Hopefully Wilbon is somewhere taking notes.

They said no RANDOM lootboxes and characters and maps were free, but I’m sure with costume skins alone they can microtransaction the shit out of it.

I’m sorry but Banner hulking out in mid-air just makes me thing of this:

So if they’re clapping, they’re plants and Bethesda is bad. and if they’re not clapping, there is no enthusiasm and Bethesda’s bad? Got it. I mean, you know other companies have employees clapping in their pressers too, right? I daresay it’s even possible that both fans *and* employees could be clapping at the same…

Ugh. Why can people just not accept that liking or disliking something isn’t ubiquitous. Some people are really into mobile games, some aren’t. Some people are really into Bethesda, some aren’t. For all you know those people could have just been really excited to be there, so they made a lot of noise. I went to a…

Number one, I’m not carrying anyone’s water. When Bethesda fucks up, I acknowledge it. When they consistently develop and/or release top tier games over the course of more than a decade, I acknowledge it. Unless you’re seriously here to argue that Skyrim, Oblivion, Dishonored, Dishonored 2, Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein 2,…

So Bethesda fucks up the release of one game/releases a game that isn’t exactly what people expected, and you feel they should be prostrating themselves and personally apologizing to everyone who got their panties in a twist over their merely pretty decent product? They acknowledged that the criticisms were justified…

Let me see if I’ve got this straight:

The thing at this point though is that everybody knows that about Mysterio and many people are convinced he’s not a good guy...but maybe that’s the swerve here? Intentionally play against the comic nerd expectations for the twist by NOT doing the twist?

You mean you’ll keep shouting spoilers for people who haven’t read the comics like?

I’ve been talking to tonnes of my friends about this movie, without the need to share that bit of comics specific detail...

I’ll do you one better, why is James Holzhauer?

Not enough people talk about LeBron. Thanks. 

This is truly some bush league shit

Backdraft 3: The Rise of Taj (Unrated)

I find it odd that TPC, Gamefreak and Nintendo are not all the same company

I’ve been calling NBC Sports for weeks. They kept showing Hurricanes instead of the goddamn Hartford Whalers games.

Game companies made plenty of money for decades before loot boxes, they dont need them to make money. The statement is more than fair to say.

I don’t imagine you get to make much of these slippery politician calls, Jason, but it seems from the transcript it went really well. Did interviewing game industry representatives prepare you for something like this?
Also that last question! It’s great that, when you had an opening to expose the entanglement between…

I mean if that is true, maybe you shouldn’t have based your monetization strategy, therefore player progression, therefore game balance as a whole on selling loot boxes to kids.

load times actually mater. A lot of game design currently is working around loading zones and texture pop in.  Eliminating that is actually quite interesting from a dev standpoint, and changes how levels and textures are designed.