It all comes down to the economics of game development, and how they’ve evolved over the past 24 years or so. Unsurprisingly, they mirror what’s been happening in the movie industry . The beancounters feel they need to keep taking bigger swings in order to recuperate dev costs, making failure all the more…

This is really, really funny.

I think the degree to which someone can be functional on K depends on tolerance, dose, and whether or not it’s combined with other drugs.

I just don’t buy into the lionization of Che. Note that he was far from opposed to mass incarceration. And yeah, totalitarian states do have a pretty bad track record — communist or otherwise.

Yeah the band’s fine. Their political acumen... not so much.

I’ve been side-eying Rage due to their Che iconography/lionization since the ‘90s, and I’m a (democratic) socialist.

Tuxes

Yeah, that guy was walking probable cause, to borrow a line from Archer.

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Here’s the thing: It’s true that this sort of toxic behaviour is par for the course in many industries. I’ve been working in one for almost two decades. And yet, I’ve always been treated respectfully when being given negative feedback.

Oh nice! The feature actually exists! Cheers!

I don’t think it’s possible to migrate your Twitter-based login without some developer modifying Kinja to allow for it.

Yeah, it’s the wildly different expectations that make this so funny to me. Gosling transformed his body, probably thinking he’d get nominated for an Oscar. Jackson just wanted a conventional leading man with proven draw.

The Ryan Gosling story’s actually pretty funny.

Also the Stoltz footage is objectively terrible. I’m not a film guy, but if I had to teach a class about the importance of casting, I’d just show Stoltz and Fox’s interpretations of ‘Marty McFly realizes he traveled back in time’ to everyone.

House of Cards was catastrophically bad. You could tell they’d lost the plot 2 seasons ago and didn’t know where to go, plus the quick pivot to edit out Kevin Spacy made things even less coherent.

Cosigned. I passed on the series when it was airing but ended up watching it on streaming because it came in so highly recommended by pretty much every friend of mine.

Lovecraft was anglophilic/racist to such an extent that he thought Swedes were subhuman. I wouldn’t be surprised if that even extended to the Welsh, Scottish and Irish.

Sometimes it takes more than one book for the author’s point of view to become apparent, too. Ender’s Game: really good, with a few questionable parts, but reasonable people can disagree.