We've Seen your Boobs Song) but women get away with more childish reactions (tears, playing the victim, shaming). I think it's because men have more license to "act" overall and that can include acting childishly. But women are viewed as more acted upon and our actions justified as reactions to something external. In currrent public discourse we are still far more likely to buy a "But I had to" or "he made me" from a woman.

I've played and finished all 3 newer Tomb Raider games; LOVED them all.❤

Please understand the nuance, you are like my favorite person, I'm askin you to distance yourself from this left horseshit because they're hurting me and that makes you the enemy, im not your boss or your mom, you don't have to, and you won't, but that's what it is, I'll still listen and try to be a friend.😢

Funnily enough this morning I got a memory from a few years ago of my mother lecturing me that I'm "too nice" because I didn't go apeshit on a friend who stood me up. The friend slept in because he was working exhaustive hours in retail to pay his university fees while also trying to earn a degree. Me and him are still friends to this day, and he apologised and made up for it

Happy Monday!

6:25 that's just another example of schrodinger' masculinity in society. Where men are expected to be both emotionaly expressive and stoic. And this always depends on the woman feelings at the time. Men are expected to be both traditionally masculine and liberal.

I think it's wonderful advice to take a moment to sit with things and "come back to baseline". Certainly takes a lot of practice to put that into action. Thanks Liana, I hope you are doing ok 👍

Constructive criticism: The examples in this video were too vague. I know why it's vague. You're trying to protect the parties involved. But in this particular case the examples were too numerous and too personal to get the point across while maintaining anonymity. I haven't watched the last couple of weeks and stepping into the situation with this video it was just way too confusing with how many times this person was with that person was talking about that person but with that person for a thing, about a thing, about a thing.

The whole thing about "male tears" just seems one big "gotcha" for the militant feminists. The whole "Men should open up and not be afraid of showing vulnerability" while at the same going "Men are so pathetic, and shouldn't treat their partners like glorified therapists to cry on because Women already have alot on their plate" is just one of those things that make me go "which one is it then?!" All it is is just the trappings of the Man box, just with a few extra steps. And for what? To prove a point about male entitlement? That just seems really reductive to dismiss the problems of an individual just because of some archaic social expectations. I get it, that there are people who put on this groveling facade, and use trauma dumping and performative vunerability to excuse toxic behaviors. The whole "I was abused as a kid, so I get a get out of jail free card to act like the worse person ever, and if someone calls me out on it, I can just accuse them of bullying a trauma survivor" mentality that I've seen time and time again. At the same time, using that as an endictment towards people who are legitimately struggling and just going "Whatever, just suck it up loser" is really reductive and damaging. As for the whole "Toxic partner who expects their significant other to fight their battles for them", that seems like the aspect of toxic, abusive manipulative behavior that goes absolutetly underdiscussed when it comes to red flags to spot in a toxic relationship. Likewise I would love to see you go in depth of with the subject of "immature behavior expected in men vs women", because that's the big thing that's been bothering me about modern feminism. It's the paradox of "Women don't need men to swoop in and save the day like Underdog 24/7, we can handle ourselves" while at the same time going "Women need good men(AKA the White Knights) to come in and protect us from the dangers of the world." All it does it just makes me think that the militant feminists are okay with infanitlization when it benifits them.

In wales men cry a lot. Its not looked down on. If its happy crying , sad or what ever. Men will cry over a rugby team winning , a meal or when singing. You wont find a dry eye while singing in the mellenuim stadium. So much of this is US centric . Maybe the US could learn from other societies?

Are feelings gay

The ideas that all people cry and that one gender/sex cries more or less than the other generally, aren't mutually exclusive

Well that’s too bad, it sounds like there was some massive drama behind the scenes. Kudos to you for returning people’s money. I’m sorry Kiwifarms has decided your team member is one of its lolcows, the only thing I can suggest to them is try to be as boring and non-reactive as possible, the farmers will get bored and look elsewhere for entertainment.

Hm, the remark that "what is a woman" assumes that there is a similar definition of "what is a man", and expressions like "man up", makes me understand a little better why that is an issue at all. Let me then introduce a crazy idea that I've been practicing for my entire life (IIRC): Man: Sexually male individual of the species Homo sapiens Woman: Sexually female individual of the species Homo sapiens (It gets a little complicated in translation, because the Scandinavian languages I speak have TWO words used to label "men", where the most commonly used one is derived from a historically gender neutral word that in modern parlance is semantically closer to "person", suggesting that, at least over here, the label "woman" may have been invented to distinguish the *female party in a marriage* as the subservient party. Hi, I'm speculating out my a-word on this fine day!)

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that's rough... sorry you're dealing with all this. I'm happy to have my contribution go to something charitable instead :)

I'm sorry to hear this. We'll still be here for you, Liana.

Oh, no. I’m so sorry.

I don't often comment but, as someone who's come to enjoy your videos over the last few years, I'd like to at least show some support, immaterial as it may be. So, well, here's an internet hug!

As I wrote on the Kickstarter page, I am saddened that there is a chance this game will never see itself in a finished form as well as that I hope you at least offer what little there is of it into the public space, we dont need another factor towards that 87% figure (according to Kotaku) of games lost to time. I read about the GoFundMe and happily volunteer to have my pledge repurposed to help with it. Much love to you Liana and I hope you're doing well, considering the circumstances. I do hope there is a future for this game tho, with a better dev team, etc.

It feels really bad about this. I wasn't able to back initially but every so often i would think about this and look forward to players it once finished. Someday when you have some distance and healing time, it would be great to see if anything could come from the ashes of this project,but i get thats extremely optimistic and even if that optimism pans out it would be years from now.

Tl;dw summary of your video and channel: "I hate men reee!" "Communism rocks even though I won't last long in China." "I am a Redditor." "Shut up and consoom dont ask questions and criticize"

much love.

I came here to laugh at the downfall of another WOKE project. LoL. Go WOKE, go broke.

My heart goes out to you. I'm saddened to hear the game will not be happening of course, but more so that you had to go through this ordeal. I know dealing with this must not have been easy and making this decision must have been heartbreaking. To your credit, this is one of the best "Our project must conclude" statements I've heard in the realm of Kickstarter. I have absolutely no regrets about becoming a backer. I hope once this is fully off your plate you can find time to rejuvenate and reclaim your peace of mind. And who knows, maybe it doesn't have to be "No" but only "Not right now." But even if so, I know new adventures will rise up. I will not be asking for a refund. If these events can be routed into something positive and assisting someone in need that is a success, even if an unexpected one. Best wishes.

We're here for you friend. Take care of yourself.

That sucks to hear. When you last talked about it, you said you guys got screwed over. You can't help what you didn't do. You did your part the best you could. Being in the world is a fight. Relearning how to move forward is how it turns out. Good luck! Do what you can do. 😧👍 Also, I found out about you, because of Sparklemuffin and gaming drama. Sparklemuffin is good. ❤️

Sorry to hear about the cancelation. You make decisions based on the information you have, and no one should judge you negatively for your decision. I hope you will be able to care for yourself a little, at least. Hugs.

As long as he is 6ft tall, earns 6 figures and has 6 inches in the pants, right? GTFO with your bs

Take the time you need! I appreciate your perspective as usual.

Sorry to hear hope things pan out to a better place soon and respect for coming out publicly so rare in game dev its a shock, almost as much as its because of a trans/KIWI farms issue ? I have watched you for years but if you picked one side to 'be kind' then you should come clean over it and I as a TERF can choose to walk based on fact

I don't always see eye to eye with you but this is so heartbreaking to hear. I remember u were so excited for this game and I was excited to see how the game come out for u and your fans who bought the game. I don't really care how all this happened I am just sad to hear that this happened. I am truly sorry this happened to u guy's 😢😢😢😢

How are you doing? Hope everything's okay with you personally.