none of that is standard practice anywhere in the game industry, or anywhere in software development generally, that i’ve worked at least. so that, maybe, gives some indication about the troubled internal workings of konami at the moment.

it’s confusing, because on the one hand, all that sounds like konami are terrified that their developers are going to flee, and they’re doing everything they can (ill conceived or not) to make it difficult for them to get work elsewhere. On the other hand, though, treating their talent so poorly is just going to…

i haven’t watched the show, but doesn’t have dragons and shit in it? so, not surprising that there’d be a lot of u.k. accents because it’s set in ye olde england, right? it’s like how every people from antiquity all spoke with english accents. seems like the same rules apply to fantasy settings.

they’re not just paying to keep the minimum wage where it is, they’re paying to keep the situation they’re in with their labor force one where they have all the power.

“he is an annoying doofus who has been peddling emptily profoundish, nauseatingly wholesome, sexless Disney World theme music to milquetoast nice bros for longer than I have been alive, and I wish he would quit it.”

why? it drives me crazy when people do this. putting in the extra whitespace makes it harder to read. if i’m looking up what a function returns and i have to scan across that big empty space from the functions name to the return type, besides being annoyed at having to do that, i’m liable to misread it, causing a…

@2:19 i was dying that you didn’t get the big peanut!

it’d be completely unforeseen if it should happen that a gamergater was the one who tweeted the bomb threat, and by that i mean completely foreseen.