I played the first three level of Dark Forces so many times, getting the demo as part of a larger LucasArts pack.

Yeah, like, give is a few paragraphs here at least, or don’t bother- retweet Bloomberg over on Twitter if all you want to do is share it with people rather than do anything with it.

Whatever’s available with an owner willing to teach you.

Interesting. When he left Blizzard, he worked on creating, Kickstarting and fulfilling an RPG. I backed it then sorta forgot about it until it showed up on my doorstep last month.

Heat pump is the number 1 upgrade I’d make to my Volt.

Slower than Joshua Abraham Norton, but this is the stage in the life of the rich South African businessman based in San Francisco where he loses everything; he’ll disappear for a few years then come back and declare himself Emperor of the United States, mark my word.

“Rank up!” is my go-to from there.

“Wow, this is a super surprising thing for ArtStation to - ohhhhh it’s owned by Epic, okay.”

I mean to be fair, people aren’t going to be dropping car batteries into their curbside trash pickup.

This tourist season lasted from June to September.

I used to work retail and due to chronic understaffing we had vacation blackouts not just for December but also all summer because we were in a summer tourism town. When interviewing for my next job I asked about vacation blackout dates and the interviewer just kind of boggled and went, “What? No.” So nice.

I’m waiting for a watershed case that sets precedent to keep this kind of frivolous, SLAPP-esque thing from happening, but it’s hard to imagine any legal team recommending going up against Nintendo - even with a clear-cut case, Nintendo would drag it out and make it fabulously expensive.

Thank you for stating slightly better what I was going for in my own follow-up. A shame the uneducated snarky zinger got more stars but, that’s the internet for ya.

Ya think? Buncha brainiacs there to come up with that.

Nintendo not being able to sue and shut down YouTube as a whole for a single video on their site, for one. Well, maybe only. But without that framework, a way for the big sites to pass the buck to the uploader, they’d be responsible for what’s on their site, full stop, and Nintendo (and Disney) would have shut down…

(Actually, I’ll say growing up, I was at Saturn of Mohawk Valley regularly when my dad was getting oil changes and stuff done there on the weekend, before we went to the mall. Regular games of Uno with him and my sister, browsing the showroom, really inviting atmosphere. Wish Saturn were still around so I was working…

A “New York” car, wtf?

DMCA has its benefits but man does it get abused to hell and back. There needs to be more checks on companies like this that issue strikes in clear violation of fair use policies.

You simultaneously overestimate the time it takes to write a quick news article like this and underestimate the time it takes to make a good, quality game review.

It’s apparent that his success has come from spending on money on people to do the actual work for him and that the companies coming up alongside him spend considerable effort to insulate themselves from his management. This has given him the mistaken notion that things are easy, and what’s running one more company,…