Whenever you have a new online game that has any significant press leading up to it, you reach a point where there is no practical server capacity that is going to be enough, especially when you know damn well that your game is not going to hold the interest of more than a simple majority of those players... at best.

Well, in this case the “outsiders” were arguably being duped by an “insider” to help that insider make money, potentially at the detriment of the outsiders.

That’s my theory as well. I suspect they WERE entertaining a “Switch Pro” at some point and were sourcing components (kinda like how they did the “New” 3DS. Then the massive chip bottleneck hit, and all they were able to actually get their hands on at the end of the day was a bunch of screens.

Well, that’s the problem; you can’t be 9-year-old you coming out of the theatre in 1990 ever again. There are 31 years of experiences that has shaped you in a way that make it impossible to capture that same magic. Not even watching the original is going to make you feel the same way.

This. Literally this.

I personally find this a typically inspired move for Kojima to take from a director’s standpoint...

Lemme guess. They all “just look alike.”

“This letter reinforces the reality of this trial, that both Epic and Apple resoundingly lost.”

Judging from some of the replies I’ve perused, it sounds like they’d agree the answer isn’t to remove the trans people here, but to visibly add MORE, of all different stripes, with their own motivation and styles.

No, YOU don’t understand what is being discussed here. You’re talking about economic consequences (whales no longer buying the product because they feel lied to). That’s absolutely an option.

Nah, the players have literally no legal standing in this case.  There’s nothing to understand.  They’re 100% wrong.

It’s actually rather amazing how exposing players to how iterative design in video games work hasn’t helped a massive amount of players understand how iterative design works.

What? You mean to tell me you’ve never met a “If I can’t have everything I want NO ONE can have anything” personality before?

Nope.  Both screen names.  Tenha is Korean, Kylorren is Argentinian.

The fact that Tenha’s not Chinese at all kinda makes the complaint that it might not be a slur in Argentina rather moot.

I got the impression that the butchering is intentional, because she’s not regal or noble in the slightest.

There is certainly a massive degree of that.

Introduction to Customer Inertia feels like it should be a business training program.

But that’s different, because you’re a pure boy being seduced by an older woman who just has unfortunate circumstances!

Some people just want the horny fan fiction. They want that pure, sugary escapism. They don’t want to have to think about shitheads that will ruin their lives and don’t see anything beyond their nose as another human being.