MS isn’t pushing the smoke screen, Sony is. Sony’s complaint from top to bottom is CoD might leave our console.
And MS won’t get that much leverage from the merger. Even after the merge, MS would still only be the #3 gaming company in the world, after Tencent at #2 and Sony at #1. Sony will still have the most clout.

Whats worse is that if this merger were flipped Sony wouldn't be having even close to this level of struggle to get to the buyout completed. Even though they currently make 50% more revenue in the gaming market than microsoft does.

Yes and no, I think. I see art as a dialogue between author and reader, and yeah, readers will have salient things to say. But I don’t think “this didn’t match my reading” is a valid complaint in and of itself; rather, more apt critiques would lie in “I think this character would work better this way for this reason”…

But that’s not what the article is about, and you know it.

In the first game she had an extremely flirtatious will they/won’t they relationship with Luka. This is where Isaiah gets it wrong by labeling him a “bit character”. Given her relationship with Jeanne in 2, Bayo would be AT BEST, bisexual. That’s IF you feel the need to put a label on her sexuality, which I feel like…

But then the audience don’t get to turn around and complain that the ongoing work differed from their interpretation.

Ok, but on the flip side of that, most of the criticism came down to “BUT MY HEADCANON!!”.

Seriously. After 2016 I shut off news alerts on my phone and I kept my TV off during Election Day this year. I have friends who work in journalism covering politics and I cannot fathom in any way how they stay sane. 

I don’t see how this is some sort of “gotcha.” He can be rich and famous from the gig and also say he didn’t realize going into it how much work it would be, so he wants to stress that to people who are considering taking the job. I’m guessing you went straight to the comments from the headline and subheading, so you…

Just because you didn’t know him doesn’t mean he was unknown. The dude was already playing stadiums on sold-out tours before he got hired for The Daily Show.

says the guy, who got rich and famous hosting a comedy show.

Maybe money and fame is worth a “grind” to you. But it isn’t to most people, and maybe Trevor is beginning to think it wasn't worth it. 

He did get saddled with the 2016-2020 years, which lasted about five centuries. I don’t blame him for not wanting to deal with another Trump candidacy where the satire is real and there’s nothing you can say to mock it that won’t eventually come out of a Republican’s mouth.

lol mad about knowing what happens in a pokemon game

We should be looking at 3s and 4s. This is just another Pokemon game, except it runs like dog shit. I honestly hate how much GameFreak is getting a free pass with this stuff. The last time Pokemon innovated in any meaningful way was X and Y, and since then, the games have essentially been the same. Just replace Mega…

It is absolutely someone’s fault at GameFreak or The Pokemon Company that they’re using this crappy engine instead of a decent one, especially since Arceus had similar problems and really exposed that their current in-house engine is not up to the task. At that point any decent management would have moved to…

Anyone remember this? Probably a good thing they retired it years ago.

I assume he meant the heads of GF for not planning the games development with an existing better engine, rather than the developers themselves for their work making the actual game.

And she’s been plenty vocal about how state party leadership failed the state, too, I think to the point of adding her voice in calling for the chairman to resign.

Meanwhile the cynic in me can’t see comments like this as anything other than taking any opportunity to question the motives of someone who is a woman, a person of colour, and leftist.