.... *closes steam to hide hours spent in Warframe* yeah >_> <_<, how could someone spend that much time in a game. *is thankful Minecraft doesn’t record time spent*

Not at literal gunpoint, but they are, figuratively. Game dev is the career they wanted. This is what they do for a living. Crunch is forcing brutal work hours by coercion of job security; you either meet your employer’s demands, or wind up on the chopping block in the next quarterly review.

I’m normally a fairly staunch defender of copyright; I make part of my living through my own copyrighted materials, and will call my lawyer with the quickness to protect my IP from infringement (because failure to protect copyright can weaken a claim to the same).

That said, even I feel like there has to be room for…

If you feel like games are cheaper and better a year later, maybe stop buying them the day they come out?

Why do the victims have to “nut up or shut up?”

Nope. Fuck that. “She’s a woman on the Internet, she should learn to deal,” is not a valid response.

Shitbags need to either learn to be better people, or get their shit tuned up. The onus is never on the victim, ever.

That said, it’s really kind of heartbreaking to hear Smedius say, “And I know, I should’ve known about this whole thing...”

It is broadly true that “haters” are an inescapable part of any public-facing position; no matter what you do, no matter how much good you do, or no matter how fundamentally disconnected you are from a perceived problem/irritant, there will always be a vocal minority of dickheads who will feel the need to shit in your…

I beg to disagree, sure it can be unrealistic but to show constraint and moderation in your imagined worlds is respectable, and when it comes to video games; Immersive. To me at least.

(see? I used “rocks”. that proves I’m an old fart)

Damn, that’s pretty good.

Nice.

who would deliberately damage their only way home?

A monster that just put its baby monster to sleep in the next room? Or any of a jillion other possible reasons.

 neat! I wrote this exact program in about a half a day for an acquaintance of mine with an interest in searching for key cipher encrypted messages in the writings and music of Edward Elgar.

You’ve clearly never had a Miller Lite.

“Brilliant technical person has absolute dumpster-fire of a personality! News at 5:00"

You know what is awesome? Not putting a spoiler on the MAIN PAGE where it is impossible to avoid: