Hate to be that guy, but what narrative driven game benefitted from extensive streaming? Did this game perhaps have an extensive interactive component in addition to the narrative?

And that’s fine. But it would require the people making and marketing these efforts as “games” to admit that they’re not really games.

I’m kinda with you here. The “is it a game or a movie” argument is largely academic until something like this comes up. A *game* being streamed is likely drumming up business - I’ve been motivated to buy games like “60 seconds” after seeing them streamed. (And pointedly, I don’t think any tabletop game has been…

Sped-up Yakety Sax version coming in 3, 2, 1...

After my first wife unhesitatingly took my last name, I encouraged my second (current, and *last*) wife to keep her name. She said she wanted to take my last name, and after being against it for a while I realized I was not willing to get in a fight with my wife and her parents over the issue.

...which means in another generation you get to fight about whether your *grandkids* will keep the “Grover” or the “thwaite” in their last names.

Isn’t that like the Lakers winning a gold medal?

Agreed. Not the least bit frightening.

“These days”? This was the programming block that launched with “12 oz. Mouse” and started Tim and Eric’s career.

“If I eat poorly for a few days and go running I feel terrible, which increases my determination to eat less and eat better.”

I’m not laughing at the people. I’m laughing at the studio. I’m sure lots of great guys make a living running concessions at Yankee stadium, but it doesn’t make me hate the team any less.

No, it’s not their fault. But it’s NCSoft, a studio that paradoxically runs lots of MMOs and shuts them down on a whim. (As opposed to say Sony, who whatever their management flaws keeps the lights on for their MMOs until most everyone leaves or an outside element forces their hand.) Having your resume ready when you…

My full statement: “Bwahahahahaha! Sure are glad you threw City of Heroes overboard for this, ain’t ya?”

Didn’t the “public con” aspect of it collapse in 2011ish?

Pretty sure “Titan” wasn’t fantasy, given how a lot of it’s assets were used for the decidedly-not-fantasy “Overwatch”.

The trash talking is why Blizz lets you mute chat.

I’m gonna go waaaaay out on a limb and suggest that being treated like a “piece of meat” has not been an issue for Mr. Schreier.

So basically what stymie99 said downthread.

The trick is to say that you love being Irish, or Norwegian, or Polish, or whatever, as long as it has a flag that isn’t the stars and bars.

Thing is, asking minorities to show yet more patience with white peoples’ ignorance for the sake of teaching them (“They’ll be different as a result of this! We swear!”) means drafting random minorities as unpaid educators. Nobody likes being in that position, and most would rather that the white person in question…