[BREAKING] News Thread

[Moonface]

I got curious how the area looked on Google Maps, and there's quite a few roads that go right through that proposed area. It makes me wonder how many of those will remain, and for those that will how many will retain their current use or be turned into a way to reach a parking lot or something.
Expansion was another thing I wondered too, given no Nintendo World has been announced for this yet and if it were to be added, there isn't much room to the south for an expansion and the north side is completely out of the question. Going west seems very unlikely because of the A421 being in the way. The areas to the southeast are mostly open land, but they don't form any connection to the areas shaded in red on the proposal map so I don't know if those areas could even be utilized with a connection in place, unless it'll be like Universal Orlando where you go between the two parks via a train system.

[Mr EliteL]

Dang, yeah I'll be 40 or 39 if it opens pre-July. A new theme park for UK, and nice 28,000 jobs but that number might dwindle a bit. I wasn't thinking more could be added on like a Nintendo World if they find a way to do it, that'll probably be 2040 by then.

There's two Inns nearby I saw, possibly some more and perhaps they'll add in one to the park itself, or other establishments open up as well.

[Moonface]

Dang, yeah I'll be 40 or 39 if it opens pre-July. A new theme park for UK, and nice 28,000 jobs but that number might dwindle a bit. I wasn't thinking more could be added on like a Nintendo World if they find a way to do it, that'll probably be 2040 by then.

In the time it takes for this park to open, I feel like it'd be more viable to try and save up a bit each month and just go to the Universal Studio's park in Florida instead that'll have way more to do by default, and will not only have Nintendo World but also the Donkey Kong expansion and likely another expansion on top of that one. Hopefully the UK park will get some unique rides or at least notable variants of the rides that other Universal parks already have, similar to how Disneyland Paris has rides unique to it and others that are very distinct variants of those found in other parks, such as Space Mountain.

[Moonface]

Hmm, looks like Discord finally plans to actually go public after appointing a new CEO, which is none other than former Blizzard/Activision CFO Humam Sakhnini. I didn't see positive views on the prospect back when it was just that, and it doesn't look like the sentiment has changed much. Almost every time I read comments about Discord going public it's how such a move usually means the company/product is going to start declining in quality and see itself meet the same fate as those in the same space that came before it.

I don't really have enough knowledge myself to give an opinion on Discord going public, but I can't recall any other IM platform being built with communities in mind like Discord has, so whereas in the past moving from one IM service to another just meant sharing info with your contact list on the old service before moving to the new one, moving from Discord is probably going to be a much bigger ordeal if it comes down to that for actual communities.

[Mr EliteL]

It's just good there's a proper park coming, but no doubt I'd prefer to go to Florida's over UK's, I'm not waiting until 40's or 50's before I experience them for UK.

Also darn really about Discord? Oh noes but I suppose it was bound to happen eventually (the inevitable collapse/something potentially ruining it that is). I'm out of touch of what alternatives there currently are for IMs, Discord could've remained a comfortable place for lengths of time but alas. I'll continue to use it for now obviously, just hope it doesn't come to an end all too suddenly.

[Moonface]

Also darn really about Discord? Oh noes but I suppose it was bound to happen eventually (the inevitable collapse/something potentially ruining it that is). I'm out of touch of what alternatives there currently are for IMs, Discord could've remained a comfortable place for lengths of time but alas. I'll continue to use it for now obviously, just hope it doesn't come to an end all too suddenly.

For an equivalent to it I don't know of anything; the only other IM service I know about and use is WhatsApp, although that's mainly because my class group chats get made in that otherwise I likely wouldn't have ever signed up for it.
I doubt it'll end suddenly either. It'll probably just be like Skype, MSN, YIM, etc. where they just slowly start to introduce things that feel like a step backwards. Considering Discord already has monetization stuff in place, I would expect that to be the thing that gets messed with the most in an attempt by shareholders and pencil pushers to make more money even if that outcome for them only lasts in the short term if whatever they do pushes people away.