Best part about this first panel is where Prince notes that the two gangs are about to bang.

I’m awful at Dark Souls games, so I don’t play them often, but I’m going to play the crap out of this. The battle system looks fantastic.

Very true, but I think the real issue here is that devs agree to work standard, reasonable hours for their salary, regardless of what that salary might be (which might include a smaller, more tolerable crunch on occasion, it’s inevitable in a creative field). The amount of the salary isn’t relevant next to the fact…

It doesn’t matter what the dollar amount of the salary is— what matters is that devs agree to work normal hours for that salary, not 80 hour weeks that cut the value of their pay in half.

Alex deserves to be drummed out of gaming way more than other people who have recently been drummed out of gaming. He just made himself a symbol for a major flaw in this and other creative industries.

Too right. It was my first job out of school, so I knew better for the next time (actually this was the only job that ever tried to pull that crap, so I got lucky from then on).

This. I freelance now, but before that time I worked for a design company that made this common practice. The gifts were nice too, and were certainly distracting. After a particularly grueling 3-month period of bad/non-existent management wherein our small design team regularly worked 12-hour days and more than a few…

Wow. What a waste of time.

Will do Evan, cheers!

I’m one of Steve’s studio mates. Posing for reference for this book is always really funny. Steve: “ok, now turn more toward me and pretend to fuck this shoe.”

Yeah blah blah not why we fired her.....not cool Nintendo.

I used to torrent the GOG games, but it got to a point where it really was worth it to just pay the five bucks for a game and get it quickly and legally. Their ‘honor system’ and great prices kinda make me take a little pride in paying for the games. that’s just me, and I don’t judge others for file-sharing.

I’m looking forward to this so much. If it’s good and does well, not only will we have a cool new Ghostbusters movie, we’ll get all kinds of other cool stuff. Sequels, a new animated show, the works.

I honestly don’t know which I like less, this show or its objectors (probably the latter, but not by much).

I must be the only one who enjoyed the finale (the cliffhanger BS not so much). I agree ALL of the Carter eps are pretty flawed, but I’m looking forward to the next mini-season.

Restart the clock!

Oh we’ll get one, but it’ll be comprised solely of IAPs. Starring this comment means you support this idea. I’d rather die than un-gray on this one.

Score!! Enjoy them! They probably don’t quite hold up to reading them as a little kid, but I’ll bet they’re still a lot of fun. Now I’m gonna go find some copies as well :D

Haha thanks! No one else has commented on it before :). Loved Castlevania, and must’ve read Ninja Gaiden fifty times because of how much I loved the story and cut scenes from the game. I read a while back that FX Nine was chosen as a pen name so that the books would be listed and shelved near the Nintemdo books, but…

Well, Little Nemo was an early 20th century newspaper comic strip many decades before it was a video game.