In this case the wheel has flaws. One that isn’t a big deal in simple/old games, but is becoming increasingly memory hogging with more complicated games with more animations, and detailed textures and models.

And you know, I don’t like that saying, the wheel has been upgraded over the years. We’re far from Wagon Wheels…

They could, but they want to pursue a “unified model” approach, where the game doesn’t “cheat” by using a bunch of insanely distorted models for the first person view. They want to be able to make an animation, and have it work for everything.

Depends on the application. From a simple FPS game, not that useful. But moving into full VR and condensing production assets (that is, one set of animations for both third-person and first-person views) definitely. At present, most FPS games swap out the less specific/low-fidelity animations you might see other…

I’m late to the party, but I’m going to take a crack at number 2.

You leave my steam library out of this!

“Sex worker” covers a wider range of professions, be it stripping, prostitution, cam girls, etc. It also circumvents the negative associations a lot of people have with sex work. If you call somebody a “prostitute,” you’re often slut shaming them. But when I call somebody a “sex worker,” I’m signifying that I think…

One of my best friends in high school was a brilliant foreign exchange student from South Korea so I got to think about this a lot, actually. I noticed that while their English is very well structured, it’s very academic in nature and loses a lot of the heart of the language. The slang and quirks, ya know?

Not all sex workers are prostitutes. Cam Girls are sex workers. Strippers are sex workers. Phone sex operators (are those still a thing? I am old.) are sex workers - and none of them ever actually engage in The Sex.

Sex worker is a broad term that includes strippers, cam girls, porn stars, and yes, prostitutes. And yes, sex workers prefer to be called sex workers.

Jim doesn’t consider himself to be a part of the serious games media. He even says in the description of his YouTube description, “home of videogame not-journalist Jim Sterling,” and describes himself as a raconteur. He’s an entertainer first, and a lot of people like that.

Yes, because Valve let their shit onto get onto Steam in the first place. If Valve had so “no, that’s not fit for Steam,” none of this would have even happened.

As much as I understand your point Digital Homicide are quite insane thinking that their “Quality” games don’t deserve criticism. I remember when they put out a contest for free keys for criticizing their games but instead ban everyone who does that instead from their steam group. And reason the fact that they put out…

Soooo.. People call a shit game, made by a shady developer, a shit game, dev doesn’t like this and goes to court.. To me this feels like Mr. Dev needs to stop trying to shovel the same shit over and over again and perhaps try something different..

Its good that you are ashamed to have defended these shysters, but no, there’s only one group of sucky people in this conflict: Digital Homicide.

After all this is over with... That episode of the Jimquisition will be glorious. lol

“Stunt jump failed”???

“And then as you can see in the simulation after the incident in question the defendant got into a shootout with police, blew up a gas station with an rpg, stole a helicopter, and then parachuted onto a skyscraper...allegedly.”

The entire concept of project funding and publishing is about giving money to people who haven’t earned it yet. Kickstarter is a perfectly valid way of funding your project, provided you’re honest and realistic about what you’re doing (a caveat that could be applied to any traditional funding source as well).

How, though? - and if a developer is willing to be dishonest with reviews, who is to say they’ll be dishonest with claimed kickstarter keys?

Valve doesn’t know how to dial it back. It’s either do it stupid, or don’t do it at all. They know no other way.