I wish I could say I’m surprised. Petty, spiteful, and awful to the very end.

via LadyAmbien, for those in the comments who are too lazy to click on a link but still want to defend this dude:

It was actually the same day, within an hour of the decision, per her post.

You really can’t turn this around into ‘perhaps it is u who are petty’ - the guy gleefully harassed and targeted minorities, and much of his anguish was that his website matured (to a degree) while he didn’t. The Something Awful website bankrolled his entire lifestyle even as he grifted and complained server costs…

I won’t ever really take pleasure in a man’s death but this coming the day after (as confirmed by LadyAmbien) he lost his divorce settlement against her is... remarkably scummy.

Something Awful produced a wild amount of humor and culture for decades and had a massively outsized influence for a long time. It was a place where I learned a lot about writing, about politics and some other things.

They mention that the $50k is the industry average via Glassdoor, at a national level, not that it’s the salary at Blizzard. Blizzard is *below* that average.

50k in SoCal is barely enough to live on your own.

The problem is, if they are making 50k a year, that isn’t enough to afford an apartment in south OC. The current income estimate is about 80k to afford to live here.

While I imagine you weren’t going to veer in this direction, this reminds me of people complaining that people wouldn’t want to work because unemployment offers too much money. That sounds like less of a problem than the fact that people need to get paid far more for what they do across the board. 

No, they mean eminent as an adjective that doesn’t specifically apply to people, as in conspicuous and impossible not to notice. Eminent is an adjective applied to the concept of “replaceable,” meaning that the employees feel that their replaceability is deeply obvious and very distracting/demotivating.

The adverb “eminently” usually means “to a great degree.” 

From Merriam-Webster:

Couldn't disagree more. The whole story was about redemption and finding the thing that makes you whole. I found it very hopeful, overall.

“Oh wow, another adventure game where a white male protagonist solves all his problems by running places and shooting guns? HOW FRESH.”

No, it’s not conveniently-placed audio logs. Okay, there are a few of those. But most of the interactions are the light echoes of multiple people acting out in real time. You’re seeing and hearing what happened, but can still move around, even walk away and ignore it - a very different feel from audio logs.

Are you suggesting that there can be only one game where there are no people and it’s set after a mysterious disaster?

Are you suggesting that such a setup can't be used to tell a compelling story or provide an interesting experience? That seems incredibly narrow-minded and dismissive. I can think of a dozen different "overused" setups in fiction of all mediums that are still used to great effect today. I don't see why this one is any…

How would you suggest they tell the story of a city in which every person has vanished? Would newspaper clippings and written diaries really be any better? Environmental storytelling can only go so far.

The light was making people happy, but Stephen got a bunch of people killed before the light could reach them. He didn’t know what he was doing, like the fox. The light wasn’t the wild animal in the story.