He can re-shape it any way he like. No biggie. Just poor taste, probably...

Yeah, there are LOTS of good board games companies out here that launch very good products without crowd-funding. It’s not a huge market, the board games themselves are pricy and probably niche, but it’s definitely not a hellish landscape that implies that if you don’t succeed at one game you going bankrupt.

There are many other ways to gauge a product viability other than launch a crowdfunded campaign. That said, the concept itself (“we’ll make a product only if enough people show some skin on it beforehand”) is not bad.

That last phrase is kinda weird to me. For the same reasons, I’m on the team that says such a game SHOULD be made and is sorely needed. As you said people often misrepresent what the Vietnam War entailed. Maybe it’s because too much of it is being told by US soldier point of view?

I agree that this kind of take on trigger-happy shooters that do nothing but eulogize the US Army would have been better in 2009~, but maybe now that we saw how difficult it is to preserve peace in the middle east with nothing but armies and “goodwill”, I say better than never.

Give me a solid B-Tier game that delivers a comprehensive and satisfying experience with clear expectations above any tired AAA formulaic game that thinks it “the shit” because it cost so much to produce.

I guess some game style (or genre) have a very steep price of entry and/or for maintenance, especially evolving games with microtransaction or changing world because it simply need a constant effort.

I’m here with you. That it leaked, and in such a fashion, tells Nintendo all it needs about the seriousness of their (former) partner.

Have your star!

My take on this is that it grew to immense proportion internally and that they HAD to hire someone externally to finally put the tension to rest, by calling one side being right.

Then you must have noticed the hundreds others pointing to other sources along the years, yet only chose to harp on those made by Jason. There is a word for that, I think it begins with “h” or something....

It’s nice to see Kotaku’s former employees having a good career in reporting in big(ger) organisations.

You can ask this of every single person who has fame behind him/her. It’s called stardom.

It’s basically a form of image selling without clear rules and payment methods. Some are getting paid (like Pogchamp was), some are blatantly “stolen” without the person based on them notified or even paid, like Critical Bard.

Listen to just about any rant from any Republican running for office in the last few months (going even back as 2016) and you will have this line repeated verbatim an ungodly amount of times. Deligimization of the other as a platform, distilled.

You got it completely backwards. Section 230 does not shield those companies from liability: it literally allow them to be working and possible.

Probably a lot surer than a nihilistic industrialist take that everything is transactional and based on money.

The quick answer would be that ideally you would have diversity in all moral spectrums (Good/Evil dichotomy for starters) as well.

I’m not even sure you realize that I’m not even on that hill you describe. All I did was describe a general factoïd, that is only tangentially related to the case at hand. You are making a strawman out of me to “prove” your own point.

“Relevance” in this context is not related to the reporter reputation. Jason is a good reporter, but he is dwarfed by many others, more experienced reporters in Bloomberg’s staff. At Kotaku he was top dog, probably among the better ones in the VG jouno sector. But OVERALL he now lends his credibility to the…