As a former QA tester at Activision, thank you for mentioning the work disparity between devs like Schofield and the chronically overworked/underpaid “grunts” that put their hearts and souls into the thankless task of making the games playable.

And Good Burger restaurant is a stage.

First of all, I want to say that I’m absolutely all for people enjoying games and being able to play and experience them. I’m all about inclusivity and, particularly, accessibility. As a person with a physical disability, I understand that not being able to participate in something is more than just frustrating or…

There are variables to this, as with everything. As an aging gamer, I want to play games to have a little fun and wind down, not keep smashing my head against a digital wall between me and the story the game is trying to tell to the dismay of the controller creaking in pain between my verge-of-rage-quitting hands. If…

You’re belittling art as being nothing more than a mass produced product. You’re using the wants of certain audiences as justification for being owed changes to art that the artists might not want to make.

Exactly. At a certain point, you can set up the gameplay to make beating (or completing. Or finishing. Or whatever term the author finds socially acceptable) a game the equivalent of watching someone else play it on youtube. I see a great example of how difficulty impacts gameplay and the overall experience when I…

People have a similar debate about film. Almost every film is shot in such a way that you are supposed to experience it in a theatre, and some films actually have very specific technical accommodations that the filmmakers would like you to have access to when you are viewing the film (sound, color-grading, whatever).…

Thanks! And thank you for being, you know, the rare person on the Internet willing to actually consider the opinion of someone coming at a question from a different perspective than their own!

I think it’s important to start with the understanding that while a high level of difficulty is core to the design of some games, it’s not for most (and that really hasn’t been the case since the early ‘90s when publishers were still trying to make games harder in the US to combat the rental market). There are many…

It took me a minute to identify what made that footage feel so much better, and I think it really all came down to a sense of weight and momentum. It also helped that the characters all felt really expressive in their movements.

Just clean up once a day? How hard is that? 🤔

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Finally! I was getting worried she'd never be found. That's some great news right there.

That’s absolutely fantastic. 

“disrupts *cough* into an existing service”

Musk doesn’t have $170 billion. Yes, he’s filthy rich, but come on here, he doesn’t have $170 billion. When you guys say shit like this, it undercuts your argument. It comes off as you being disingenuous, so what other things are you being disingenuous about that I might not realize?

Is it bad that I have been reading your name on the bylines for the past 2 weeks and it’s not even clicked that you went and came back? You’re one of the names that just seems so natural to see on an article here that I think my brain flashed back to 2017 and refused to realise you hadn’t been ever present over the…

Yay! Patricia’s back! Yay!

It just goes to show that many of these cosplay socialists online are just like the “capitalists” they hate the second they realize they’re on the right side of the grift.

I think the worst thing about all of this is that ultimately, GameStop as a company didn’t deserve to live on and was better suited to die. They have a well documented history of mistreating their employees, their trade-in value has always been a meme laughing stock, and the garbage company LEGIT was designated “an…