Easy Allies Podcast #247 - January 1, 2021

Jones starting off the year with a Sweeney Todd reference. I’m all about it 👍🏽

Larry DuPreez III

I can't really speak on the incident(s) that happened at Ubisoft. I get all of my news from either Frame Trap or here on the podcast. I mainly follow the FGC and if I'm not mistaken the things that went down at Ubisoft happened around the same time the FGC imploded from within which is what I thought the biggest headline was in 2020. I understand that fighting games are a niche genre from jump, but with all the sexual harassment within the Smash scene alone was my negative highlight of the year, especially considering a lot of the victims were minors if I recall. Joey Cueller (Mr. Wizard)... yeah, don't even know what to say about him. Overall it sucks that there were victims to begin with but it's great that those victims came forward.

BigBoss313

Correction on Huber saying Apple vs Epic being a Billion dollar company vs a smaller Billion dollar company. It's actually a Trillion dollar company vs a Billion dollar company.

David Sobiegraj

2014? you mean 1914?

JessieBlu

Hey Allies! Thanks for talking about Star Citizen and Squadron 42 and not just dismissing it like most other game journalists as "that scam game". As someone who has been a backer of that project since 2013 it has been quite sad to see the gaming community at large (and especially game journalists over the years) hate on the project. Since 2012, the game has never really stopped been called a scam, a feature creeped mess, a way to leech money from the "dumb" community, Very insulting stuff to both CiG working hard on making this amazing project and the fans who are considered stupid for having the audacity to support a mindblowing game in a genre that was all but DEAD as of 2012 (remember how many space games were in 2012.... it was EVE.... and nothing else). Now its true that many deadlines have been missed.... in making a game that has never even attempted to be made. Laying down a roadmap for something that has never been built before is understandably impossible. Some things are easier than expected, but other things end up harder and take longer. The thing is, when Cyberpunk 2077 released this December, much like Chris in that letter says, I am SO GLAD the project has NO REASON to stick to deadlines just to hit some MARKETING WINDOW and release UNFINISHED. WE the gamers are the publishers of Star Citizen and Squadron 42, and because of that i don't want it released in its final form till its DONE. The way Cyberpunk 2077 also kinda was praised as the next step forward for gaming and then it came out to feel like most of the internal systems from the game came out in 2011. Like the ancient use of their RPG loot system with no cosmetics. No ability to go third person. Tiered gear (two identical guns have differing stats cause one is level 5 and one is level 7) and a game that seems like it doesn't understand what makes a dynamic sandbox interesting, with barely functional AI. Yet Star Citizen started development around the same time as Cyberpunk, and since then SC has achieved some things that NO game has, despite being unfinished. Things that DO feel legit game changing going into the next gen of gaming. Like item persistence in a star system sized star system. persistence between ALL perspectives (the third person cam sees the same things that the first person cam sees which is also what other players see. No visual cheating or using the "floating arms and head" like other FPS games). Also the planet tech is just insane, and even the face blending tech is cool. For missed dates, i always take those with a grain of salt because i know the creation of this game is not easy. The want to make something truly amazing, since they have no shackles of publishers wanting to hit timeframes they can take their time. If you don't like that then STAR CITIZEN IS NEAR ALWAYS PLAYABLE, GRAB A STARTER SHIP AND PLAY NOW..... seriously if you dont want to "wait for this scam game to finish" the game is currently playable in alpha, and has been since like 2015.... As always love and respect, and also watch out for Star Citizen in the next 4 years.... as someone who has been playing the alpha since 2015, the past 2 years have seen massive leaps of progress, and 2021 and 2022 are poised to be even bigger. SC isn't going away, it is getting much, much bigger.

Gump The Great

Correction: The Christmas truce was WW1 (winter of 1914), not during WW2.

Morgan Mohalla

lol, I'm starting to think I'm being trolled... last month, my first as a podcast producer, Jones said Brian instead of Brittany for my name... this month, the "y" was left off in the copy so it was read as Brittan... at least it's almost my actual name now! (I know Jones has a very long and complex list of names to read, so just in case it was not clear I am not upset.)

Brittany Fuller

Vociferous... Yeah, I can get behind!

Cathal Fallon

Was not expecting an episode today! Cheers allies hope you had a great new years eve.

Elias sthalbrand

No link

Andreas Kleanthous

The YouTube link is last week's episode. The upload on Patreon is good though!

Andy Schreiner

I think last week's episode was reposted by mistake

Yeah... It's last weeks L&R Eps lol

Seanie Dee

Am I missing something or is this the love and respect episode we got last week?

BigTurkey

Uh... You posted last weeks I think....

Seanie Dee

Looks like you might have linked/uploaded the wrong video -- the YouTube link is just to the L&R episode.

Benjamin Schroeder