Hey VP Nominee Tim Kaine has a Deadspin Account!

I think a big appeal of games like this and Nidhogg that sometimes even the players aren’t even consciously aware of is the return to abstraction in gaming. At the end of the day a video game still has to have a game dynamic to it. A good example of this that someone once explained to me is that modern war shooters…

First game out of college, running stuff on his own, possibly naively uncompromising on a feature. I feel like every programmer has been there at least once. I do think that if he compromised on the destructible mechanic and it’s as core as he claims, then his game would no longer be interesting and it would just be a…

Oh as a programmer/data scientist believe me I get it. This the comic basically describes half my life when it comes to “Well do I use an existing R package or do I just code it from scratch?” https://xkcd.com/1319/ And I have burnt myself too many times thinking it would just be easier and more efficient to code it…

I mean he may legitimately felt that the destructibility mechanic just wasn’t able to be suited by Unity back in 2011. In fact he more or less states it in the text.

I think the other big problem is that Metroid’s core mechanic has never been shooting. It’s been exploration and even platforming, with the weapon meta just being a nice mechanic to overcome obstacles. From what I’ve seen so far it’s like they said screw that, we want a Quake Arena game.

He really is. I listened to his interview on NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me quiz show and he is just the most likable person. I think everyone was just taken back by how genuinely nice of a dude he is.

Unlike the Colbert Show intro it’s probably not facetious.

A bit? 2500 years ago Cyrus allowed Jews, Babylonians, and Assyrians to continue believing whatever deities they felt like, if only because he knew it was a waste of time to force his belief system on them. Meanwhile as an Iranian-American I am worried about a candidate who is from a party which has prominent leaders…

My money is that it’s the same staffer who was responsible for this gem back in 2012:

There are other goals in Kinja?

Done.

It’s even ballsier than starring your own Kinja comment which is a move I’ve definitely thought of doing.

This is an acceptable version.

Floridaman, Floridaman
Does whatever a Floridian can,
Pulls out his glock, shoots randos around the clock
Look out, here comes the Floridaman

For a witty lot you all are supposed to be, way to just steal the joke from earlier in the thread.

Oh please you Mystic folk begin by disparaging the proud culture of the Valor and then get all defensive when we respond in kind. Team Harmony is likely a cowardly ruse by Mystic knowing that they lack the emotional wherewithal to survive a prolonged conflict and while they extend this olive branch they hide a dagger…

As a Muslim guy who started playing Pokemon Go in an airport I just want to chip in and say thank you for describing what kinds of thoughts go through POC just doing what should be inane boring normal things. I was just trying to collect all the PokeStops in the terminal before a flight and wasn’t paying attention and…

Machoke and they would be totally ignorant of the homoeroticism.

Orange Box TF2 had a good run. None of us could have known the Hat-reckoning that would be coming in the years that followed?