Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

[1998]

The peak concurrent players happened six days ago instead of today, the Game Pass effect. More people treating it as a rental.

I really can't imagine this is actually profitable for them? Just allowing people to pay for a month of gamepass to beat a game at a fraction of the launch price?
MS is going to obviously end this at some point.

At least I don't see them funding these kind of games for much longer. They can get the same or more players on much lower budgets, something like TOW. Was for sure a lot cheaper to produce, and probably generated just as much if not more traffic for Gamepass.

[Rand]

I don't want ANY lords. And I don't accept any.
I am not a peasant and I won't tolerate that feudal ********.

Bow to your cosmic masters, underling. Or else.

[J1M]

The peak concurrent players happened six days ago instead of today, the Game Pass effect. More people treating it as a rental.

I really can't imagine this is actually profitable for them? Just allowing people to pay for a month of gamepass to beat a game at a fraction of the launch price?
MS is going to obviously end this at some point.

I think you underestimate how many people forget to cancel.

Also, the economics of the situation are more favorable when you contrast with something like a retail sale.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

The peak concurrent players happened six days ago instead of today, the Game Pass effect. More people treating it as a rental.

I really can't imagine this is actually profitable for them? Just allowing people to pay for a month of gamepass to beat a game at a fraction of the launch price?
MS is going to obviously end this at some point.

How do you think Netflix and other subscription services make their money? Adobe moved their photoshop and other programs to subscription long before Netflix started their streaming service.

[rusty_shackleford]

The peak concurrent players happened six days ago instead of today, the Game Pass effect. More people treating it as a rental.

I really can't imagine this is actually profitable for them? Just allowing people to pay for a month of gamepass to beat a game at a fraction of the launch price?
MS is going to obviously end this at some point.

How do you think Netflix and other subscription services make their money? Adobe moved their photoshop and other programs to subscription long before Netflix started their streaming service.

By creating very low budget slop, not creating blockbuster movies multiple times a year.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

I really can't imagine this is actually profitable for them? Just allowing people to pay for a month of gamepass to beat a game at a fraction of the launch price?
MS is going to obviously end this at some point.

How do you think Netflix and other subscription services make their money? Adobe moved their photoshop and other programs to subscription long before Netflix started their streaming service.

By creating very low budget slop, not creating blockbuster movies multiple times a year.

Well, there is a lot of indie, small, double A games that fits description of slop in gamepass, plus sometimes big games.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

The peak concurrent players happened six days ago instead of today, the Game Pass effect. More people treating it as a rental.

I really can't imagine this is actually profitable for them? Just allowing people to pay for a month of gamepass to beat a game at a fraction of the launch price?
MS is going to obviously end this at some point.

You know on face value the idea of game pass would seem like a good idea when seeing the success of streaming services like Netflix and combine with Microsoft has huge backlog of games they owned.

But I guess the reality of it that there isn’t much of great desire to use such services probably due to technological issues ( internet speeds not great for large amount of its customer base)

[Roguey]

How do you think Netflix and other subscription services make their money? Adobe moved their photoshop and other programs to subscription long before Netflix started their streaming service.

For the longest time, Netflix was kept alive by investors. A lot of Hollywood people bemoan how they replaced a model that worked (theater, home video, television) with one that didn't (streaming subscriptions).

[Faceless_Sentinel]

How do you think Netflix and other subscription services make their money? Adobe moved their photoshop and other programs to subscription long before Netflix started their streaming service.

For the longest time, Netflix was kept alive by investors. A lot of Hollywood people bemoan how they replaced a model that worked (theater, home video, television) with one that didn't (streaming subscriptions).

But Netflix streaming service was and still is profitable. Hollywood people said that putting *******, ****** and all that nonsense in the movies instead of a script and a good writing is also a good thing but look where it lead them to.

[Nooneatall]

I don't want ANY lords. And I don't accept any.
I am not a peasant and I won't tolerate that feudal ********.

Bow to your cosmic masters, underling. Or else.

This is the amazing thing about Jesus he died for everyone, including you who mock him. No human could have such love and patience. Remember this when you are in hell, you chose it.

[Rand]

Bow to your cosmic masters, underling. Or else.

This is the amazing thing about Jesus he died for everyone, including you who mock him. No human could have such love and patience. Remember this when you are in hell, you chose it.

Hell, huh? Your alleged god made it, and so wants everything to be that way.
You claim omnipotence and omniscience for that deity. That means other, less cruel methods were absolutely possible to attain the same results, but he chose this garbage. Also that he could end it instantly with zero effort.
Perhaps the things you were told were either not real or not actually good? (Or both...)
If you can't see the blatant, objective evil in that whole ideology then nothing I say can ever open your eyes.

[Nooneatall]

Bow to your cosmic masters, underling. Or else.

This is the amazing thing about Jesus he died for everyone, including you who mock him. No human could have such love and patience. Remember this when you are in hell, you chose it.

Hell, huh? Your alleged god made it, and so wants everything to be that way.
You claim omnipotence and omniscience for that deity. That means other, less cruel methods were absolutely possible to attain the same results, but he chose this garbage. Also that he could end it instantly with zero effort.
Perhaps the things you were told were either not real or not actually good? (Or both...)
If you can't see the blatant, objective evil in that whole ideology then nothing I say can ever open your eyes.

There's still time to repent

[MC_Sea]

Indiana Jones is a judische revenge-fantasy at its core and until it is stripped of that core, it will forever be boring. Jorge tried to move it from its origin with Temple of Doom and even Crystal Skull, but didn't quite manage to find the right tone. Although Temple of Doom is by far the best attempt at moving Indy away from punching Nazis.

Yup, it has been well-documented in several interviews and programs that Steven Spielberg specializes in making Jewish revenge porn. This applies to most Hollywood directors in general like Quentin Tarantino, Mel Brooks, Al Pacino, Lawrence Bender, David Weil, Frank Spotnitz, etc. They just can't help but insert themselves in everything that they are involved in.

Article from the Jewish Chronicle that explains how Indiana Jones is Spielberg's self insert:

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The first clue to Indy’s Jewishness is the actor who plays him. Harrison Ford has said, “As a man I’ve always felt Irish, as an actor I’ve always felt Jewish.” Spielberg was even going to give Indy a Jewish girlfriend when he considered Barbara Hershey for the role of Marion.

Part of the reason for casting Ford was that Spielberg tended to aim for the broadest mass appeal as a filmmaker. The actor was Jewish, but not obviously Jewish. Even the great Stanley Kubrick referred to “a Harrison Fordish goy”. Despite associating himself with Jewish charities and causes, Spielberg largely avoided Jewishness as subject matter. By casting Ford he put a seeming Wasp in the lead role, drawing attention away from his and the director’s ethnic background.

The name, Indiana Jones, is also a clue. It was originally Indiana Smith but Lucas changed it to make it more interesting. Like James Bond, Indiana Jones is one of those names that, to paraphrase novelist Michael Chabon’s remark about Clark Kent, only a Jew would pick for himself. And Indiana isn’t even his real name: it’s Dr Henry Walton Jones, Jr. Indiana Jones is a fantasy figure, the Jewish wish-fulfilment of a bright, nerdy kid, tinged with a touch of nebbishness.

For starters, Indy is an academic. Described as a “brilliant nerd who is also a badass”, he is an unlikely fusion of archaeologist, soldier of fortune and playboy — albeit a reticent one. As Sean Connery, who played his father in the third installment Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, pointed out: “Aside from the fact that Indiana Jones is not as well-dressed as James Bond, the main difference between them is sexual. Indiana deals with women shyly. In the first film, he’s flustered when the student writes ‘I love you’ on her eyelids. James Bond would have had all those young coeds for breakfast.”

Jewishness underpins all five films. Back in 1975, George Lucas approached fellow filmmaker Philip Kaufman. It was that Jewish director’s idea to have Indy search for the lost Ark of the Covenant. “There was an old doctor I went to [as a boy] in Chicago who was obsessed with the lost ark’s legendary powers,” recalled Kaufman. “And books have been written about Hitler’s search for occult artefacts.” This set up the hero vs Nazi villains storyline. Jewish screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan was then brought in to write the script.

Spielberg and Kasdan had grown up reading Mad magazine, which peppered its irreverent “sick” humour and smart movie parodies with Yiddishisms and other Jewish in-jokes. This influenced the movie. The scene in which Indy faces off a sword-twirling Arab was meant to be much more elaborate until Spielberg decided to have Indy abruptly end the duel by pulling out his pistol and shooting his opponent. He said it was inspired by Mad feature Scenes We’d Like to See.

There is also the Jewish revenge fantasy of the Ark meting out biblical justice, melting its Nazi captors and disintegrating them into nothingness. The third instalment, The Last Crusade, ends with a Nazi crumbling to dust after he tries to drink from the Holy Grail. And this is before the war and the Holocaust have even begun, as both films are set in the 1930s. “It’s not **** who foil the Nazis’ plans,” Gabriel Sanders has written, “it’s the spirit of God Himself.”

There was also an autobiography. Indy’s look was modelled on the director Spielberg. “One thing that was really unusual,” one of Spielberg’s teachers recalled, “he occasionally wore a fedora similar to the one that Indiana Jones wore. It was something you’d expect from another generation.” Spielberg himself admitted that felt he was “playing a role” when directing Raiders of the Lost Ark. “I was the Indiana Jones behind the camera,” he said in an interview with Victoria Geng in Film Comment. “Indy the hack adventurer is a bit of a self-portrait, with touches of vanity.”

And who could mistake the Jewishness of the title of the new film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny? Call your mother!

Nathan Abrams is Professor in Film, School of Arts, Culture and Language at Bangor University

[Atlantico]

I always undestood Harrison Ford saying “As a man I’ve always felt Irish, as an actor I’ve always felt Jewish.” as Ford being cynical and sarcastic as he is wont to be. He doesn't see himself as a Jew, but the **** in Hollywood do, so he's fine with it. It gets him jobs.

"Spielberg was even going to give Indy a Jewish girlfriend" -- well he did the next best thing and got him a girlfriend with a Jewish name, i.e. Karen Allen. And hey, maybe Spielberg just assumed she was juden. Hollywood has long been a "don't ask, don't tell" when it comes to yids.

If you look like one or are named like one, you'll probably pass as one. No questions asked, in Hollywood they're mostly non-religious anyway (i.e. "reformed ****")

I'm like 99% sure Hollywood gave Ingmar Bergman a shot because it sounds vaguely juden. Norman Jewison and F. Murray Abraham definitely coasted on their names to a degree.

[Tangerine]

If you look like one or are named like one, you'll probably pass as one.

It worked for Whoopi Goldberg.

[1998]

I don't have it installed anymore, but it might run better now.

New patch:

PC Specific fixes
Fixed an issue where Nvidia DLSS may cause performance problems when enabled.
Fixed an issue where Nvidia Frame Generation wasn’t activated properly if HDR is in use.
Fixed an issue where Nvidia Low Latency Mode could cause performance problems when used with Frame Generation.
Fixed an issue where global illumination may be completely disabled when playing with below minimum VRAM graphics cards.
Fixed an issue where Lighting may be over bright in interior spaces if Path Tracing (Full Ray Tracing) is set to Medium or High Quality.
Known Issue: Nvidia Frame Generation may be temporarily disabled if HDR is activated for the first time. To work around this issue, disable and then re-enable DLSS. This only needs to be done once.

[Gastrick]

How do you think Netflix and other subscription services make their money? Adobe moved their photoshop and other programs to subscription long before Netflix started their streaming service.

For the longest time, Netflix was kept alive by investors. A lot of Hollywood people bemoan how they replaced a model that worked (theater, home video, television) with one that didn't (streaming subscriptions).

It wasn't competition from those other streaming services popping up hurting their bottom line as opposed to originally having their monopoly?

[Jordy]

I always undestood Harrison Ford saying “As a man I’ve always felt Irish, as an actor I’ve always felt Jewish.” as Ford being cynical and sarcastic as he is wont to be. He doesn't see himself as a Jew, but the **** in Hollywood do, so he's fine with it. It gets him jobs.

"Spielberg was even going to give Indy a Jewish girlfriend" -- well he did the next best thing and got him a girlfriend with a Jewish name, i.e. Karen Allen. And hey, maybe Spielberg just assumed she was juden. Hollywood has long been a "don't ask, don't tell" when it comes to yids.

If you look like one or are named like one, you'll probably pass as one. No questions asked, in Hollywood they're mostly non-religious anyway (i.e. "reformed ****")

I'm like 99% sure Hollywood gave Ingmar Bergman a shot because it sounds vaguely juden. Norman Jewison and F. Murray Abraham definitely coasted on their names to a degree.

If you look like one or are named like one, you'll probably pass as one.

It worked for Whoopi Goldberg.

"Her film breakthrough came in 1985 with her role as Celie, a mistreated woman in the Deep South, in Steven Spielberg's period drama film The Color Purple"