Oh, I know. I had this teacher that would always ask me to do a William Shatner impersonation, but what he really wanted was my Patrick Stewart. I kept saying to him, “You can ask for Bill Shatner, but you’re getting the wrong impression.”

Look, this has been explained to you by myself and others. You don’t believe it, that’s fine. I get that. And your particular read on it is a common (mis)conception about how this stuff works. But a large part of my job has to do with understanding how copyright works, how derivative works function, where fan art fits…

I’m not saying free of charge is fair use, I’m saying fair use is fair use. You can’t stop people from making drawings for their own amusement. Me making nice art of Ninja Turtles and putting it on Deviant Art is no different from a child doodling with crayons on scrap paper - it isn’t illegal, and is in fact…

Whether or not the artist receives any royalties on their work is up to whatever their contract is. Creators on Marvel and DC books receive payments that are like royalties, but called something else as a legal hedge against anybody demanding better shares when movies get made.

Seriously, they went from industrial revolution to computers and portable game systems in 15 years.

Amen, brother. Which is why the trend of awesome looking games deciding not to bother with a story mode is frustrating for me.

I know that my idea of “fun” doesn’t include preventing others from having it. Or mindless, endless mayhem for the sake of it. Or just going around being a punk for kicks to see how ludicrously sociopathic I can pretend to be in a game. Maybe I’m old, too. Is 34 old? Am I an old man, now? I should just hang it in and…

Just another nice visual example of why I don’t play games online. If I don’t have a buddy on the couch with controller 2, I’m gaming alone!

But, since there are a lot of cases where you can’t get old DLC as a package deal, and since there are plenty of cases where even very old pieces of DLC never see deep discounts, I can see a value to a program that lets you use what DLC you buy on whichever platform you’re playing on.

I own quite a few games on both XB360 and PC, and I bought them later on PC once my desktop could really run games well. I did so largely for the better resolution and the ability to add mods (XCOM on PC with mods can be a whole new experience). I would have enjoyed a cross-buy DLC plan for 360 because I keep wanting…

Endless respawns may have been what killed my enthusiasm for Bioshock. Allow me to explain:

Add me to the bandwagon that thinks this was never what Tomb Raider was supposed to be about. This was an action-adventure game series about exploration, puzzle-solving, platforming, and survival in harsh environments. It was about discovery! It was about awe and wonder around every corner! Now it’s just another…

Yeah, just dys-topia right ‘ere. Not dat topia, not d’other topia, just DYStopia!

This is one of my favorite things I’ve read ever. As a big supporter of Superman and a big detractor of virtually every major media presentation of Superman, you’ve done a superb job of distilling down the flaws in the arguments in favor of Batman as the superior hero. Well written, well constructed, and with some of…

I dunno. You have your experience, and I don’t doubt it’s true for you, but it contradicts the majority of what I’ve read from other devs struggling with the consoles. At the very least, it shows it isn’t a cut-and-dried issue. In any case, most successful PC games that don’t require mouse and keyboard to work…

It’s a lot harder (and more expensive) for a small studio to crack in on consoles. They’re probably testing the waters with PC, then planning to port to console if it all works out well enough.

I’m not 100% certain that ANY of his enemies know Nightwing was Robin. As to his age remaining constant over however many years, there’s a few ways it works. First and most difficult is that DC keeps mucking around with how long Batman’s been doing his thing. New52 was pretty strict on the whole “it’s only been ~5…

There was a reason for this. If “Robin” always appeared to be the same person, then Batman’s enemies would see the pair as an unending force. No change, no disruption to their presence - no matter what the villains do, there’s the same Batman and the same Robin showing up night after night.

Nicely done. A little sappy, maybe, but there’s nothing wrong with acorny pun. I wood call it a treemendous joke. Anybody who didn’t enjoy that either hates fun or must’ve had a lobotany.

You know why Hellboy always works? Why it’s been such a beloved series from day one? Because there’s nothing not awesome about a big red monster punching the red, misty sh!t out of Nazis. Nothing. It will work every time, in every style, no matter who does what with it.