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[–] [email protected] 72 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My dudes, how does wb keep making the worst decisions possible?More tax breaks? How are they making money off of this move?!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

They're making money in the short term by cutting costs. Maximizing perceived profitability likely in preparation for a sell off. You see it all the time, but it's rare to see it happen to something where the consequences of that are so public.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

WB sure would deserve it if, for instance, a hail of bricks came falling randomly out of the blue at terminal velocity to pummel all of their fancy cars to shit where they were parked at their lot.

Be sure to never ever fly a remote control drone anywhere near a premises owned by WB, kids. Wouldn't want to be implicated with a completely blameless karmic act of the gods.

Bear in mind I am specifically saying nobody SHOULD do this.

But I would find it very funny if it happened anyway :3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IDK how many bricks a drone could lift but great enthusiasm!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

oh dear oh no what if there were hundreds of drones piloted by hundreds of people wouldn't that be just awful

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Awful complicated, I feel like you're overlooking the humble trebuchet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

trebuchet would leave more evidence

less mobile than drones which can swarm in from, potentially, all directions.

also i don't think you can buy trebuchets from hundreds of stores ready to operate out of a convenient little box

furthermore once the trebuchet has fired and you have to get away, it will take quite some time to pick it up, pack it, and depart.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Gotta put it in the back of the truck or on a trailer of course!

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 61 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Don't ever buy anything from WB, got it!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

They make it so easy not to

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago

Archive.org is here to save just a thimble-full of the magic:

https://archive.org/details/robotunicornattack_flash

[–] SVcross 31 points 10 months ago

A great argument for piracy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Starting to think this is a conspiracy by Disney to make all its competitors obsolete

[–] RGB3x3 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How could this be a conspiracy by Disney? Adult Swim (Cartoon Network) is owned by WB Discovery.

Disney has zero control over this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It's just that WB has been doing stupid decisions (and mergers) for a couple years and I wanted to make a joke.

[–] SendMePhotos 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They made some pretty alright games for mobile.

[–] Skullgrid 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Jazzpunk is one of the best "point and click"* adventure games

*yeah, it's first person, but it's basically a point and click adventure, you walk around click on things and they tell jokes. what other genre does it fit into? FPS?? Well, I guess the wedding quake minigame is an FPS , but then you need to count the beat up the car minigame as a fucking fighting game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Duck game is also a lot of fun at parties.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This was my cue to redownload, thanks for commenting!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jazzpunk is one of only two games that ever made me laugh so hard I cried. The other being Octodad.

[–] BlindFrog 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I looked up octodad on steam - what's the difference between dadliest catch and student edition?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No idea. I've only played Dadliest Catch.

Edit: just looked at the Steam page, it looks like the Student Edition was the prototype game the studio made as a school project, which eventually inspired Dadliest Catch.