Exactly! It felt like I was given a reward on a timer, no matter how little effort any given reward required.

Literally have no idea why I wrote “every,” I very much meant “most.”

YESSS, I agree! I feel for the developers, because what example in-series do they have? The Adventure games mostly hold up as campy fun, and the rest of the 3d entries are awful.

I think you’re onto something in your last paragraph: straightforward levels with branching paths that end in different beats. The joy isn’t…

Congrats?

I couldn’t disagree more; Odyssey is a game obsessed with handing over the only reward it can (moons) for things as inane as “look over this ledge” or “kick this one rock.” The less the game design world copies from that game the better we’ll all be.

Unless it’s his movement, or the camera. Both of those things were…

I thought the Arbiter sections were more fun than many of the Chief sections, which felt like more of the same. 

Yeah, for sure, let’s not blame the behemoth investment group trying their level best to turn gaming into the same sort of monopolized bullshit that has destroyed cinema.

“In addition to that, she has also gone on to become something of an icon to gay gamers, something of a minor icon for the kinds of feminists that can think beyond “if this is for males, it must be destroyed”

Please point me to the feminists who think “if this is for males, it must be destroyed.” Smells to me like…

Someone says “yawn” at a ... bad take about how portraying a sex-positive woman in tight leather must be anti-feminism and ... you think they should die?

Nope, Jake A Rowling is a fucking bigot. She’s so proud to BE a bigot that she has several pictures of herself wearing a shirt that brags about being one.

You say “it’s scummy,” I say it’s a billionaire using her massive platform to spread dangerous rhetoric which has led to a measurable physical harm towards trans…

Man I’m glad I wasn’t snarky about it or I’d be really embarrassed rn.

Not sure where you got $16k, though I may have missed something. I thought the article said she was offered $4k.

If they're paying established talent peanuts then they don't care about their new worker's health. Let's not pretend this is anything other than PLEASE BUY OUR GAME

#correction: flip “Black” and “ass” in the sentence after you say typing out that quote made you laugh.

#1 - about looking like cheating, that makes a ton more sense, I must have parsed it wrong.

Fellow lifetime degen here: I find it odd how quickly people seem to be looking past Adelstein’s choice not to fold to the 10k. He’s far more experienced than her and yet tries to donk off his entire stack (well, her entire stack) into a relative noob who is presenting a believably noobish line.

Honestly I’m a bit shocked by the level of bootlicking y’all are doing. Corporations are the fucking enemy. They exist solely to exploit the labor of their workers, for which those workers are categorically underpaid.

I hope you find your way to a studio that values its devs - not for how many tickets you close per sprint, but as human beings.

Mind. Blown.

I moved to PDX from Austin in 2018. I thought “maybe they finally managed to decongest 360 and I- oh wait, it’s #1 in its category.”

I miss many things. This is not one of them.

(says the person whose new town is 9th on the same list 🤦🏽)