You’re right. LeBron James has to worry that is current net worth of ~$450 million earned in a country that has generally given him greater latitude to speak his peace than any other in the world might be harmed if he failed to take a stance supporting an oppressive regime that have done serious injury to their own…

Please do not perpetuate that. Those of us who felt called to teach hate this trite phase more than almost anything else.

Let’s be clear: Being an idol is not simply “being a celebrity.” Porn stars are also “celebrities” but they understand that their fans are buying products based upon their sexual attraction to the porn star. Idols are in many ways a more wholesome take on porn. They are the “girlfriend experience” meets geisha. The gir…

I mean... yes but also that’s a major part of what being an idol is? I have opinions about if idols should exist at all (I don’t like them, I’d prefer they didn’t) but when you step into an established role... it is what it is. Feel free to work to change it, but don’t complain it wasn’t an understood part of the role…

Look, I don’t know her, her work, or her views. I’m not going to try and cast any aspersions on any of that. What I can say is that her use of race as a costume is problematic regardless of how she saw it because (A) At this point it’s well understood and respected to cosplay without trying to emulate the skin color…

Choosing to object to an American country with core values enshrining the importance of giving everyone a voice bending knee to a foreign power by stifling political dissidence is not a failure to address the issues inherent. Your whataboutery is not a call to arms, it’s just a dillution of the actionable stance…

Except that I imagine they’re about to have a fun time explaining to a court how this isn’t an unfair restraint of trade relying on an abuse of the trust implicit to the original contract for a new competitor (and therefore violating the Sherman Act). I’m assuming it’s bureaucratic nonsense that will resolve before it…

That’s correct, but sale pricing (to get a little economics heavy here) is largely a response to trying to capitalize on the supply/demand pricing curve... and the supply for a digital good is effectively infinite, meaning that normal sales principles do not apply to it correctly as it fails one of the most basic…

The problem is that physical stores have a clearly defined minimum price thanks to supplier costs, maintenance costs, facility costs, employee costs, and transporation. You can calculate that quite easily in most cases. Digital goods are an initial major investment followed by a recoup period with a good that can be…

We didn’t see 1-2 dollar games littering mobile for about two years after the real race began.

The truth is that there are whole businesses in Asia who developers may pay to purchase and review content positively for them. You can find them fairly easily with a bit of searching. When your success and visibility depends upon reviews, you’re often stuck in a Catch-22 system of “I’m only visible if people review…

Steam actually hasn’t had much in the way of rules since the removal of Steam Greenlight — pay $100, avoid anything that causes them public embarrassment or legal issues, and Steam largely leaves you alone. That’s a major part of why you hear so many complaints about the increase in shovelware and how the problem of…

As a developer, everything about this worries me. It sounds eerily similar to mobile development’s race to the bottom and we all know how that ended: A glutted market full of often low-quality experiences churned out by imitator studios. I’m fine with offering low cost enjoyable gaming experiences, but I worry about…

To be fair, you don’t ask that games are clearly labelled as steam exclusive which, for many, is the default.

Yeah, but the worst firestorm to throw at a newly-minted PhD is a 200 person gen-ed, even with teaching assistants. My first time I failed so badly at it that I wondered if I shouldn’t give all the students “As.”

I don’t know about the OP, but If I have a student in my class do something as disrespectful to the educational process and their fellow students as vape in a closed space with unconsenting parties and then refuse to leave until campus police is involved you’re damned right I’m going to feel some glee. Someone wasn’t…

I’m ambivalent about this. We both know that a variety of professors are not only inadequate instructors, but (to be blunt) may actively harm the motivation of students to pursue their subject through either their attitude or their inability to impart passion. In a perfect world, every tenured professor and PhD would…

I dunno, my RMP has always been nice, but then again I’m upfront that my workload is intense and I’m lucky enough to teach classes that are not gen. req. so the people stepping in my classes know that what I’m teaching applies to them.

So is quality. That doesn’t stop me from saying something is bad.

And that advice might be less problematic in less densely populated countries... but the estimate for a 9mm fired from an average sized pistol at a 45 degree angle is ~1.4 miles and Memphis has a population per capita of 270 people per square mile. It is not absurd to tell people not to fire warning shots considering…