I think part of it is: Are they really feeling those things, or are they just reacting believably to the stimuli around them? How can one tell, and does it matter?

Indeed, A/B testing of this sort is endemic to the world we live in. This is non-news.

At least this generation is getting angry over their own experience - previous generations had this sort of irrational behavior over sports team they’re fans of - not even playing the game they throw things over.

Wasn’t Jurassic Park originally supposed to be one of the Worlds?

This would be far more interesting to me if it starts out as “Duke Nukem”, but ends up “Last Action Hero 2“.

/Waves from the future!

The article says that that the ratio it dispensed was: “traditional soda fountain ratio of 5:1 syrup to soda water”. 5 Parts syrup to one part soda water?! Perhaps this is reversed? (Please let this be so.)

Ignorance is not stupidity.

Those fuckers did the exact same thing when they laid us off at the end of Lego Universe’s acquisition!

It was never about the Weapon. It was about those Shaders, because ya gotta look good blowing up the bad guys.

0/10. Hm. Not sure what, if anything, that means.

Which is particularly egregious given that the entire point of Steam is to encourage you to buy more games.

This is absolutely the case - having been approached more than once by an angry gamer, who was sure that some aspect of the game they didn’t agree with was all they needed to create a scene was plenty enough. Particularly after one followed a coworker into the parking lot after dark screaming obscenities, is more than…

So, to be clear, the term Matte Painter still applies to someone who works digitally. They just happen to be 2D digital paintings. Not sure if the above artist is working digitally, but I would expect so, particularly for post-production, where CG is heavily used.

Though, to be clear, the consulting wing of Andersen was spun off to Accenture, which is doing just fine. Re-branding goes a long way.

Tiresome.

Anyone who’s unfamiliar with Ahoy’s takes on video game guns, and their backgrounds should take a moment to watch his playlist “Iconic Arms”:

Of course, it’s terrible that her husband was deported, and that it’s going to happen to a bunch more people...

Agreed - I played a few vs AI games to get a feel for it when it came out, but until co-op is available, I have no reason to sink time into it.