Thing is, in 1999 audiences left theaters satisfied, almost giddy, with Episode 1. Darth Maul was the character with the biggest impact and the climatic battle ended a 16 year light saber battle drought. It was in the years that followed that the nerd echo chamber exploded and public derision for the film came to the…

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Because maybe those of us with careers, wives, mortgages, children, etc. would still like to have fun playing a video game every once and a while, without having to commit to an extensive training regiment.

Oh yeah because games should only be for the hardcore people.

reminds of the superstore episode where they have Glenn’s first edition Superman #1...and rip the pages out to discard their gum in it. That sound is my soul crushing. 

Yeah, that’s classic opportunistic thief behavior: take what you can and throw away what you don’t think is worth anything/you can sell.

This....seems like a weirdly plausible scenario :(

If somebody stole it they probably opened it at home, realized it was some dumb card and just tossed it in disgust.

Honestly... suck it the fuck up.
The whole damn engine is rebuilt, every single pokemon has to be remade, reanimated, reprogrammed, balanced, etc. On top of that, the more detailed and complex everything becomes, the more time needs to be dedicated to each and every pokemon.
And doing it for well over 1000 pokemon is…

I’m going to buy the game, I’m going to enjoy it. Will I be upset that not every single pokemon to ever exist will be in it? no, no I won’t. Why? Because they’re nearly 1000 pokemon and I wouldn’t wish on any developer/designer/animator to code, animate, etc all of them. That’s insane and totally unrealistic.

Because like most gaming fans they are entitled children that cannot respect the creators or understand this is a business.

I’m to the point now, as a man in a professional work environment, where I don’t usually trust people in suits and ties. (exceptions apply for businesses with archaic dress codes where suits are still required)

I vaguely recall Destiny was once long ago planned to have both space combat and seamless flight from and to planet surfaces, so you’d be flying from the Tower directly to Mars or whatever. The objectively useless spaceships are basically a vestigial remnant of that older version of the game.

I think a major contributor to the problem is the tendency for the community to write off serious toxic and aggressive or hateful behavior as being a “heel,” as if this were all a scripted wrestling match and the competitors were characters rather than real people. We’ve seen this at every level of competition.…

I posit that participating in a fighting game tournament and “behaving in an adult manner” [sic] are pretty mutually exclusive.

So I appreciate the Kotaku is questioning these situations, but it doesn’t help your case when immediately following the article there are “recommended” examples of Kotaku openly glorifying these “pop offs”. Like maybe we stop celebrating these?

Can we just not give this guy the attention he apparently so badly craves?

A grown man attacks a 13 year old boy and cops are like “Well I don’t see a crime here.”

If it helps, think of it this way: watching it from a different place in your life is a different experience, that doesn’t belong to the past but to the present.

I don’t really have any patience for this right now. Every single candidate on the Dem side, including freaking Tulsi Gabbard, is an incalculable improvement over Trump, who’s not only the worst president in US history but one of the worst leaders of a country in, at least, modern history. We can get back to our usual …