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EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants"

Maybe, but I don't think the Saudi rulers are lead particularly by belief. That's just some physical world nonsense to keep the plebs in check.

What leads them is money, and the fear that all that oil money they've relied on for the last 100 years or so is going to run out at some point.

That's why games like It Takes Two and Mass Effect will be culled. That's why it'll be wall-to-wall live-service war-slop and sports-slop until the day everyone with even a hint of creativity quits, and then it carries on anyway in a shambling AI form. And people will still lap it up.

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What's the most entertaining "bad" movie ever made?

I think the key to a good bad movie is "I want to make a movie but I haven't got any money" or "I want to make a movie but I don't know what I'm doing" rather than "I want to make a movie but I can't really be bothered to put any effort in".

Take Plan 9 From Outer Space. There's a certain amount of charm from seeing a guy hide his face the entire movie to hide the fact that he's clearly not Bela Lugosi, the UFOs being hubcaps on fishing lines, or the fact that all the cockpit scenes appear to be in somebody's shed.