This image is giving me some cost-cutting ideas.

A relevant image, from last year’s SEC filings.

Hopefully this is a lesson for the smaller game makers. Don’t get swallowed up by the big dog just because its the easy way out.

It’ll kill your soul and destroy your dreams.

The more layers you can insert between a person’s concept of money, or at least the resources they have, and a thing that can be bought with resources, the better at confusing or enabling a person to buy a thing. This is why at the outset, Microsoft’s xbox store ran on points and not the user’s local currency. If you…

Is there anybody who actually thinks this stuff is fun?

I hear this one on nearly every speedrunning post I do and my response is always that these tricks take tons of practice to perform and these runners are infinite more knowledge about the games they run than you or me will ever be in pretty much anything.

“Meh, Japanese people wear t-shirts with strange English.”

The nonsense is only spread by americans. Other people either don’t give a shit or are happy to see you are wearing things of their culture. If you wore a shalwar kameez to Pakistan no one is going to be mad; they’ll be quite happy actually.

Oh my fucking god. So getting Japanese characters tattoo’d on you is now cultural appropriation?

Get the fuck out of here.

Look, we’ve all laughed at those people who got a Chinese character tattoo that thought it meant “spirit” or something, but it instead meant “soup”. But thats about the extent of it. The person…

I like this one. It always seems like those not involved or affected in any way are the ones making the biggest stink about things. I’m gonna go ahead and appropriate this quote.

Man, I miss the whole Wii/Wii U aesthetic. It bums me out that Nintendo abandoned it super hard with the Switch. I loved the music! I loved the bizarre non-essential apps (like News and Weather and most importantly, Miiverse)! I love Miis, who are basically having their last hurrah in Smash Bros but are otherwise dead.

It sounds like it mimics the Fire Emblem Battle Save feature. I don’t recall Advance Wars allowing you to save scum, but it’s been a while since I played any of those games. Into the Breach doesn’t allow mid-battle saves either, though you can pause to the menu at any time. Most turn-based strategy games don’t let you…

In Siberia, kerosene road burns you!

It actually sounds more like he got prison time for not showing up to his court date.

I’ll buy one for my house and one for my office to accurately simulate how freakin’ far it is between bonfires in the game!

Ray tracing for $350? Whatevs. My 1987 Amiga 500 is doing the job just fine.

That FOV... first time I was getting dizzy from a video game.

As a fledgling game developer I’m always impressed what people are able to do on their own. Looks pretty cool gotta say. 

I wonder how many french fries my kid will stick into the screen opening before I notice.

I’m blocking deadspin from my Google feed after this story.