They punch down, and then get all “OH, so it’s okay when a [insert minority group here] says it?!” when people respond with exhausted sighs instead of belly-laughter.

That’s because the jokes aren’t inspired by the need to communicate and connect, like those of actual good comedians. They’re inspired by the need to troll their imagined enemies.

It’s always interesting to watch conservatives attempt humor. The references are almost always hilariously out of date, the attempts at self-deprecation are usually painfully forced, and it comes across like they decided to improv the first take and then felt it was comedy gold that couldn’t be topped. It’s like…

As someone who works in the industry, and who has for over a decade, I find the responses you’ve received from folks like EdgelordGames, The Real Five 0, and Praetorian unfortunate. The reason I responded to you rather than them, however, is because I could consolidate my opinion on their comments into a single…

Jason, found a gif of you as a kid.

I think you are misunderstanding the role of a journalist, which is not only to inform and entertain people, but to hold powerful people accountable. There aren’t a lot of opportunities for that sort of thing in the world of video games — this is entertainment journalism, after all — but this is certainly one of them.…

IDK how old your son is, but hopefully by the time he enters the workforce, the video game industry will have moved away from forced crunch entirely. You can already feel the winds starting to shift, I think.

“Livable wage” can mean drastically different things depending on your situation. A programmer who commutes to an office in San Francisco has different needs than a programmer who works remotely in South Dakota. So medians are never really effective when evaluating this sort of thing.

making games is not a job—it’s an art

Yeah & in 4 years she'll have school paid for while the rest of them (myself included) have loans for the rest of their lives, (minus the trust fund babies).

To be perfectly honest, I felt more degraded in a minimum wage, blue-collar, low paying, service job than I ever did doing porn.