Yes, everyone talks about how worried they are, but who’s actually doing something to stop him?

It’s not just trade, though. China owns a sizable chunk of US debt. Do you think we’d hesitate one second in forgiving ourselves of that obligation if they fucked with us militarily? They’d be kissing something like $1.4 trillion bye-bye overnight, not to mention all those Chinese manufacturing jobs that our companies…

So, what do you guys think is actually going to happen as a result of Trump talking to Taiwan on the phone? Do you think China will attack Taiwan (whom we’re obligated to defend in such a case)? Do you think they’ll attack us? You realize that any drastic decision on China’s part would instantly free us of $1.4…

How exactly did NeXT engage in a toxic, vindictive bridge-burning moment steeped in seemingly personal, sentimental decision-making? I don’t recall that.

So the way you typically go about winding less profitable businesses down, as a company, is by setting fire to all of the brand power you’ve built up in them? Like, people keep saying “Konami doesn’t care!” as though that’s ever been at issue. Clearly they don’t. But that doesn’t mean the way they handled this…

So I doubt they are loosing any sleep over it.

That’s a bullshit question. Ask the developers (and perhaps they should also be asking themselves, if they feel that way) why they aren’t coming together to press for advances in pay, benefits, work/life balance, etc. It’s usually been my experience that people who respond to labor demands with statements like, “Why…

Well, if all the judges understand the gravity of their rulings, if everything is appropriately constrained by law, then we’ll have nothing to worry about, will we? My concern is that the structures in place really are pretty rickety, that judges who authorize actions that ordinarily test the boundaries of…

Yeah youre misunderstanding. They didnt tarnish the value.

Do you and a massive amount of Kojima fappers just not grasp that Konami doesn’t give a fuck...

Listen Im not saying they didnt have options, they just chose to back out of AAA gaming.

So you burn all of those bridges, which constitute a real investment of time and resources into your AAA brand? Hell, they could have spun off their video game ventures and simply sold them to the highest bidder for some solid dosh. Who’d buy it now? The name, at least, would certainly be worthless.

Also, I just want to add that your username is excellent. Please tell me it’s a reference to the band.

It’s a missed opportunity, for sure, in the long-term. The reason why you diversify is to protect your company from one-dimensionality, and also to explore whether there may actually be larger profits to be made in other areas. Lower potential profit margins may be one of the costs of that exploration. Now listen, I…

And that was their mistake, failing to recognize that Kojima made the Konami brand in gaming. By losing him, they have lost any and all claim to AAA credibility in the industry.

Great question. If only the public had the information to verify whether such a policy existed, there would be no reason to ask it. What we know is that the US citizen child of Anwar Al-awlaki—also a US citizen himself—was killed in a drone strike a mere two weeks after his father’s death, even though he had not seen…

I’m sure not going to lose sleep over it, that’s for sure.

Because he became an enemy combatant by giving aid to the inheritors of the AQ legacy and by being a recruiter for their cause. Congress allowed this. There’s no controversy here.

We know virtually nil about what our government is doing under the cloak of national security. The president can have pretty much anything justified by his legal counsel in this atmosphere, thereby rendering him immune from prosecution for anything later found to have been in violation of the law. This was a huge…

Who cares? It only makes the role of the games critic more essential. There are ridiculous numbers of books being published at any given point in time, but you don’t hear many book critics talking about how it’s too much to handle. Let the games flood in. We’ll rely on y’all to lead us to the good ones.