My mother was the queen of signing up for shit and then never cancelling. She paid for AOL for like four years after I moved out in college and *she didn’t have a computer*. Bought two or three years’ worth of those Columbia House or whatever DVDs that got automatically sent. Had both Comcast and Dish at the same…

Henry Cavill for CIAPHAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM.

A lot of people recommend the Eisenhord Trilogy as a good starting point to get into 40k (from a book perspective), but I take a different tack and would suggest checking out the Ciaphais Cain series of books by Sandy Mitchell, starting with “For the Emperor”. They’re, I think, the only books in the 40k canon that…

It’s all crazy nonsense, but this is a fun summary of the lore

Wh40k lore is never ending, extremely depressing, and highly addicting. I have no idea how to play, or paint, but I admire the black hole of lore and depressing official/fan art.

I mean by September this pandemic should be mostly resolve (I sure hope!)

Glad to see this blow up so much and so fast.
These guys started with something very ambitious for it’s time, the graphics were pretty janky back then but the game had so much charm everybody could see right through the budget visuals; It did exactly what it needed.
This game may not look triple-A, but I think for the…

Its just as good as i hoped for. Been playing warband since release and been waiting for this since it was first talked about. Love it.

Awesome game so far. A few game breaking bugs, but no doubt will get fixed. Bring on the mods.

Well... It's not done yet...

Sounds to me like Pitchford knew what the numbers were, and knew the bonuses wouldn’t match up to previous Borderlands releases, but he kept that to himself to keep crunching developers motivated by dreams of big payout at the end of the line.

Now I'm not advocating violence, and I'm not really down on history unless it was taught to me in an Assassin's Creed game, but I feel like this kind of behavior lead to a bunch of beheadings in France awhile back. 

Sounds like the company is trying to attach the cost of the new studio under the net gain of the game. Did they also apply the tax breaks? Plenty of shady ‘movie-accounting’ could be going on here.

Fun fact: even Adam Smith didn’t believe in greed above all else. A big caveat that lots of assholes gloss over is that Smith’s theories had a major asterisk of “under conditions of justice”, ie “working for your own good without fucking each other over.” In fact, he even predicted the rise of monopolies and…

Oh for sure, I don’t think we should completely remove capitalism. Of course unions are the solution. Otherwise, these lovely companies wouldn’t fight tooth and nail to keep their employees from unionizing.

Get rid of it? No. Leave things as they are? Definitely not.

Edit: capitalism as it is and how these people would…

Not a day goes by when I’m not entirely relieved I gave up on trying to be a game developer.

Based on personal experience, I’m going to wager they are very close to going public. Because this looks a lot like the “Fuck everyone who got us here, it’s time for the owners to get PAID” phase that typically precedes it.

I think they’re trying to thin out the veterans so they can invest in cheap, unexperienced labor. Isn't that a favorite pastime of the video game industry?

But it’s not capitalism that’s a problem. It’s that people aren’t capitalisming nicely, right? Or somehow this is “crony” capitalism (which, incidentally, is just regular capitalism) or a few bad eggs or something. Actually, I forgot. It’s the pirates who are taking food from the mouths of hard-working developers. No…

Good to know that in these uncertain times some things remain constant. The sun will rise in the morning, the Earth will still turn, Randy Pitchford will always be one of the most toxic people in the industry.