The death of anybody is obviously a tragedy, but the fact that Kyoto Animation was the rare studio that aggressively hires women, pays well, and promotes them to leadership positions means the deaths of 34 members of it’s elite Studio One team is losing some of the top up and coming future female anime directors, lead…

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If you need to feel hospitable in a place like Twitch, where the incentive to get paid is to get more users, and the larger streamers have a constant barrage of chat...I just don’t see how it’s possible to avoid this stuff completely.

In high school we had entire units on the use of protectionist policies and tariffs in the early 20th century. The general idea was that they discouraged trade, which would in turn raise the prices people in the country would pay for materials and goods. So they had a small benefit to specific protected sectors, while…

You’re right that I don’t get to interview many politicians, so I had to spar a bit when I got the chance! (Video game executives barely do interviews with press these days, which is too bad - I’d love to sit down with Andrew Wilson or Bobby Kotick for a chat.)

I don’t imagine you get to make much of these slippery politician calls, Jason, but it seems from the transcript it went really well. Did interviewing game industry representatives prepare you for something like this?
Also that last question! It’s great that, when you had an opening to expose the entanglement between…

He seems a bit like a tool but I agree with his overall stance. Loot crates are a transparently devious scheme that taps into the base instincts of people, often times people with poor money management skills.

I think the problem is also the companies can’t always wait forever to release a game developing a big AAA title for a non-megacorp developer they only have so much money to tide things over. Your argument does work on things like EA and co. as they have plenty of money to buffer things and one could argue that…

He doesn’t seem to fully get the real problem here.

I bought this almost as soon as I saw the trailer, it’s really ingeniously designed. However after a few hours I felt like I hit a wall in terms of the puzzle difficulties. “Do I want to stare at this layout for an hour and just get angry or play something else?”

Just wait, it gets worse. Lots of people are upset that they aren’t seeing returns this year because the nominal withholding rate decreased for most people. Then they get pissed that they owe 200 dollars or something even though they may have saved 2k on taxes.

“I know we all enjoy playing our Switches in handheld mode”

except Americans have gotten arrested for their ritalin and other prescriptions when returning to Japan when carrying their prescriptions on them. Hell there was a huge diplomatic incident when a girl from Oregon spent 18 days in jail for her Adderall script and the American ambassador had to get involved so don’t go…

It absolutely blows my mind that Japanese drug discourse makes DARE look evidence-based. A friend who lives in Tokyo told me a while back that the overwhelming mainstream perception of drugs in Japan is that being at all involved with that stuff automatically means you’re a straight up evil person, and that prejudice…

Quick let's erase all trace of this naughty person from history. That's the best action to take!

He shouldn’t be the Democratic Party candidate for president.

Bernie has fought for progressive causes all his life.  Terrific.  Let him continue to do so from the Senate.  Or as an elder statesman in the private sector.  He shouldn’t be the Democratic Party candidate for president.

Illiteracy is a hell of a drug.

Which is after 2014 that she told you she played the demo at.  

I’m not a like, huge Chris Pratt fan, and I don’t begrudge him being all Jesus-y, if it helped him through stuff. It’s just...I dunno, maybe he should just straight up say “I’m against gay conversion therapy, which is a despicable, hurtful practice,” or even just sit down with Ellen Page to talk. I get the desire to…