And you seem to be a mind-reader, albeit not a particularly accurate one.

I’m well aware what marketing is and the components of what it entails, and what marketing is meant to accomplish in addition to the obvious. The reply was as much to you as anyone else who talks about marketing as if they really know what the…

This... isn’t really a marketing issue. Maybe partially, but certainly nowhere near mostly.

As someone who does marketing as a very large part of their living, I honestly roll my eyes 85% of the time “marketing” is brought up as a reason games didn’t succeed or whatever. It’s certainly a factor some of the time, but to…

Ornamental things are fine (regardless of if the not-maker feels that they “make sense”) if they don’t impede function, and it frankly would not be that hard to reach across the table to change games. Wouldn’t need to “walk around”, at the very least, unless you have tiny T-Rex arms.

And if you *really* want to be a…

Is there a practical reason to go through extending the controller ports that way? Would seem more easily and reliably resolved via leaving that stuff as alone as possible and simply using controller extension cables instead. They’re not exactly expensive, especially in sets of 4.

It’s a rather off-putting statement, on at least two levels. I don’t disagree and honestly don’t feel dissimilar to an extent, but as written it was a great way to put a bad taste in readers’ mouth from sentence one.

Right, because she’s definitely not already doing that. Any other perception is a misguided one, frankly, that usually says far more about the sayer than anything else. Your response included.

That is exactly what I came to the article expecting, honestly.

“Ghost reportin’.”

Only when it’s lazily, clumsily, callously, and/or over-assumptively written. Even then, context clues combined with reading comprehension tends to tell the tale more than adequately. Age, experience, and recognition of common echolalic expressions also do wonders, although that stuff’s obviously a lot harder to…

Same difference, as has been long since established.

Joke is like an ogre.

I know I’m not the only one to point this out, but Four Swords is freaking incredible and was especially back in the time that it was easier to get four people, four controllers, and four Game Boy SPs and cabling together. I’m sure it can still be done at like, cons or whatever, but the moment of it being exciting…

OKAY.

(source: http://n64thstreet.com/tagged/blast-c…, as much as i hate to self-promote things i’ve done)

In related news, apparently, the Germanic “ja” isn’t pronounced like the Jamaican “jah”.

YES.

I’m sure many will ragingly conclude this, but the limited game selection suggests the more obvious one: it’s largely software-based, and will probably mirror the 360’s progressive BC cycle.

By that logic, should Wolf 3D or Hovertank been inducted before Doom?

WoW became a phenomenon, and although influenced by those who came before, it also rewrote virtually every rule in the book as defined by said before-comers. Very few games can manage to replace the previous measuring stick while also managing to…

You’ll have to wait for the upcoming expansion, NBA2K16 & Knickerbockles.

Harm reduction. Are few aware of this concept?

If you know something painful is going to happen regardless, steer the course toward the least painful vector. It’s almost always better for everyone than treating things like this as purely binary (the “say “committed suicide” or nothing at all, because my way of thinking…

You’re right. There should have been a trigger warning, as there should be with any article that includes similar hot-button trigger words among hiveminded cave-nerds, such as “feminism” and “diversity”.