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![]() ![]() Speaking of which, one of the other major improvements over Spacelords’ original launch is a vastly faster paced, refreshing combat system. There’s a world with curious lore to dig into if you’re willing, but it can just as well be your gonzo shooting gallery. The tongue-firmly-in-cheek humor blends perfectly with the gritty weird-western story to present something that’s never too over the top or too serious. In the latter case - your crew’s pilot happens to have triplets named Huey, Dewey, and Louie. ![]() That sharp, crass wit also guides the new tutorial system, walking you through step by step with characters breaking the fourth wall in menus and explaining game-y elements like AI partners through hilarious means. Everything from fighting a foul mouthed wannabe Cthulhu to darting around shifting ruins out of Tomb Raider is on offer, made all the more memorable with jokes and snark for every hero. All these elements ensure each mission feels like its own replayable game type thanks to the diverse offerings. Killing them is worth extra points, but if they foil you, they get all the glory. It’s remarkable that each level has multiple routes and potential strategies given how much each is structured like a linear set piece.įurther bucking trends, player-versus-player is meshed into story missions, allowing for one Antagonist player to join in. Each scenario throws half a dozen new wrinkles at you, from laser-spewing crystals sending you rolling in boss fights and NPC factions duking it out in the middle of your operation to ancient demons teleporting you to another dimension to tussle with you one on one. Better yet, rather than pay for new missions or heroes, it’s exceptionally easy to earn credits for new heroes, while additional missions unlock every few levels. There also isn’t a bland overworld of copy-pasted enemies to face, but handcrafted missions like out of Syndicate or Left 4 Dead. Instead, the incentive is to build new versions as you level up, able to further max out your loadout so you can go forth and kick ass. Instead of grinding for loot, you earn crafting materials and experience just by running dailies, and you can invest each into precisely the guns and skills you want. Not aiding matters was a lackluster introduction to a litany of systems you needed to understand to play it properly, along with a starting mission that’s one of the game’s weakest scenarios.Īfter several attempts to turn things around, Mercury Steam finally opted for a relaunch that boldly just throws up its hands at what every games-as-a-service title offers. To play everything, it cost close to full retail price, but matchmaking was split across those who owned specific campaign packs. It was an interesting attempt at episodic content and monetization, but it ended up nearly killing the game. Despite its talented pedigree though, Spacelords’ launch was anything but a guaranteed success.Īs Raiders of the Broken Planet, the game was a semi-free-to-play experience where, after the initial free missions, you could pay for sets of campaign missions. All told, the title is impressively polished for a free-to-play game. It’s a third-person co-op shooter game that’s equally a brawler, tied together with an anime twist on Borderlands’ aesthetics. Software Usage Terms apply, See eu./legal for full usage rights.Ģ018 Spacelords is a registered trademark of Mercury Steam Entertainment s.Spacelords (or the game formerly known as Raiders of the Broken Planet) is easily the most uncharacteristic entry in developer Mercury Steam’s output. exclusively licensed to Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe. Library programs ©Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. See Terms of Service for more important information. If you do not wish to accept these terms, do not download this product. Ĕ configuration parameters for each weapon.ĭownload of this product is subject to the PlayStation Network Terms of Service and our Software Usage Terms plus any specific additional conditions applying to this product.Live a cinematic experience: over 80 incredible cinematic scenes will submerge you into the Spacelords universe. Mod your weapons and chose among hundreds of Cards to customize your character and create the ultimate Spacelords. Experience both sides of the story: join the Raiders in their fight to free the Broken Planet, or switch sides and foil their missions as the Antagonist. You will be able to fully progress through the entire game. Through its 4 vs 1 campaign, you experience both sides of the story: Join the Raiders in their fight to free the legendary Broken Planet, or switch sides and fight as the Antagonist alongside the invading hordes! Spacelords is a brand-new take on the shooter genre. ![]() Embark on an epic sci-fi, free-to-play adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mull called The Wing "an incubator of sorts for girlbosses". Įwens highlighted Paris Hilton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Sarah Michelle Gellar as examples of girlbosses. Maguire wrote that "Girlboss rhetoric often works to propagate sexism, racism, and class elitism, among other forms of oppression". Ewens viewed a girlboss as a multi-tasking woman who doesn't view family as a priority and "deceptively dissolves class without understanding or interacting with it". ![]() She chose June Dally-Watkins as an example of a historical girlboss. Emma Maguire, in an article for The Conversation, echoed a similar sentiment, saying that the idea of girlboss was only possible through feminist achievements. Hannah Ewens of Vice noted that, although the idea is one of the 2010s, its roots go back to the 1980s: "The Working Woman of the Thatcher and Reagan era, strutting in wearing her power suit, had both the boss and the baby on a leash". if we weren't so scared of women’s power we wouldn't need to do this, to make it more palatable by rolling it in glitter and pinkwashing it." Gargi Agrawal of Elle argued that "the idea propagates sexism, racism and class elitism." Journalist Vicky Spratt argued that the term was "a sexist Trojan horse. Mull critiqued the idea for reinforcing power structures created by men. While 'girl boss' immediately draws attention to the feminine, it also infantilizes the role of a female as a boss". Īccording to Magdalena Zawisza, associate professor of Gender Psychology at Anglia Ruskin University, "It is very difficult to escape the deeply rooted gender stereotypes, and many such linguistic attempts backfire. The reality of girlbossing, however, was always a little bit messier.The confident, hardworking, camera-ready young woman of a publicist’s dreams apparently had an evil twin: a woman, pedigreed and usually white, who was not only as accomplished as her male counterparts, but just as cruel and demanding too. In September 2021, University of Sydney Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Annamarie Jagose referenced the term while defending proposed cuts at the university, stating "Girlboss feminism? I’m not sure what girlboss feminism is." Reception and interpretations įor a time, female wealth was treated as feel-good news unto itself. A number of 2021 films and televisions series were criticised for exemplifying the term, such as Physical. In 2021, some social media influencers attempted to redefine the term as "a sort of post-ironic area in which female evil is celebrated", such as over the trial of Elizabeth Holmes. Judy Berman of Time stated that the rise of anti-capitalist sentiment among youth had turned the term "into a joke, a meme, something hopelessly cheugy." Alex Abad-Santos of Vox argued that the term has "shifted culturally from a noun to a verb, one that described the sinister process of capitalist success and hollow female empowerment," pointing to the parody phrase " Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss." ![]() According to Amanda Mull of The Atlantic, this time saw the "end of the girlboss" manifest in a "cultural pushback". ![]() Later in 2020, the George Floyd protests saw a number of high-profile women executives resign after accusations of creating toxic and racist workplaces. In early 2020, the self-regulatory organisation Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned a billboard, advertising PeoplePerHour, which read: "You do the girl boss thing we'll do the SEO thing". By 2019, the concept had begun to derive disdain from some women and viewed as ironic others still believed in its worth. Its popularity led to it becoming a "a template for marketing and writing about powerful women in virtually every industry". Its early usage was defined by perceived empowerment. The term became popular in 2014 after Sophia Amoruso used it with a hashtag prefix in her bestselling autobiography, which was adapted into a TV show of the same name. The concept's ethos has been described as "convenient incrementalism". Girlboss, also known as girlboss-ism, is a neologism popularised by Sophia Amoruso in her 2014 book Girlboss, which denotes a woman "whose success is defined in opposition to the masculine business world in which she swims upstream". Cover of Sophia Amoruso's 2014 book Girlboss which popularised the phrase. ![]() ![]() The big difference is our community-driven development model. ![]() Understanding of what functionality they really need. By having a lot of users, we have gained an excellent Hibernate is an open source solution that is as capable, usually more capable than our commercial competitors.īy being free, we have attracted a huge number of users. JPT: How would you compare Hibernate to TopLink or one of the JDO implementations? This is just great if you are trying to build I guess that's the result of intersecting entreprenuerial American business culture with the semi-structuredĪpproach to development that you find in the open source community. I have never seen such a dynamic company cultureīefore. More importantly, it's just a great place to work. That sense, JBoss is virtually the only place on earth where I am able to make a living doing the things I just Other open source companies out there are trying to make money either fromĭual licensing, or by selling packaged software or services for software that they did not actually write. So, why JBoss? Well, JBoss is almost unique in that the company actually pays for the development of the open Futher, you need to be able to get out in the field and speak to people at conferences and otherĮvents, without that being your annual leave! I'm thinking about things like 24/7 supportĪnd training courses. Your users, some of the things that they expect from commercial software. Second, you need to be able to provide to First, you need to be able toĬoncentrate, and have the open source project as your first priority. But at some point, you want to really competeįull tilt with the guys selling licenses. One of the things that makes the open source model so interesting. That is not toĭiminish the importance of volunteerism in open source indeed, it is a fundamental aspect of open source, and There is a limit to how far a project can scale, and to how well itĬan compete with commercial alternatives, when you have only volunteers working on the project. Users we have to support, in your spare time. It's simply not possible to run a project with the kind of scope that Hibernate has, or with the sheer number of ![]() JPT: Given the current buzz around Hibernate, what made you decide to join JBoss? I ended up spending more time thinkingĪbout persistence than I spent thinking about the user's problem. My inability to apply object modeling techniques to the business problem. With an Australian company called Cirrus Technologies and was very frustrated by my lack of productivity, and by Hibernate was designed as a fix for the well known problems of Entity Beans. JPT: What brought you to build Hibernate. I've just finished writing a bookĬalled "Hibernate in Action" with Christian Bauer. ![]() Ideas about persistence into the Java standards, via the JCP process. 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