(By Melody Werner)
As one of the twelve people who used to call Google+ their stomping grounds regarding online forums, who made a ton of long-lasting friendships/acquaintances there due to how tiny the G+ scene was, and who was rewarded for using that platform on a daily basis as one of the moderators of one of its larger, least toxic communities (despite being one for discussing comic books of all things) by having my online privacy rights neglected without any warning--I've not gone through the most at the hand of the diabolical megacorporation, but I've had enough firsthand experience with the pukers to say fuck Google.
Recently, the world has been shocked to learn that Google has begun abandoning its latest ploy to dominate in yet another field it had no business trying to take over, when they have no clue what the fuck they're doing at the best of times. If you're a Trve Gamer™, you're already familiar with the news that Google has shut down all of the game development studios they have been spending the past few years cultivating and acquiring in the name of getting its failed cloud-based subscription service, quasi-console,
Stadia. One of these developers they scarfed down before promptly realizing that--wow!--game development's costly and then callously firing everyone was
Typhoon Studios, who released the
Metroid Prime style, exploration-focused sci-fi first-person shooter,
Journey to the Savage Planet. (One could call it a Metroidprimevania, but we'd rather not.) It's a great game, oozing color and boasting a fun sense of humor--even if the word "savage" truly needs to die in the colonialist sense, which the game's attempting to critique (people gave
Kotaku shit over pointing that out, but I'd rather give them shit for disrespecting survivors all so they can get a scoop). Rather than selling Typhoon to some other omnipresent, ghoulish publisher or simply allowing them to return to independence, they
must guard the Savage Planet intellectual property like Smaug sitting on his hoard of gold. It's almost as if there's a video game which takes the piss out of corporations like Google who pretend to be your best friend before stabbing you in the back for +2% more profit. Oh yeah,
that was Journey to the Savage Planet. The fucking irony.
But is Google any different from the average corporation? Of course not. For all of the pretense of "don't be evil", they are as sinister as all of the companies they are attempting to distance themselves from when they act like they're The Good Guys™. As with all of the others, Google must be destroyed and its means of production seized by the actual workers whose lives its executives toy with so thoughtlessly. Game development is already fucking dangerous enough without megacorps like Google and Amazon getting in on the action, so if you're in that scene--get your bag, but also I hope that they continue faceplanting until they have to take the walk of shame.
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