In my experience:

Keep telling yourself how it is okay to crunch so you can play the game at launch without feeling guilty

Or that they are the reason they became so popular.  Lets not give them any credit on that.

I gotta say, the few friends that have opened up about Software Development crunch are way more negative about it. I wonder how much passion influences their desire to stay overtime on their own accord.

At this point they cannot delay again, as they’re into the manufacturing, marketing and distribution cycle. Whatever they’re squashing now will end being compiled into a day-one patch. At least they’re being paid for the next 6 weeks of overtime.

But they made The Witcher III, which was popular, they can do no wrong!

Debates on crunch aren’t so black and white, especially within the industry. Being more humane about crunch, and paying the overtime is pretty important; myself and my peers haven’t experienced the extreme toxic crunch that often gets reported on, nor none of us lost the drive to make games. I hear all the time that…

Fair. A good number of them most wouldn’t think twice about in competitive play, but they’re all still favorites to someone. Even Sunflora, the worst grass type.

It’s not all that much of a game development thing. If they wanted, they could’ve at least included all of gen 1 in the base game, as all models & animations added or touched up were wrapped up for them a full year before SwSh with the Let’s Go games. There’s no technical reason they couldn’t be in there.

This series is killing me! I am not surprised that most of the subjects joined this cult. I’m sorry, but they have little self awareness/shame, and most are failed actors and are blatant social climbers / star fuckers. The last episode when they get the front page of NYT - they are so freaking smug and elated -…

Honestly the missing pokemon argument never really stuck for me. 90% of those that are missing are complete crap anyways.

Th-this is my hole! It was made for me!

It’s even worse than that: they did add a hard mode in B2/W2, meaning they know that it’s something folks would enjoy, then they never did it again. And they’ve gone from making a broken EXP Share that at least was optional to making it mandatory for literally no reason.

The lack of anything resembling difficulty has kept me from pokemon for generations. They haven't even bothered adding additional modes for, you know, the millions of people that played pokemon when they were younger but are no longer actual children

Nah, it doesn’t fit the theme. Pokemon Gun.

It was on HBO a few months back. I read some summaries and watched a few YT clips and decided to skip it. It’s got a good premise but I didn’t have faith in the execution. 

The description in the article makes it sound more interesting than the actual movie. I watched it, and immediately forgot about it until this article. I watched it because someone told me, “Oh, it’s way better than the trailer looks,” and while that may be true, it’s not so good that it leaves any impact on you.

Its a significantly lesser version of Event Horizon.  

On a marketing level, they really should have embraced going all in on the similarities. A Living Board Game Cinematic Universe, if you will. Because it’s too much like Jumanji that the similarities become (I’m so sorry) the elephant in the room.  So turn into that skid.