For the readers questioning how others could possibly gain pleasure through spending money this way, let’s remember the following human activities:

I really wish gamers would internalize at least this one thing:

My wife and I might have watched that video a dozen times in a row when it came out. We instantly put words into our dog’s mouth: “Don’t want no birdies on my lawn/Bark at the birdies on my lawn”.

Plants vs Zombies is the first I really time I really felt like casual games didn’t need to be trash. Thanks for that. It and Bejeweled will always rank among my favorite casual friendly games.

Also, Laura Shigihara is a fucking treasure. You guys knocked it out of the park with this and her!

We released this trailer on April 1, 2009, a few weeks before PvZ launched. In those days we did almost NO pre-promotion of our games. We only began marketing/PRing them when they were actually available to buy. So when this crazy video was sent out, it was the first most people had heard about the game, and everyone,…

You left out the main thing that made PvZ popular

Popcap.com

From 2000 to about mid-2002, I worked at one of Popcap’s competitors. I designed and programmed around 15 different games of varying complexity and originality. Some were existing games reskinned, others were brand new gameplay (like we had a turn-based online soccer boardgame for 2 players... that was a lot of fun).…

The internet is fine, PEOPLE are the mistake. 

Social Media in particular. Nothing like giving the equivalent to a nuclear powered megaphone and a handy directory of shitheads with agendas to fuel your moronic tendencies.

Fuck Zuckerdick and his goddamn ‘basket of oily rags and book of matches’ making machine in particular though. The massacres in Myanmar is gonna…

The internet was a mistake. 

If I were 14, this might spark envy in my soft little brain. As a man in his 30s, I can only think that some incredibly bad decisions are going to be made in that ridiculously gaudy house, and these kids are just not ready for it.

If this sugar and plastic pile burns down it’ll probably caramelize.

Imagine creating an organization that celebrates conspicuous consumption and unearned wealth and then having either the extreme self-awareness, or the extreme lack thereof, to call your organization One Percent.

It’s like she’s waiting for that moment to jump out with the gun. Both parties could have walked (or driven)away at any time.

The full video is one of the most bizarre things I’ve ever seen. Because Handgun Becky seemed to trying to deescalate the situation, in an admittedly terrible, privileged, and ham-fisted way. But then mom slaps the car, and she’s Annie Oakley.

Mounting evidence that it wasn’t schtick?

I’m going to guess it’s some variation on “being a really shitty person.”