Thing I wanted to add: many people in creative game disciplines - game designers and artists - are also competent storytellers and will contribute heavily to game narratives. one does not need to have a specialist discipline on staff to have a good game narrative.

disclosure: I am a game designer with a background as writer and narrative designer with 15 years of experience.

i’m not doing any of those things, so!

i want to add Gamepass is a great service but largely not useful to me as a new dad with not a lot of free time. I dont want to explore Microsoft’s menagerie, i want to go straight to the games i prioritized and set time aside for. Those games since my daughter was born have been God of War: Ragnarok, Metroid Prime…

It depends on your perspective. I will always own a Nintendo console no matter what, but if you’re more pragmatic and looking for the best coverage, owning switch in addition to a PS5 is a no-brainer. People are typically not choosing both a Playstation and Xbox like they might have in generations past.

Microsoft’s problem is there is no good reason to own an Xbox if you have a decent PC. I own a good gaming PC for work (remote game dev) even though i prefer to not game at my desk. That with a Switch and PS5 gives me all the coverage I need.

Work smarter not harder.

Well after a bit of googling, dismiss does not just merely hide things from my view like i thought they did. with apologies to the people trying to engage in good faith discussion.,there were enough rude responses that i thought i was using ‘dismiss’ to just disengage on a topic i have strong feelings about by hiding…

Do people know when you know when you use the dismiss button on them? That’s awesome, it seems some of my cute kohai are mad senpai isn’t noticing them.

lots of weird valve fanboys replying to me. spoiler: don’t waste your breath, I don’t care. The way Valve foists these ‘features’ on its partner devs is shit and as a game dev I will never stop bitching about. Valve confuses it’s end users as its customers, when their customers are actually the developers giving their…

valve needs to get rid of steam reviews for the sake of its developer partners. it’s insane that they put screaming dweebs at their point of sale. sometimes reviews are valid but this feature is largely abused by mobs in bad faith.

i can be compelled by the notion that streaming (and bananas taped to a wall) is art but it is terrible, awful art. 

i would dispute both but i’m a snob. eye of the beholder, etc etc. 

What if it's pronounced 'Balake.'

oh awesome! I really wanted Kitty but didn’t have the tokens to pay for it!

telling people to go die is unacceptable rhetoric.

It’s fun. I enjoyed it. I thought it was limited, but sometimes things don’t need to be more than that to make them valid.

Well keep in mind people dont experience these characters all it once, its a long time and her arc goes over hundreds of chapters and her arc is kind of deceptive. After the timeskip, she gets this cool glow up. There here was a moment in the series that i thought her arc might be getting over Sasuke, realizing her…

I feel like Zelda would have benefitted casting out of London rather than LA, given how many American actors they have putting on Faux-British accents.

Becoming a woke parody like this actually hurts causes for genuine social issues. you’re acting literally like that clip from the 'Amazing World of Gumball' with this 'I have Studied the Martial Ways of the Social Justice Warrior' schtick. I think i won't waste anymore time on you - dismissed.