That’s not quite correct. Stolar’s role in the collapse of Sega was much later (he didn’t join until I think it was 1997, and by then the Saturn was already in trouble). He was joining a sinking ship. His major business decisions included ignoring Grandia (which was a far superior RPG to FFVII at the time) and killing…

“Oh no! I can’t livestream a video game on YouTube! What am I going to do?”

Some trans activists actually assaulted a 60-year-old woman recently, calling her a TERF and using that as an excuse to jump her and attack her. More than a few trans activists applauded this because apparently radical feminists are somehow more dangerous than, you know, men?

Fair. I guess when one looks at leftbook and see some of the pomo/ouroboros stuff going around, it’s easy to get cynical (especially when certain activists, particularly trans people, start using TERFism as a justification to violence). But I see your point regardless.

It may just be that, despite the game industry’s inundation with bright, progressive and hopeful personalities, industry standards and capitalism-sanctioned practices are preventing great leaps forward in terms of ideas about labor.

NES Classic.

Not just that. They also want to write out the Founding Fathers (who are not exactly upstanding heroes to history), replacing them with random Christian preachers that lived in the time period, to suit their political agenda of worshipping Christ above all else.

thanks to tradition and nostalgia

Man. This was a poorly handled strike. A lot of blame to go around:

It’s gotten to a point that even that is perceived to be too invasive, though. That’s what a lot of people don’t seem to understand.

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I think regulation would be questionable here. The United States brand of capitalism (an undiluted form of it) has made it so that regulations are worse than the devil. Businesses are something akin to holy, and anything that impacts that their operations that isn’t another business (and even then) is a threat that…

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You’ve probably been asked this. But what makes a Japanese curry distinct from other curries?

Fascinating. Secret of Mana is the subtitle (which it wasn’t in the original JP release...it was just called Seiken Densetsu 2). I wonder why they did that.

With this, you fail to realize one of the biggest changes in gaming, or media in general in last decade and a half: Professional criticism from an esteemed publication no longer carries that much weight. While publications partially did this to themselves repeatedly through corruption and scandal (Gerstmanngate being…

But the point is that games change over time, either internally (through patches and constant development) or externally (through changes in gaming culture and in perceptions of gameplay). Some get better, others get worse. To lock down reviews because some social media hooplah might affect critical analysis down the…

Stan Kroenke could make even the most hardcore Gooner a Spurs fan.

I wouldn’t say it was a “social disorder” so much as it was classism in play. It’s regularly hinted at that Phelps came from a pretty elite background (his family runs a big shipping company, I think). Everything he was doing was to affirm his ultimate place in society, his class. Kelso’s departure from OCS in one of…

I see your idea and respond with Black and White, Spore, to mention countless others. You have games that get extensive amounts of hype, and then the critics match that hype with considerable praise...only for that praise to becoming meaningless after six months because of fundamental flaws and the novelty of the game…