The whole “there’s too much zombie stuff” take doesn’t really sit right with me. Like, yeah, the same handful of tropes are done to death, but there’s still a fuck-ton of untapped ideas.

Once again illustrating that the root of the problem is almost always the people up at or near the top — the people who, in truth, have nothing to do with what a company or business is producing or providing, ie the least useful or valuable part of the company or business, ie its most expendable ‘employees.’

“The updated versions of these classic games did not launch in a state that meets our own standards of quality, or the standards our fans have come to expect.....but we released them because you gamers have shown you will buy any broken piece of crap day 1 lulz. We wasted so much money on QA on RDR2 for no reason!”

This stuff always starts at the top. He should have been removed as soon as this came out earlier this year.

There’s zero guarantee that the digital copies you purchase will always be available to download. At any moment, a businessman can just decide to block you from doing that, and as console generations keep marching on and digital storefronts get older and older, the chance of that happening grows and grows.

Because the police are not charged with, or trained for, the prevention of crime, only the collection of criminals and fines. We like to compare today’s cops to colonial slavecatchers, but they actually have a lot more in common with medieval Sheriffs; minor landed gentry who do all the trash work the actual nobility…

Alright. And there’s no humor in any of this. It’s fucking ridiculous that we’re still here, I’m still going to just go “Gun Control.” because there’s nothing left to be said on the matter. You fuckers have shown time and again, over and over that you can’t be responsible with firearms, so you should. not. have. them.…

Sorry, I thought you were employing some macabre gallows humor.

bUt It’S mEnTaL iLlNeSs, NoT gUnS

Gun control.

Sad that in this entire article there is no mention of Hugo Nominated Author Chuck Tingle.  

Maybe the fact that they’ve hired multiple Trump and Bush administration officials

The EEOC “requiring” ABK to engage in activity that obfuscates the investigation of CA labor department is a favor to ABK, not a penalty.

I know it’s a tangential point, and I certainly agree that Blizzard seems to be an awful company that hopefully will get what’s coming to them, but using the fact they hired “a union-busting firm” as damning evidence is... kind of scummy journalism, sorry.

I mean the comparison pictures at the bottom show noticeable visual degradation. It’s not trivial, and I’m not exaggerating: the before and the after almost look like two different console generations of the same game.

If a job requires 80+ hours a week... hire 2 fucking people. No one should EVER work that much. There is no benefit to overworking people.

Everyone knows that people love to work themselves to death so some asshole in a suit can get a bigger bonus this quarter.

If we had some sort of restriction where when the clock strikes 40 hours the servers shut down and you can’t work anymore, that would frustrate people to no end.

Across Realtime could be made into a great miniseries but one film would be pushing it.

Kudos for Across Realtime, one of my favorite books. I reread it every few years. One of the few books that makes the passage of big time seem truly long and lonely.