AndrosZ got it right with a shorter, pithier take than what I will offer, but:

Offering add-on content (or even standard in-game content) that memorializes a fallen member of the development team—or the fan community that supported the game—is a really neat, touching way for developers to demonstrate the humanity…

The problem isn’t so much that the microtransactions exist in and of themselves, but that their existence incentivizes the developer to demand more grinding from a player.

Compared to most people, I would say I have a very particular view of micro-transactions (MTX) in general. I work as a PM/Systems Designer for a mobile gaming company and MTX is where our revenue comes from... we offer free-to-play games and we offer ways to speed-up or get ‘unstuck’ through item in our store. We are…

Honestly, it sounds like pretty much any industry I’ve worked for in customer service. There are people paid to do their job and there are people paid to make your product as enticing as possible without the foresight to understand how this will cause problems in the future.

The Double Fine documentary series is one of the best resources anyone’s ever created for game development, so of course it led to Gamergaters and other cretins attacking Double Fine CEO Tim Schafer and other people there.

My personal favorite of those is the art guy showing drawing a new concept art for the game and showing it off when he could be <insert development activity here> instead. Because the art guy is totally whats holding up resolving an engine level issue thats being worked on by an entirely different team.

Rorschach may have been an anti-hero and an asshole, but he’s also the only one who isn’t fine with killing millions of people on the off chance that it will create a fleeting peace. I mean, that’s what I like about him and he’s one of the more interesting characters (although I certainly don’t idolize him), but I…

That would be Men untaught by Elves. Pagan in this context clearly means “not knowing the names of Iluvatar or the Valar, and having fantastical notions of the cause of things rather than the true history of glowing trees and shit”

Lots of planets have a South

Yeah, when it comes to philosophy I’m not even a filthy casual myself. I was really thinking of pretentious poseurs who want credit for having read Nietzsche, even though they don’t understand him and think he’s some kind of Social Darwinist or “do what thou will” Anton La Vey type. Think of Otto from A Fish Called…

Although it was pretty obvious that The Comedian was supposed to be The Punisher — Rorschach was an expy for the obscure “hero” The Question.

And we really just got to see that Rick isn’t infallible... his goof ups, embarrassing moments and mistakes get erased from Morty’s mind. You can’t take Rick’s awesomeness for granite! ;)

Man’s gotta have a code.

I think there is a certain personality type of fairly intelligent and perceptive person who goes through a phase in their life lasting maybe a decade, from about age 15 to age 25 or so, in which they realize that many people and many institutions of society are hypocritical and corrupt. But instead of continuing a…

It reminds me quite a bit of It’s Always Sunny; for a while I lived with a small handful of dudes who wanted to be The Gang, picking analogues in the show for who they felt best represented them, and emulating the various drinking games and habits they exhibited. It entirely baffles me that anyone would watch that…

One of the primary criticisms leveled against Rick And Morty fans is that they mistakenly valorize Rick as a sort of uber-nerd, a shit-talking asshole who’s too smart to abide by normal social rules. Rick is always right, and when he isn’t, he still comes out on top, probably with a catchphrase and an episode-ending…

>because of those fans, the show is becoming easy to hate

I see you’re a reader of Jane’s column.

Well, clearly the translator is better at Dinosaur-to-Elizabethan English translation than Dinosaur-to-Modern English translation.

Well, it works better if you assume that the dinosaurs aren’t speaking English, but rather this is a crude translation of their language. Think of the way we still use the term “cancer” which has its origins in the greek for “crab” because somebody thought the tumor looked like a crab.