Yeah but based on how fast Kotaku is shedding writers she'll be moving on (again) in what, like a month? 

Are you serious? They would buckle eons before they would even come close to mass layoffs. A cycle of bad press, lawsuits, and little income would tank their stock value hard. If management wouldn’t step in at that point the board would or the shareholders would call a vote to replace the board with people that will…

I mean... No...

When their only real competition was Sega? I agree. After that though not so much. 

Something created by the Pokémon Company and/or Nintendo feeling behind the curve? I don't believe it one bit /s

Really depends on people’s eyes, but nothing wrong with yours. I’m the same way myself I am more likely to see a sudden change in framerate than I am going to be able to tell the difference between 30 and 60 fps.

They’ll do what literally everyone else has to do when markets shift or unforeseen circumstances make keeping their current job impossible. They will find a new job.

I definitely would. Literally every other part of the gamecube was standard console fare, so that additional feature was a really cool extra thing that they didn't have to include but did. 

As the sole speedrunner of Mercenaries 2: World In Flames (PS2 version), I get where you are coming from about wanting to present a run as perfect as possible.

Not to mention how they do the educating? Are they going to have an informational subtitle every time it displays? A bumper before episodes that feature it? Characters giving a detailed description of how it is different from the Nazi symbol?

“If it’s simple enough that the multi-billion dollar AAA company that strongly uses streaming and LPs to grow their brand can do it, why can’t everyone?”

Someone get this author a Purrlitzer Prize.

The 500k is in total, per the article. Because there are two types of people. Those who want to play and hope to win and those who only care about winning

When I was in the National Guard I may or may not have brought home a classified manual on how to use a supply ordering system from AIT. It was promptly shredded, which took hours because I couldn't burn it and had to shred all 400ish pages 20 sheets at a time

Doesn't read that way to me. Reads like writing OP's two favorite FF games are hits, and Remake and FF X-2.5 are misses. 

Your big mistake with this post is your misguided belief that hard work and having fun are mutually exclusive. I’ve done lots of hard work, including the QA work you speak of. Hell it was QA work FOR Activision.

I'd say it varies from studio to studio or publisher to publisher. I worked QA for Activision for 3 years and we almost always got the bugs we reported back to us. It just makes more sense to do that as you have the most experience with triggering it. 

If they become harder to sell because less people want them, sellers are more likely to lower the price in order to sell, therefore it lost value.

Different items gain or lose value from signatures. A baseball gains value when signed by the player because a baseball is an everyday item with no rarity or significance. I can buy as many baseballs as I want for less than 2 bucks apiece at retail. The baseball is just a spherical themed canvas for a signature at…

9 bucks for a skin?