The fact is that it’s the only real option to deter the flow of sludge into Steam. Having someone test the hundreds of games submitted each week would be impossible without a team of hundreds or even thousands of people, a cost far more than what Valve would recoup on a per-game basis. Now, that fee doesn’t…

She posted the initial thread about the difficulties of her job on a public site with a public Twitter account and he offered a very minor and valid critique, then she blew up about it including talking about how she is in “her space” and on “her time”. If you aren’t willing to see criticism of your opinions, don’t…

Eh, nah.  QA is almost never to blame for the failures of development, guarantee QA said “this is fucked” and everyone told them it doesn’t matter, get it out the door.  (From experience, mind you)

Wow, tying your AI code to one .ini file is incredibly silly. Really, your AI shouldn’t be using external files like that anyway, too easy for them to become corrupted or changed. That’s a sign of bad coding all around, aside from the dumb typo.

Counterpoint: get yourself the adult version of a kiddie pool, a one room AC unit.  Best $250 or so I ever spent.

Then she needs to get thicker skin, or stay off of social media. Honestly, I’ve worked a lot of jobs where half of my job was to be criticized (and that’s the polite way of putting it), often for something that wasn’t my fault or that I don’t have control over. If you represent your company on social media, you need…

There’s a reason why Deadspin has a whole section called “Never Tweet”.

It’s truly shitty for the US to throw its weight around in this like this. I’m curious to read the resolution myself though, I know there are some people that support breast milk at the cost of harm to mothers who cannot provide milk and their children. There is also often a stigma associated with women who cannot…

Fuck yeah, just look at their ski team: 

Larry Nassar:

As someone with asthma, let me just tell Scott Pruit, I hope you die of AIDS-related complications and I hope it takes a very long time. I hope you get some sort of lung infection that your body can no longer fight, and that every day your breathing gets a little harder, every day your coughing up a little more phlegm…

It’s the same problem you have telling a story from an alien’s or a fantasy race’s perspective: you need to have weird, non-human stuff happen, but if you don’t explain them, then people may/will lose the plot. By explaining things, perhaps through some inner monologue of the main character, you inject the human…

Oh, PUBG is doing just fine, it’s more that the game that arguably jumped on the bandwagon after PUBG is killing them.  PUBG’s publisher did sue, then retract a lawsuit against Epic games alleging that they infringed on their copyright.

Weirdly enough, I’d say it’s anyone’s game at this point. On paper, France is the best team in the tournament and they should win it all with such paltry competition...but! Belgium just beat another very good team in Brazil, Sweden elminated by the Netherlands and Italy pre-tournament, Croatia won every game in a…

I’ve got a couple, for sheer “aww good for them” happiness, it’s hard to go wrong with Valkyria Chronicles.

Wait, it’s illegal to buy someone’s liver?  Well shit, what I am I going to do with this freezer full of them then?

The irony is that if they broke the copyright protection like that on a modern Nintendo console, Nintendo would just have them prosecuted.

Here’s the problem with the “it’s done out of passion” argument for crunch: not everyone is that into it. For someone like Hennig, who sits atop the structure and who gets a lot of control over the project, for people like her, it’s all about the passion. For the poor schmucks in QA or low ranking developers, it’s…

Probably can’t get loans. His dad is on a fixed income, so his credit is probably pretty crappy; your co-signer needs to have at least decent credit for a parent PLUS loan. Stafford loans will usually only cover about half of that $40K tuition + room and board.

I mean, I think part of it is that there isn’t a whole lot of positive queer stories out there. I know a few people who are queer and without exception they have some fucked up shit in their past, granted, straight/cis people often have fucked up shit in their past too but anecdotally and from almost every statistic…