“I sure hope I can turn false scarcity into money!”
- Every Capitalist Right Now

About 10 years ago, while developing an unrelated game, we came up with the idea of “Detective Whiskers: Mystery-Solving Cat”, we had a comics and other drawings and eventually a silly prototype.

We of course didn’t get much farther, other development pays the bills. But every time a cat game comes out we all message…

I was in games and went to software (Artist). Programmers will generally be about 20% lower in games compared to their relative salaries in software, though more importantly if a game studio does stock it’ll be in very small amounts (a few thousand). So nothing like the Apple/Microsoft/Facebook/Google where stock can…

Yep, “It’s ok for people to sell a little snake oil...as long as they aren’t white men” is how we get people like Elizabeth Holmes.

I think a lot of the response is overblown. I take a more personal interest in these things because well, I’m an artist who works in games. But generally that doesn’t affect my enjoyment of them on release it’s just an interesting conversation to follow.

Where I grow increasingly unsympathetic towards The Pokemon…

“heterosexual rights are equally important”

Sure, and when was the last time it questioned whether two heterosexual people could get married?

The last time it happened systematically was not because a given couple was heterosexual, it was because they were mixed race.

It might actually lower their revenue but in a really circuitous way. At some point a larger radius can mean more items for a player in any given play session.

I play the game about 15 min a day on my morning walk. But with the smaller radius I actually reach 2 fewer pokestops (5 rather than 7) and I don’t want to…

The subway near my college was so funny, the clearly had a deal where one employee had to work and one got to sit in the side office and chill. And you could see the other employee too.

“Well, maybe that was the manager?” you might ask but no, I could come in the next day with the same two people working and the other…

If the game ever releases this is what will doom it:

The faith-militant will expect, nay demand, special treatment. If someone spent $1000 on a ship in 2013 what the fuck will they do if a similar ship becomes available to new players at pennies on the dollar?

The newbies will hate the game, as they’ll get blasted out…

I will say now, as I said last year: I was wrong about Star Citizen. I thought it’s playerbase would have cannibalized itself and the developers 3+ years ago.

It is now no longer fair for me to predict its doomsday because the truth is we already passed that and what do you know, the desire to believe you haven’t been…

Put it in perspective: do you know the name of the CEO of Oracle? What about Foxconn? What about Tencent? IBM?

Oracle is worth as much as Epic today. Foxconn, IBM, and Tencent are worth orders of magnitude more. This is Kotaku, most people know Sweeney because of games. Tim Cook doesn’t follow gaming, he likely follows…

I use y’all regularly and would never email a CEO who I’ve never talked to before using it.

Also he addresses Tim by name to start, but then uses “y’all” immediately after which causes ambiguity. He’s probably referring to “Apple’s developers” as that group but why not just say that.

> “Hi Tim,

> More storefronts available on more platforms is good regardless of who’s arguing for it.

Assuming those storefronts are secure and don’t undermine platform security I wholeheartedly agree. Apple’s probably going to lean heavily on that, though I’m not wholly convinced it will work.

They can show plenty of examples of…

I have to assume Apple would love to use this mistake as evidence for why opening up the app store third-party transactions is not secure.

There are plenty of instances of fraudulent transactions within the app store of course. An interesting difference though is that this case is about users scamming a company. The…

Where it burned a bridge for me was this goddamn thing. The hint says “oh the eye looks at the sword tip” and great there’s a sprial pattern on the wall.

For the ENTIRETY of 3D zelda a spiral pattern has meant “do a spin attack”. Not anymore! Not with motion controls. No instead wave your hand in an awkward circle…

I think my preference for desk lunch is based on something many office workers can’t do: For the past 7-8 years all of my jobs have allowed me to watch youtube (etc) on my computer.

No snarky, “Working hard, eh?” or covetous glances. I’ve got a sandwich in my mouth and headphones on; I’m clearly off the clock so we…

Now I want to see a mini-build inside a TMNT technodrome:

Meh, it’s also fairly low powered/inexpensive parts considering the time/energy that was put into the mod. The GPU is an RX 550, in his partpicker notes he said he tried for a 1070 mini but pulled it out due to “smelly hot plastic issues”

It’s not a “gaming” chair at all. I bought a rather high end gaming chair (Secret Lab Omega) which are well regarded and cost about $350 depending on sale prices. Holy shit in less than a week that thing got ‘donated’ to my girlfriend who doesn’t play games much; their return policy is a nightmare btw.

Then I went to a…

It’s not a “gaming” chair at all. I bought a rather high end gaming chair (Secret Lab Omega) which are well regarded…

I can only hope that like like smallpox’s variations if the new one is indeed more virulent it would be lovely if it’s less severe.

Note: nobody wants any type of smallpox or any type of coronavirus.