How do they “cater” to him? What do those other comic book stores do? Do they have sniff testers at the door?

Wait. Hold up. You can still get quaaludes?!

Dangerous entertainment.

I’m sure those trapped employees are really glad you’ve stopped coming to the store because of that guy.

Exercise is healthy. Sports are dangerous.

I was with you up till that “Down in front” graph. The worst behavior I’ve been subjected to at a concert is people yelling variations of that phrase at myself or other people for the offense of “dancing” at a “rock and roll show”. I agree you shouldn’t jostle your way to the front, but if you ever think “I wish that…

Draft Kings bros are hi-fiving the shit out of each other.

I think of GTA as an epic of American satire. A GTA set outside of the US would be like the Wire set outside of Baltimore. Rockstar could do an amazing open world game outside of the US, but it shouldn’t be a GTA game

I don’t think “ethics and morality” means what you think it means.

This sounds like the corporate version of that old Chris Rock routine.

The hell!? This crow stew line is full of straw men!?

I think you’re out of touch with how corporations make decisions. If I were you, I wouldn’t use terms like “stupid” and “dumb” when you’re own description of business reality is so simplistic and childlike. Maybe go with “confusing” and “incomprehensible to my ignorant mind”.

Isn’t this just a variation on the old Chris Rock routine? “I loooove New Black People...”

You’re misquoting Publishers. Publishers would say “Adventure Games are not worth the risk. Banjo-Kazooi is not worth the risk. Mega Man is not worth the risk. Another Castlevania is not worth the risk.” They are aware of the size of the audiences for these games. They are also aware of the costs of the development…

I think “Collecting Reasons” is enough.

“I’m speaking as someone whose hardware cost upwards of five grand.”

There’s gotta be some middle-ground between Sport/Not-Sport. Video games goes in that spectrum with car racing, bowling, and billiards. Physical skill is required, but athleticism isn’t much of an advantage.

If you bought, played, and platted the game and are going to buy the DLC, in what way was the released game “unacceptable”?

No Chiba, cess, doobage, or wacky tobaccky?!

True, but video games straddle the line between “cultural objects” and “consumer commodities”. They’re not totally unquanitfiable. Someone’s gotta count the frames and divide by the seconds.