If you start a sentence with “But...” then the sentence before it was never full stopped. Full stop.

Fairly brave stance, criticizing someone’s critique of an obvious bug as if you first need to design, program, and bring a game to market before you can say obvious bug is poor design.

I’m a little bit gonna call bullshit on Dan Simmons, having read the first half of the Hyperion Cantos a year or so ago and Ilium/Olympos this past summer and nothing else from him (I’m working on Endymion currently but having trouble finding time to read).

Yeah, it’s important to note that Mario may be a valuable property, but that’s only because they don’t just let the highest bidder do whatever they want. The industry runs on/around money, but there’s quick cash-0uts and then there’s smart money.

You could spend 20-60$ on a set of powerline adapters to turn those power plugs into ethernet ports.

Glad to hear the new Newcomer Stream is good again! I remember watching it when I was first getting started with Dota and enjoying it a lot back at TI3 or so. I was really disappointed when I heard they were getting rid of it, and there was some debate/skepticism in the community whether or not it would be worthwhile…

I originally felt sort of viscerally repulsed by that opening paragraph for not being how any of this would typically be described by someone familiar with the game, but then it turned into a lot of respect for how succinctly and accurately it describes the situation for people unfamiliar with Dota without being…

I think you’re misunderstanding my example. My point was that Skyrim has better brand recognition than Elder Scrolls in the eyes of Zenimax, as evidenced by how they titled their card game and, similarly, your usage of “a card game related to Skyrim” rather than the Elder Scrolls. Of course, that’s also a recent…

From other coverage, it sounds like there are going to be lanes, so I wouldn’t bet on it being too straight a Hearthstone clone. Maybe closer to Adventure Time: Card Wars if anything, but it sounds more active.

To be fair, I don’t think Nintendo needs to protect “Bros.” because no one is dumb enough to try and use it for an unrelated franchise. I can think of the game Brothers, but not really anything else that uses the abbreviation, and I would bet the second someone wants to use “Bros.” in their game title, someone else…

I think that applies for Gearbox, but there are a few things that make this different and potentially a big deal: you’ve got Valve throwing their weight behind it.

Nah, “Brawl” is a SSB subtitle for a specific entry which would make it closer to Zenimax going after someone for using “Wind” or “Sky” in the name of an RPG—it wouldn’t happen. It also comes up in the video game context for a few genres. I’ll grant that the font is pretty close, though, and it could have a pretty big…

Yep. Another example might be Yokai Watch, although I’ve never actually played and understand people yell at other people for suggesting it’s basically Pokemon. If nothing else, I’m sure it’s at least in the “collect ‘em all and make them fight” genre, like most of the MegaTen games as well with demons or Digimon…

They would need to pay royalties if they were using actual Smash content: character designs, sounds, other assets, branding, etc. If they’re not using any of that, even if they share the exact same mechanics, there’s absolutely nothing for Nintendo to do because you can’t own mechanics/game types or stop people from…

A Pokemon fan project with all the same mechanics, but none of the trademarked Pokemon material (meaning entirely all new monsters, no use of “Pokemon,” etc) would be perfectly fine and I’m sure it would be welcome on their platforms if it were a good fit. A Pokemon fan project that uses the name Pokemon and clearly…

Even if you didn’t do a full-on guide, a selection of tips like these would be utterly fantastic. I’ve tried to learn by reading manga in the past, but was put off by how difficult it was and feeling unsure of whether or not there were varying reading levels or how to find a non-terrible manga that might be better…

None of the games were created with native 16K quality graphics: even at 4K, they (the ones that run) are probably upscaling and don’t actually look any nicer aesthetically than if you were putting them on a similar quality 1080p display. Bumping the desktop resolution to 16K doesn’t suddenly make the content higher…

I mean, anything is silly if you reduce it to a silly point. Everest is just REALLY BIG HILL. That says nothing of the technical and physical logistics of getting there, whether in literally bring in your own air, or setting up multiple base camps that can sustain an adequate number of human beings en route up the…

I get that Everest is really big, I’m just not sure what the point of climbing it is (especially if you have to carry oxygen in order to breathe). I mean I get that it’s a large mountain and not exactly safe, but then...why climb it?

I mean, it is a YouTube channel dedicated to creating entertaining tech content. “Gotta score those YouTube views” makes it sound like it’s somehow shitty to do something like this but like...why? It’s cool, and I’m excited to watch it.