C-level employees are the most useless people on planet Earth.

“Non of ya’ll are gonna like me saying this”

You’re right, but not for the reason you think.

This comment continues to age like a fine wine.

Bingo.  Absolutely nailed it.

“But the exact amount of the raises will vary depending on the employee’s position at the company, sources said. According to the worker group ABetterUbisoft, junior staff will receive a 5-7% increase, while the most senior staff could see their pay increased by up to 20%. That would mean a lower-level developer might…

Large companies are no longer interested in making merely SOME of The Money (TM), they are exclusively interested in making ALL of The Money (TM).

Anything that doesn’t accomplish that singular goal is at risk of termination.  Steady, mild success is seen essentially as failure.

Bingo. And frankly this isn’t even a hiccup to them. They stopped competing with Xbox and PS fifteen years ago.  Nintendo’s success metrics are their own.  They aren’t in the console war business anymore, and it’s always weird to see people try to shoehorn them into it.

“Smash has a reason to look over their shoulder.”

It really doesn’t.

Take away all the (very sound) arguments about the number of copies Smash Ultimate has sold (22 million)...and you are still left with the fact that Smash (meaning: Nintendo) does not care about the competitive scene. At all.

As far as they are…

“After All” is genuinely good (those jazz chord changes are perfection)...until the drum machine kicks in and completely ruins it.

Pull that out, get the stupid fucking voice modulation effect out of there, and let the song be the ballad it clearly wants to be and it’s golden.  Stop over-producing shit!

“I mean...if there was a benefit of a doubt I’d give it to him, but I simply can’t find one.”

That’s on you, not anyone else.

Mob mentality has literally never served anyone well. Ever.

No one is defending him, and people like you continuing to insist they are is almost Trumpian.  All anyone is doing is noting that this…

Yeah that was particularly disingenuous, but Jezebel basically isn’t even trying anymore.

“But maybe don’t make the previous life you chose for yourself and your ex-wife seem less than the one you have chosen now.”

When did that happen in the interview?

Maybe actually watch the thing you’re railing against first?  Just a thought.

Precisely this.

We know nothing. We’re just assuming she’s blameless in this because....reasons?

Great.

“It seems like a lot of comedians use humor as a coping mechanism; I wouldn’t ever take one laughing about something serious as a sign that they’re fine.”

Bingo.  People don’t think about this...basically ever.  But a LOT of comedians are this way.  A great many of them wrestle with demons we’ll never know the full…

You should see a therapist if you aren’t already.

“The game relies on experimentation more than an adequate tutorial introduction.”

This trend is really bad, frankly. The whole “Oh man, you just learn through context and the experience!” would be fine if most developers had the skills to actually make the learning experience intuitive.

But the vast majority don’t, and…

Are we really holding a torch for this game at this stage?

Corporations listen to nothing but money.

Full stop.

The End.

Literally nothing else will make them do anything. *Nothing* else. Pretending otherwise is insanity.

The ONLY way this gets better is if Activision thinks their bottom line will start to slide and keep sliding, and the ONLY way to make them think that is to…

No need to qualify “Texas” GOP.

It’s the GOP. Full stop.  Literally all of them.

Pretending that only Nintendo releases things for the Switch is laughable at best.

Also you seem unaware of just how many IPs Nintendo has. It isn’t just Mario & Zelda. It’s things like Pokemon, Kirby, Fire Emblem, Smash Bros, Animal Crossing, etc. just to name a few, all of which have at least one (and some more than…