Wow, a lot of negativity here. I’m someone who works in one of the good studios, and has for most of my career. There are good studios out there who take management being competent seriously, and there are an unfortunate number of game companies that will shit all over you because we game developers let them. If he…

Okay, so. I guess my first and biggest thing here is that you are comparing highly skilled professionals to fourteen year olds working at McDonald’s. In fact, I think that’s such a big thing that I really can’t put it aside and try to be reasonable while I talk to you.

That’s not a programmer’s salary that you’ve linked to, that’s a designer’s... Most of the programmers I know are paid fairly well. That doesn’t quite change the fact that many of them could earn twice as much if they worked in banking or something.

Ugh. I’m sorry that you and your family have been targeted. I’m sorry that this woman and her family have been targeted. It’s such bullshit.

Most Catholics will pick and choose. None of the Catholics I grew up with refuse birth control or IVF.

Overtime pay? Oh, game tester. Many developers are exempt. I got nothing extra when I did crunch, other than catered dinner.

I thought it was because of the plagiarism with The Winter Road...

There should probably be some kind of combination, like the LPers get 50% and the game creators get 50% or something like that. I guess what I’m saying is that LPs depend so much on the game that they really should have some sort of licensing. Maybe the same kind of licensing that cover bands need?

Holy crap. That’s damned amazing!

Don’t fuck Ghomeshi— he’d probably like it. There’s gotta be some other word that can be used...

Is it, though? I mean, it’s more expensive than what we do now, sure, but that’s a poor standard. The people with death penalty cases get lots of expensive appeals, true... but shouldn’t everyone who has a reasonable case for it get those appeals in an ideal world? Rehabilitation is not something we practice, so yes,…

I seriously think they want women who want to abort a fetus to either realize how wrong they were, or die. These are bad women, after all— they had sex when they shouldn’t have, and when God gave them a child, they decided to murder it.

You know... it’s fine if she’s not considered to be dark enough to play Simone. (I mean... she’s an actress, so I’m not entirely sure why her own life experience is germane, but I’ll shut up and let those who have a real stake in things make the call.) But seriously, not that long ago, everyone on this site was all…

True artistic games are typically very short in the first place. People don’t make 20 hour art experiences.

I’m in the camp that doesn’t love her character design, but holy crap, the details on that little statue are awesome!

Statistical outlier...

Uh, no. No, no, no. My body was not telling me I needed a pizza every other day, that was me not wanting to go to the store— ordering in meant I didn’t have to leave my house or interact with the cashiers. Psychological, not physiological.

Nah. Diets work. People just stop being on them and don’t bother with maintenance, because honestly, maintenance is psychologically harder— you don’t get a reward for staying the same, but your brain can find one for losing a pound. I lost 55 pounds on a diet, and I felt great. I could wear clothes that I thought made…

Why would I think about what people might say about black lips? It doesn’t come up. Ever. So it’s still surprising. Kimmy Schmidt is another person I have no clue about, looked it up, some sketch artist? Whatever. Look, if I wanted to brag, I’d talk about how I did engineering, not some fluff subject like sociology…

Nah, I couldn’t imagine it either. Here’s some privilege-acknowledgement for you— I don’t ever have to hear anyone say this crap, so it’s still surprising and confusing rather than simply disappointing.