Sure, but remember that Echos and FireTVs were sold at a HUGE loss. You can’t tell me that an Echo Dot costs less than $35 to develop and manufacture. They sold them at a loss in order to saturate the market and hoped they’d figure out what to do with it before the bill came due and never did. I know FAR more ‘poor’…

The problem with all those Crypto and AI projects was that MOST of those engineers knew it was a dead end but the powers that be (clueless execs) kept hearing the buzzwords and hockey stick growth etc etc etc and pushed people to do them. Just like all the voice assistants. Amazon laid off a bunch of people from the…

Yeah he’s been hinting around at it for a while now. Between the ‘I’m Retiring’ video, and even this exact subject, he’s talked about not really WANTING to run the company long term, just to be a part of it. I’m sure he’ll still be able to veto anything he sees as against the vision of the company as well. 

On the Distraction podcast (from Defector) with Adam Conover as guest where he goes into it. Michael Schur was on a few weeks before, but the sentiment is the same. The people in charge now, the investor class, don’t give a shit about the product. They care about maximizing revenues and profits. These aren’t movie/TV…

I loved BotW and STILL think it’s overrated. I played it for like 80 hours, but it’s not ‘the greatest game ever!’ I still like Link to the Past better. Link Between Worlds is criminally underrated as well. 

That’s what I was going to say. Play dumb and ask them what ‘woke’ means in terms of climate and space, because it’s not a scientific term that you’re familiar with and would like to give them a proper informative answer.

The problem with relying on the ‘people get more conservative as they age’ was predicated on people acquiring some money and a place to live. Young people (45 and under) by and large didn’t actually acquire much money because no one raised wages in step with inflation and/or other things that outpaced inflation like…

The CEO position needs to be the first one automated.

At least this guy had the guts to say ‘Yeah, I knew what I was doing, and it was bad. I shouldn’t have done it.’ instead of that sports idiot that called Mina Kimes a slur for Asians then tried to say ‘What? No. I meant to say Mila Kunis, not Mina Kimes!’ as if that’s somehow better.

Alyx is so good. I was legitimately sad when it was over. I wanted it to keep going for another 10 hours. There’s some other good VR games. SuperHot VR is great. The Darth Vader game is awesome. Elite Dangerous with a stick and a VR set is amazing. But Alyx was the first game I was emotionally invested in that I truly…

Plus all the ‘OMG PEOPLE WON”T SPEND HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS ON JUST A VR HEADSET FOR NOTHING BUT GAMING!” when they already spend hundreds (thousands, now) of dollars on a video card for nothing but gaming. You can get a used Quest 1 for $100 on eBay and run it wirelessly to your PC or just plug it in with a USB cable…

Regardless of wage increases (which isn’t true, it just hasn’t kept up with inflation), the cost of things HAS increased. Not to defend faceless corporations and mega rich executives, but health insurance, energy, telecom fees, real estate, etc has all increased so it costs more to make a game than it did 15 years ago…

But you can only sell the to someone once. If you put the on drip feed in a monthly service, however... that’s guaranteed recurring revenue, baby! Bonuses for everyone!

I heard he hangs dong... THUNDERKOOPA!

The biggest problem I have with FromSoftware games is that I don’t have the desire to learn what to do by reading every page of every book in the game to find the lore out and guess at what I’m supposed to do next. I had Demon’s Souls and after 7 hours still had literally no idea what was going on.

I don’t think he was ‘making demands’. He said ‘This is how I do my voice. If this is good for you, then cool.’ Blame the producers, if anyone. Seth was just upfront about how is performance would be and they still hired him despite that warning.

I mean, it was awesome, and I’d love to have more, but David’s story was over and done with. I wouldn’t mind seeing some stuff with Jackie as a teenager, though. Or have some stuff with Panam, or Judy. There’s also so many people in the game that clearly have interesting lives but are only in it for a few minutes.…

So I hadn’t known this existed until I read this. I downloaded it and I think I agree with the article fully. There’s too much mobile bullshit in terms of ‘You earn Schrute Bucks to unlock this, but you get Stanley Nickels to unlock that, and it costs 5 Jim Coin to play a game. Why do mobile games need 17 different…

Other recent Sony ports have been pretty good, though. God of War, Death Stranding, Days Gone and Spiderman were all pretty excellent in terms of how they ran on PC.

My uncle worked with him at Nintendo in the late 80's.