Sure...but then you’re putting the cost of storage directly on the customer. The Switch has 32 GB of internal memory, some of which is eaten up by the OS. Ark: Survival Evolved looks like it clocks in at about 70-80 GB without compacting files (which presumably the guys doing the Switch version will have to do) so if…

Except the Switch’s internal storage is ridiculously low, 32 GB, and some of it is taken up by the OS. The only storage expansion the Switch accepts is Micro SD cards, which are extremely expensive for storage purposes; a 256 GB card is going to be $80 minimum. Given the size of most games, the Switch can, at most,…

Except most people aren’t doing creative work. The vast majority of coders, testers, managers and the like are doing work no more creative than their peers making Office 2020 or coding the latest Apple OS. Yes, they get to work creativity adjacent, but the people with titles like UI engineer 1 or Quality Assurance…

Rest stop glory hole filled with a cock so big there’s no space on the edges. You’re welcome/I’m sorry.

But Unions aren’t artificial. They’re a natural capitalistic movement, labor looks to increase its wages in the marketplace by forcing companies to hire from them exclusively.

Game publishers are constantly looking to fuck you and the developers over while hiding their money overseas. They can afford to taking a fucking hit.

Nah, fuck off with that noise. People should work to live, not live to work. Crunch straight up destroys lives, it breaks up marriages and relationships, it destroys the bonds between parents and children, it causes people to become toxic and angry and it straight up kills people. I’ve carried the caskets of people…

So they dodged one evil(er) corporation to run into the arms of another evil(er) corporation? Smart Ubisoft, real smart.

The bulk of SAG members are not irreplaceable either, but movie studios work with SAG because stars Jennifer Lawrence and Bruce Willis are members. Most unions base their power on the fact that a few of their members are irreplaceable and that they have large numbers. If Joe Nobody playing hapless civilian #3 walks…

Before anyone says “this could never work because game developers are so expendable”, I would contend that in fact, many of them aren’t. The engine builders, the guys and gals that get deep into CPU and GPU architecture to squeeze every bit of power out of a piece of hardware are really difficult to replace. If this…

You misspelled “night”.

“No one wants to see Félix succeed more than we do, and we believe he has a bright future ahead of him.” - Dallas Fuel owner Mike Rufail, after the Overwatch League team released Félix “xQc” Lengyel when the player followed up a January suspension for homophobic remarks with a March suspension for racially…

As always, I find the definition of “binge drinking” to be ridiculous. Five beers of only 5% ABV is about the point where I’m drunk, if just getting to the point of being drunk makes you a “binge” drinker then no wonder so many people have “a problem”.

Even though it doesn’t quite look like the Hound, I love the bucket of HFC in that cosplay.

I could see giving him good striking stats, but everything else? Nah. This is really dumb.

Technically speaking, the conviction is “vacated”; it’s sort of like a pardon. Basically the conviction never happened in the eyes of the law, but Hernandez was not definitely “not guilty”. This article has a better run down:

Counterpoint: She’s one of the few interesting characters in the game. Virtually every character in the game is an archetype of a particular train of thought, representing the church, or the rogue mages, or the conservative mages, etc; Sera is some of that too, but she’s also the sort of person that is ahead of the…

While CTE certainly impairs certain brain functions, it isn’t recognized as a form of legal insanity. In order for a person to be legally insane, they have to be incapable of understanding that what they are doing is wrong. Hernandez may have regretted his decision(s), CTE was almost certainly a factor, but that…

Aaron Hernandez (I think). I can’t say for sure that he killed that guy...but it sure as hell seems like he did. The fact that later on, when he killed himself during the appeals process, he was essentially granted a status that’s not quite innocent but isn’t guilty seems right as well to me. Yes it means he “didn’t…

They signed up to do whatever the Catholic Church told them to do, and now they’re complaining about it. You don’t want to do what the church tells you to do? Then fucking quit. I get it, it sucks to move, it sucks that the convent they live in is being sold without their permission or their input...but legally the…