That's a natural cycle in the gaming industry. Every 5-10 years we'll have something big and revolutionary hit the market but in between it's the same regurgitated crap which is where we're headed. People need to be be bored and forget about the current selection of games before they become interested in a new wave of games based on something from 10 years ago.
All I can say is good riddance. I'm glad that a shitty game with an even shittier DRM practice is not rewarded. We should be happy about this.
Remember all the hub-bub that KoA was getting about even though it was single player you couldn't get 1/3 the game unless you purchased new? Yet all of a sudden, even though it's average score was a 7, it was getting rave or good comments all over every game sites message board. The astroturfing was so obvious and egregious. And the problem was, it was so prevalent and everywhere people actually genuinely believed it was a good game.
What pissed me off more though is that everyone was carrying torches the day before it was released about the DRM, and then "they just bent over and took it."
So I say good riddances and thank god. Because if that game sold well, you know damn well that would open the floodgates to needing online passes for single player games forever on...consoles!
Ugh.
Koa was an absolutely amazing game. The extra content was bound to a cd-key so present reselling used games. If you think resellers should be able to purchase used games for 10$, re-price them for $30-40 and take in double the profit compared to brand new game you're insane. I'd be pissed also if I was a publisher because you're dipping twice into the profits.
Diablo 3. Not DRM. It's a online only game, period. Whether you make your session public or private is up to you but the game is played online. This was mad very clear over a year ago. DRM is designed to stop piracy. Always online is there to combat hackers and keep the Real Money Auction House legit. If you really think it's about piracy then you're delusional.
Always online is going to become more and more common so you better suck it up now.
My daughter is autistic and to any parent that thinks it's special and thinks it's what makes their kid, their kid, "fuck you!"
This condition IS a huge part of what makes me special, bro. I will make billions of dollars in my lifetime thanks to this condition. Yes it has given me challenges, but you know what, I have benefited from learning to overcome them.
Your ignorance and stupidity is disgusting and revolting. Look in the mirror. Animals like you are driven by your fear, not facts and reason. You are so busy stampeding towards a "cure" for "autism" (who can say with certainty what the fuck autism even IS, anyway?) to fix your OWN problems (YOUR daughter and HER condition), that you would gladly, willingly, happily, ignorantly run right over and fuck over others like me in the process.
If it were up to stupid assholes like yourself, people like me would be identified at 3 years old as "autistic", then immediately put on prescription meds to "cure" us. Whole generations of minds would be fucked over and ruined thanks to the ignorance and just plain inability to think of normal simpletons with their average intelligence and average stupidity.
So as a person who is autistic, and fucking proud of it....let me the one to say: No, Anonymous Asshole.....Fuck YOU.
You obviously have a very mild case of autism. In fact you're probably not even counted in the numbers based on what you describe yourself as.
When you meet a 3 year old who suddenly stops talking and hasn't spoken a word in over 2 years come back to us and say it's a quirk that doesn't need to be resolved. Just because you have a quirky social disorder than many of us here doesn't mean Autism shouldn't be cured.
No shit. I can promise you right now if anyone ever did that to my daughter they wouldn't be breathing for long after. TSA, cop, a judge, The Pope, The Queen, I don't really care who it is they would be dead before they hit the ground. Duress is applicable when it's your child being attacked and molested.
You could teach your child proper behavioral skills instead. Fail parenting is not an excuse for your child to cause a incident.
Makes it hard for Oracle to make a compelling case that it is non-free if the man ultimately in charge of deciding doesn't know. They may well still make a compelling case, but even if they do, this admission will impact what they can claim in damages. (Google can legitimately claim that if Oracle doesn't know what it owns, Google cannot be wholly responsible for not knowing either.)
With all the different product lines over the years from Oracle's acquisitions I don't think any one person can be familiar with everything. There's just too much.
Java was a trap from day one. Unfortunately Sun couldn't enforce it once it became popular because they were bleeding $$$$ as they headed into bankruptcy.
What about BEST BUY they took the Geek Squad from good to the UP SELL Squad and caned most of the people who where real techs. Some IT Pro's used to work there part time as well a full time job. But some where along the way they stared stuff like remoteing out repair work. Moving to one repair depot that is more about moving units then fixing them right.
Also the Geek Squad should be resting / testing returns. But no they just get put back on sale with the last users data still on them.
Also the pre setup scam where they do the over priced and at times useless setup on most to all of the stock and some stores make it hard to buy them at list price.
Do you honestly believe this stuff you make up? No wonder there's so many crazies out there. Geek Squad was a 50 person company who supported the twin cities metro in Minnesota. They never left the state...
What do you think happens when a national chain like BB integrates a tech company into a services company?
I would be interested in the statistics, because I definitely will never use this feature, and in fact prefer to sync with my computer.
I only used it to retrieve my $1100 worth of music that I had lost 5 years ago when my machine fried. I backed it up to 2 different sources now and gave apple the middle finger because they couldn't flag my songs as "not downloaded". They wanted me to buy it all over again.
But god forbid you click Download All songs not on my computer. iTunes will surge up to 1gb of ram and then it will crash, corrupt and require a re-install.
It used to be split, though -- on MacOS. All sorts of different device sync functionality was covered by different software.
Apple knows how to split it. They just don't know how to split it on Windows. They're simply not good at Windows development.
(I do think the answer will be an evolution of iCloud. If you've got the iCloud control panel installed on a Windows box, that gives you a nicer route to sync the address book on your iPad with the one in Outlook, for example, plus photo stream, bookmark sync with IE, all sorts of stuff. But there's no great support for music, movie/tv, or podcast content that way.)
I don't buy that Apple can split it with MacOs but not with Windows. That's utter stupidity. Apple knows if you own a Mac and listen to music you're going to install the whole iTunes suite.
While a windows user will only install the components necessary because they don't prefer Apple...otherwise they'd have a mac. So rather than break up the installer they shove it all down your throat at once. Things like Bonjour have a memory leak so I have to disable the service everytime I update iTunes. They conveniently re-enable it.
I could go on, but it's fairly obvious Apple puts in the minimal amount of R&D to make their products work on Windows. I am curious if these apps are just as buggy on MacOs and that Apple fanatics see past it.
Why not improve the gnome classic desktop from gnome 3 instead? This zombie-gnome2 effort seems like a waste of time to me.
Well everything developed for open source is technically a waste a time. Wasn't Linux originally a waste of time? Something developed as a hobby for himself until it took off?
They don't have much experience with Missile launches either.
It appears the launch failed, the second and third stage as well as the payload fell into the sea..
As long as they can get the missle to fly from North Korea to South Korea it won't matter where it falls apart. The whole point is to prove they can nuke another country.
OS != computer. The vast majority of those boxen made for XP can in fact run Win 7 or 8. Or linux as you say. And having to pay for the upgrade is not a valid argument against since I know much much the digital tuner upgrade cost for your old tv:)
Not to mention you can buck out a few extra dollars and get a brand new machine versus paying for an upgrade. Computers are so cheap now and if you're using a 7 year old machine you do not need a $800 replacement. The cheap $2-300 computers will do just fine.
I went in looking for an ethernet card (pretty basic, right?) and the salesdroid informed me they hadn't stocked "wired networking stuff (sniff!) since October" and the manager standing right there just went "yup" and didn't seem to think it was a problem.
I went across the street to Staples to get the same card as the BB website for $9 cheaper.
You want to trash BB yet you can't even come up with a good lie. I bought a gigabit switch this weekend for my living room so I could stream off our xbox and blu-ray player.
Just because he dedicated his career to working his way up a greasy pole doesn't mean he's worth millions of dollars. The corporate world is full of sharp-elbowed ladder-climbers who don't really do anything other than angle for promotions and line their own pockets.
I've met him personally, follow him on twitter and have family members who work at Corporate. Brian Dunn is truly a good person. Unfortunately good CEO's are usually the ones who fail while the cutthroat and rude ones have success while being hated.
If you worked in the home theater department (I was in PC home/office), add high margin cabling to that.
And here is why I don't shop at Best Buy. It's not that the sales people were trying to sell me a high end cable. It is the fact that there is no HDMI cables in the entire store for less than $30. Sorry, but I will not spend $30 on any cable, for anything, ever! I don't need gold plated HDMI cables for my less than 40 inch TV.
You won't find a cheap cable anywhere unless you go to an Online retailer that makes their own cables. Blame the cable companies who lock in the prices for retailers.
If you aren't willing to pay decent (commissioned) sales staff, why have a sales staff at all?
Why not just be like Target, and have few or no salespeople? It's not like the staff at Best Buy are helpful or knowledgeable, they are one of the primary reasons people avoid the store.
It all depends on which department you shop in. Appliances, TV's, Cell phones, Magnolia home audio (if your market has it) mostly know their stuff. Computers on the other hand is a toss up. Most employees that actually know their stuff will be recruited out of the store to a non-retail company. So it's extremely hard to keep them in stores.
My problem with Best Buy is that it's such a painful experience to shop there.
The last time I was in the store, I was there on release day to buy a Kindle Fire. The saleskid made two strong attempts to persuade me to buy $200 beats headphones, like the ones he was wearing around the store, to compliment my $200 tablet. Then of course you have to contend with the hard sell on the warranty and any number of other add-ons. And heaven help you if you're buying a large electronic device, especially if you aren't all that tech savy. They sent my parents out of the store with $200 of tack on Monster nonsense. Basically, taking advantage of old people.
Best Buy needs to make their shopping experience not akin to a trip to the dentist. Stop with the aggressive push for add-ons. Stop with the gun to the head warranty pushes. (You can buy an extended warranty on a CD, did you know that?) Work on customer service. Fire the disinterested teenagers. Reward knowledgeable stales staff. Develop knowledgeable sales staff.
Basically, stop being what most people think Best Buy is. Start being what Amazon is - an easy, convenient, stress-free shopping experience.
Amazon also has less than 10% of the electronics market. People (like you) refer to Amazon as online shopping much like others say let's Google it even if you aren't using Google.
I agree with the disinterested employees as that's a global problem wherever you go. Find a solution and you're a billionaire. As far as the cable rant, give it up. Unless you can convince cable companies to sell their products for less Best Buy and others have no options but to sell them at inflated prices. It's that or sell nothing at all.
I don't believe the CC numbers are stored on the HD either. But, take the extreme view that they are, and they're stored unencrypted. It still requires someone selling/losing/stolen their Xbox HD. This will never be a pandemic problem.
And I'm sure everyone on this forums knows that the only way to truly wipe a HD requires a hammer. That Xbox HD still could have your account name/email address/password. Could lead to far more problems than just losing a CC # if that email or password is used for more than the Xbox system.
I have a better chance of stealing receipts from Target than getting them from a recently formatted Xbox. This story is being blown way out of proportion.
Have you tried playing Diablo 2 lately? The only thing you can do on it today is spam the 'n' key to clear the neverending spam. If you play in a game of 8 people, you'll be lucky to have just 1 of them be an actual person, the rest are bots hosting the run, leeching the xp, or spamming the chat log with websites.
If Blizzard were truly committed to their games, they would still be addressing live multiplayer issues. Keeping resources available for a game from not last decade, but the one prior, is not a major commitment to anything.
That's also the old battle.net. The game had a lot of client side data which could be manipulated. Fixing it would require a major re-write of something earning 0 profit.
The new battle.net and design of D3 prevents a lot of this. Not to mention they have lots of experience in combating bots. That doesn't mean they will all be gone but I'm sure they will actively ban in big groups as before.
This man more or less has the right of it. Without sales data from regular (i.e. non-Humble Bundle) games, it's kind of impossible to tell, but the Humble Bundle strikes me as a serious statistical outlier.
1) Some or all of the proceeds go to charity.
2) The sales totals are published right there on the page, making it a great place for Linux lovers to make a case that Linux users will pay for games.
3) It's DRM free.
4) It's a bunch of independent game makers, which adds another crusade-style cause to the sales and probably skews the market more than a little bit.
The Humble Indie Bundles probably say something positive about Linux gamers, but I'm not sure that they say that there's really, truly a big potential market there for major PC game developers.
Yeah, possibly $10 million in total sales over the years. That's pennies compared to what a normal publisher pulls in profit.
And I object to the other guy who said Baby Boomers watched insane cartoons. Tom & Jerry. Rocky & Bullwinkle. Mighty Mouse. Flintstones. The Jetsons. They made perfect sense storywise.
That's because thew new cartoons are being written by people with Autism. Bah dum bum!
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I agree: sometimes, you get what you pay for.
Get less, pay more? Ding!
That's a natural cycle in the gaming industry. Every 5-10 years we'll have something big and revolutionary hit the market but in between it's the same regurgitated crap which is where we're headed. People need to be be bored and forget about the current selection of games before they become interested in a new wave of games based on something from 10 years ago.
All I can say is good riddance. I'm glad that a shitty game with an even shittier DRM practice is not rewarded. We should be happy about this.
Remember all the hub-bub that KoA was getting about even though it was single player you couldn't get 1/3 the game unless you purchased new? Yet all of a sudden, even though it's average score was a 7, it was getting rave or good comments all over every game sites message board. The astroturfing was so obvious and egregious. And the problem was, it was so prevalent and everywhere people actually genuinely believed it was a good game.
What pissed me off more though is that everyone was carrying torches the day before it was released about the DRM, and then "they just bent over and took it."
So I say good riddances and thank god. Because if that game sold well, you know damn well that would open the floodgates to needing online passes for single player games forever on...consoles!
Ugh.
Koa was an absolutely amazing game. The extra content was bound to a cd-key so present reselling used games. If you think resellers should be able to purchase used games for 10$, re-price them for $30-40 and take in double the profit compared to brand new game you're insane. I'd be pissed also if I was a publisher because you're dipping twice into the profits. Diablo 3. Not DRM. It's a online only game, period. Whether you make your session public or private is up to you but the game is played online. This was mad very clear over a year ago. DRM is designed to stop piracy. Always online is there to combat hackers and keep the Real Money Auction House legit. If you really think it's about piracy then you're delusional. Always online is going to become more and more common so you better suck it up now.
My daughter is autistic and to any parent that thinks it's special and thinks it's what makes their kid, their kid, "fuck you!"
This condition IS a huge part of what makes me special, bro. I will make billions of dollars in my lifetime thanks to this condition. Yes it has given me challenges, but you know what, I have benefited from learning to overcome them.
Your ignorance and stupidity is disgusting and revolting. Look in the mirror. Animals like you are driven by your fear, not facts and reason. You are so busy stampeding towards a "cure" for "autism" (who can say with certainty what the fuck autism even IS, anyway?) to fix your OWN problems (YOUR daughter and HER condition), that you would gladly, willingly, happily, ignorantly run right over and fuck over others like me in the process.
If it were up to stupid assholes like yourself, people like me would be identified at 3 years old as "autistic", then immediately put on prescription meds to "cure" us. Whole generations of minds would be fucked over and ruined thanks to the ignorance and just plain inability to think of normal simpletons with their average intelligence and average stupidity.
So as a person who is autistic, and fucking proud of it....let me the one to say: No, Anonymous Asshole.....Fuck YOU.
You obviously have a very mild case of autism. In fact you're probably not even counted in the numbers based on what you describe yourself as. When you meet a 3 year old who suddenly stops talking and hasn't spoken a word in over 2 years come back to us and say it's a quirk that doesn't need to be resolved. Just because you have a quirky social disorder than many of us here doesn't mean Autism shouldn't be cured.
They have metal detectors and wands in MN at many sporting events and nightclubs. Been that way since the late 90's...
No shit. I can promise you right now if anyone ever did that to my daughter they wouldn't be breathing for long after. TSA, cop, a judge, The Pope, The Queen, I don't really care who it is they would be dead before they hit the ground. Duress is applicable when it's your child being attacked and molested.
You could teach your child proper behavioral skills instead. Fail parenting is not an excuse for your child to cause a incident.
He receives $1 and a handful of paper each year.
Makes it hard for Oracle to make a compelling case that it is non-free if the man ultimately in charge of deciding doesn't know. They may well still make a compelling case, but even if they do, this admission will impact what they can claim in damages. (Google can legitimately claim that if Oracle doesn't know what it owns, Google cannot be wholly responsible for not knowing either.)
With all the different product lines over the years from Oracle's acquisitions I don't think any one person can be familiar with everything. There's just too much.
Java was a trap from day one. Unfortunately Sun couldn't enforce it once it became popular because they were bleeding $$$$ as they headed into bankruptcy.
What about BEST BUY they took the Geek Squad from good to the UP SELL Squad and caned most of the people who where real techs. Some IT Pro's used to work there part time as well a full time job. But some where along the way they stared stuff like remoteing out repair work. Moving to one repair depot that is more about moving units then fixing them right.
Also the Geek Squad should be resting / testing returns. But no they just get put back on sale with the last users data still on them.
Also the pre setup scam where they do the over priced and at times useless setup on most to all of the stock and some stores make it hard to buy them at list price.
Do you honestly believe this stuff you make up? No wonder there's so many crazies out there. Geek Squad was a 50 person company who supported the twin cities metro in Minnesota. They never left the state... What do you think happens when a national chain like BB integrates a tech company into a services company?
I would be interested in the statistics, because I definitely will never use this feature, and in fact prefer to sync with my computer.
I only used it to retrieve my $1100 worth of music that I had lost 5 years ago when my machine fried. I backed it up to 2 different sources now and gave apple the middle finger because they couldn't flag my songs as "not downloaded". They wanted me to buy it all over again. But god forbid you click Download All songs not on my computer. iTunes will surge up to 1gb of ram and then it will crash, corrupt and require a re-install.
It used to be split, though -- on MacOS. All sorts of different device sync functionality was covered by different software.
Apple knows how to split it. They just don't know how to split it on Windows. They're simply not good at Windows development.
(I do think the answer will be an evolution of iCloud. If you've got the iCloud control panel installed on a Windows box, that gives you a nicer route to sync the address book on your iPad with the one in Outlook, for example, plus photo stream, bookmark sync with IE, all sorts of stuff. But there's no great support for music, movie/tv, or podcast content that way.)
I don't buy that Apple can split it with MacOs but not with Windows. That's utter stupidity. Apple knows if you own a Mac and listen to music you're going to install the whole iTunes suite. While a windows user will only install the components necessary because they don't prefer Apple...otherwise they'd have a mac. So rather than break up the installer they shove it all down your throat at once. Things like Bonjour have a memory leak so I have to disable the service everytime I update iTunes. They conveniently re-enable it. I could go on, but it's fairly obvious Apple puts in the minimal amount of R&D to make their products work on Windows. I am curious if these apps are just as buggy on MacOs and that Apple fanatics see past it.
Why not improve the gnome classic desktop from gnome 3 instead? This zombie-gnome2 effort seems like a waste of time to me.
Well everything developed for open source is technically a waste a time. Wasn't Linux originally a waste of time? Something developed as a hobby for himself until it took off?
They don't have much experience with Missile launches either. It appears the launch failed, the second and third stage as well as the payload fell into the sea..
As long as they can get the missle to fly from North Korea to South Korea it won't matter where it falls apart. The whole point is to prove they can nuke another country.
OS != computer. The vast majority of those boxen made for XP can in fact run Win 7 or 8. Or linux as you say. And having to pay for the upgrade is not a valid argument against since I know much much the digital tuner upgrade cost for your old tv :)
Not to mention you can buck out a few extra dollars and get a brand new machine versus paying for an upgrade. Computers are so cheap now and if you're using a 7 year old machine you do not need a $800 replacement. The cheap $2-300 computers will do just fine.
I went in looking for an ethernet card (pretty basic, right?) and the salesdroid informed me they hadn't stocked "wired networking stuff (sniff!) since October" and the manager standing right there just went "yup" and didn't seem to think it was a problem.
I went across the street to Staples to get the same card as the BB website for $9 cheaper.
You want to trash BB yet you can't even come up with a good lie. I bought a gigabit switch this weekend for my living room so I could stream off our xbox and blu-ray player.
Just because he dedicated his career to working his way up a greasy pole doesn't mean he's worth millions of dollars. The corporate world is full of sharp-elbowed ladder-climbers who don't really do anything other than angle for promotions and line their own pockets.
I've met him personally, follow him on twitter and have family members who work at Corporate. Brian Dunn is truly a good person. Unfortunately good CEO's are usually the ones who fail while the cutthroat and rude ones have success while being hated.
If you worked in the home theater department (I was in PC home/office), add high margin cabling to that.
And here is why I don't shop at Best Buy. It's not that the sales people were trying to sell me a high end cable. It is the fact that there is no HDMI cables in the entire store for less than $30. Sorry, but I will not spend $30 on any cable, for anything, ever! I don't need gold plated HDMI cables for my less than 40 inch TV.
You won't find a cheap cable anywhere unless you go to an Online retailer that makes their own cables. Blame the cable companies who lock in the prices for retailers.
If you aren't willing to pay decent (commissioned) sales staff, why have a sales staff at all?
Why not just be like Target, and have few or no salespeople? It's not like the staff at Best Buy are helpful or knowledgeable, they are one of the primary reasons people avoid the store.
It all depends on which department you shop in. Appliances, TV's, Cell phones, Magnolia home audio (if your market has it) mostly know their stuff. Computers on the other hand is a toss up. Most employees that actually know their stuff will be recruited out of the store to a non-retail company. So it's extremely hard to keep them in stores.
My problem with Best Buy is that it's such a painful experience to shop there.
The last time I was in the store, I was there on release day to buy a Kindle Fire. The saleskid made two strong attempts to persuade me to buy $200 beats headphones, like the ones he was wearing around the store, to compliment my $200 tablet. Then of course you have to contend with the hard sell on the warranty and any number of other add-ons. And heaven help you if you're buying a large electronic device, especially if you aren't all that tech savy. They sent my parents out of the store with $200 of tack on Monster nonsense. Basically, taking advantage of old people.
Best Buy needs to make their shopping experience not akin to a trip to the dentist. Stop with the aggressive push for add-ons. Stop with the gun to the head warranty pushes. (You can buy an extended warranty on a CD, did you know that?) Work on customer service. Fire the disinterested teenagers. Reward knowledgeable stales staff. Develop knowledgeable sales staff.
Basically, stop being what most people think Best Buy is. Start being what Amazon is - an easy, convenient, stress-free shopping experience.
Amazon also has less than 10% of the electronics market. People (like you) refer to Amazon as online shopping much like others say let's Google it even if you aren't using Google. I agree with the disinterested employees as that's a global problem wherever you go. Find a solution and you're a billionaire. As far as the cable rant, give it up. Unless you can convince cable companies to sell their products for less Best Buy and others have no options but to sell them at inflated prices. It's that or sell nothing at all.
I don't believe the CC numbers are stored on the HD either. But, take the extreme view that they are, and they're stored unencrypted. It still requires someone selling/losing/stolen their Xbox HD. This will never be a pandemic problem.
And I'm sure everyone on this forums knows that the only way to truly wipe a HD requires a hammer. That Xbox HD still could have your account name/email address/password. Could lead to far more problems than just losing a CC # if that email or password is used for more than the Xbox system.
I have a better chance of stealing receipts from Target than getting them from a recently formatted Xbox. This story is being blown way out of proportion.
Have you tried playing Diablo 2 lately? The only thing you can do on it today is spam the 'n' key to clear the neverending spam. If you play in a game of 8 people, you'll be lucky to have just 1 of them be an actual person, the rest are bots hosting the run, leeching the xp, or spamming the chat log with websites.
If Blizzard were truly committed to their games, they would still be addressing live multiplayer issues. Keeping resources available for a game from not last decade, but the one prior, is not a major commitment to anything.
That's also the old battle.net. The game had a lot of client side data which could be manipulated. Fixing it would require a major re-write of something earning 0 profit. The new battle.net and design of D3 prevents a lot of this. Not to mention they have lots of experience in combating bots. That doesn't mean they will all be gone but I'm sure they will actively ban in big groups as before.
This man more or less has the right of it. Without sales data from regular (i.e. non-Humble Bundle) games, it's kind of impossible to tell, but the Humble Bundle strikes me as a serious statistical outlier.
1) Some or all of the proceeds go to charity. 2) The sales totals are published right there on the page, making it a great place for Linux lovers to make a case that Linux users will pay for games. 3) It's DRM free. 4) It's a bunch of independent game makers, which adds another crusade-style cause to the sales and probably skews the market more than a little bit.
The Humble Indie Bundles probably say something positive about Linux gamers, but I'm not sure that they say that there's really, truly a big potential market there for major PC game developers.
Yeah, possibly $10 million in total sales over the years. That's pennies compared to what a normal publisher pulls in profit.
If refusing to pay for a sequence of bits is considered cheap, then yes, by all means, call me cheap.
Sweet. You refuse to pay for software that isn't being developed for a non-existent gaming platform. Good to know. Go buy an xbox or a mac.
I want to see it.
And I object to the other guy who said Baby Boomers watched insane cartoons. Tom & Jerry. Rocky & Bullwinkle. Mighty Mouse. Flintstones. The Jetsons. They made perfect sense storywise.
That's because thew new cartoons are being written by people with Autism. Bah dum bum!