I like the part where the Board investigated itself and found itself not-guilty.

I don’t think Lindelof can really be fairly blamed for Alan Moore being grumpy and in this case slightly humourless.

“Like if you saw a viral video of some person shouting the n-word at someone on the street, you might wonder what set them off.”

This bums me out. It seems like Carlton Cuse was the bigger problem of the two and, at least based on how he responded to Maureen Ryan’s queries through a PR person rather than straight-on, less willing to engage in real introspection about it. It’s clear that Damon Lindelof has thought about these things in the years…

Does what exactly? The Watchmen show was better than anything Moore ever wrote. Moore is a curmudgeonly old bastard, and I can’t blame him when it comes to the many horrible adaptations of his work made it to film, but the HBO Watchmen isn’t one of them. The writers room for Watchmen was predominantly Black writers…

Lindelof in particular has since led shows that have taken a lot of these issues on. I’d be curious to hear if his subsequent workplaces have righted the wrongs of the past. 

Bytes for the byte god.

This just seems like a kind of random list of movies.  Nobody forgot Con Air.

That being followed by saying that those types of games have too much competition just goes to show he doesn’t have a clue. Like, you want them to pitch you things that you don’t want to support?

If he had said: “I have a narrow focus in my interests, and the company I run reflects those interests. I really don’t know what to make of pitches that don’t involve war or robots, so I largely steer clear of them and stick to my wheelhouse”, then he would have at least sounded honest and credible.

“The problem with women designers is they don’t pitch classically man-oriented games like war and fighting” is such an incredibly stupid argument to make. It’s not even “oops I misphrased”, there’s no charitable way to read this.

That Dancey thought that his original post was in any way acceptable shows that he’s living in an extremely restricted bubble within a male-dominated industry.

They reported huge percentages of growth in sales in all sectors minus mobile and they lose 44%? The stock market is a joke with rules that ignore reality.

So, a company whose business model is buying up other companies, and whose value is solely in how many companies they can buy, lost half their money when someone said they weren’t going to give them even more money to buy more companies.

Given Amazon announced they were working on a LOTR MMO, I’m actually inclined to believe it was them.

I’d honestly put it on Amazon if I had to venture a guess. They’re more than happy to support something until they don’t, much like Google. MS pulling out of gaming deal seems less likely since they’re so desperate for an exclusive hit. Doubt Sony would even sniff around Embracer. 

That’s been my experience with the talk around their love in WIII:

The juxtaposition of something like this with the linked and quite thoughtful 2012 AV Club article is a bit jarring.

Given the company’s financial straits, falling market cap, and declining stock price, it is unsurprising that they would restructure their business operations and cancel unsuccessful ventures.

Okay, out of the modern titles I’ve only played MKX, so maybe 11 fixes this, but: I mean, plotwise, a reboot seemed inevitable because they sorta wrote themselves into a corner in X, where a big time jump ages all the characters so now the main cast are all in their 50's. You can’t move the timeline forward too much…