“A little later, Galyonkin made another comment on the same site, saying that he initially thought Paradox was aware of how the sale would affect its games, but ‘after a little investigation, it turned out that I was wrong.’”

Shamus Young has a great article, “In Defense of Crunch,” that really changed my perspective on it: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=31667

Honestly, he made the right choice, too. If I was a Polish author of a series that was virtually unknown outside of eastern Europe (hadn’t even been translated into English yet!), and a piracy/localization company came to me asking for the rights so they could make their very first game ever? Smart money is on them…

I’m not sure where you’re getting that from in my post. My point was that it literally wasn’t on TV, so it could not have been one of the best shows on TV.

I’m not sure where you’re getting that from in my post. My point was that it literally wasn’t on TV, so it could not…

It was definitely not “one of the best shows on TV of its time,” considering it wasn’t even on TV starting with the second half of its third season, because of how quickly it was bleeding viewers. Like, there’s clearly more to the story than that, given that Nick let them make a fourth season entirely online, but…

It was definitely not “one of the best shows on TV of its time,” considering it wasn’t even on TV starting with the…

To Drowning: I actually did marry my first girlfriend, and let me tell you: I got *absurdly* lucky, and if I had it to do over again, I would instead date as many women as possible. And this isn’t despite my being a devout Christian, it’s because of it.

Great advice on the marriage thing. The biggest trip I’d done before marriage lasted about two weeks; but now I am married, and I’m writing this from Ecuador, on the tail end of a five-month trip around Latin America. And the entire trip has been so much more fun than it would’ve been if I’d gone alone. Moreover, when…