I think I can understand his intentions: he wanted a blood sample from the reserve officer to establish that he wasn’t in any way inebriated while driving that big truck. He was looking out for a fellow policeman, and perhaps helping the prosecutor when the erratic driver was taken to trial.

I don’t give a crap about Persona and I haven’t played Sonic in years, but the Animorphs cover from nyarlylicious is something I never knew I wanted until right now.

Warner Bros. yes, big business no. It’s possible to run a business without being anti-consumer, or framing profiteering moves as altruistic. WB just doesn’t do that, and here’s an excellent example of the latter.

Now you’re just being intentionally obtuse. Buzz off.

I didn’t say this was a conspiracy (what exactly is being hidden here?), and I didn’t say the company was evil. Don’t put words in my mouth.

The memorial itself isn’t the issue. That’s fairly common and entirely cool. The way the amount of donated money is contingent upon DLC sales is less than earnest. WB is “losing” money (or at least not making the most amount of money possible) either way - why turn this guy’s death into a sales pitch? Why not just put…

This would be more endearing if the company hadn’t already set up the game to make the most money possible from faux-gambling systems and holding back content for pre-orders and DLC.

You’re replying to the wrong comment. And also you’re being a dick - no one’s saying that this is somehow worse than minorities being unfairly arrested. This is a story about a professional who knows the law and a police officer who doesn’t.

no one around her is able to stop him.

What a cool mission. It must have taken some serious guts on the part of the writers to get it right, and on the developer as a whole to release it at all.

They served a venison sandwich?

As cool as their intention is, choosing to upload to a platform that’s almost exclusively for pirates seems very strange. Why not just host a direct download and put a “pay what you want” tip jar on there, or ask someone like Humble Bundle to host them? Even if you’re not morally opposed to game piracy, there’s a lot…

Hehe. So, are we still doing “phrasing,” or...

Snowball reminds me of the helper robot from the Robin Williams Absent-Minded Professor remake.

That red plate really is jarring, like a mid-century sofa in an IKEA apartment. I’m going to offer a completely unsubstantiated guess that Hyperkin found a big discount lot of them somewhere and didn’t bother to change the color.

I can see what you mean, but I still think sticking to only fixed cameras if your environment is 3D is detrimentally self-limiting. Consider Metal Gear Solid as an excellent compromise: the camera is mostly top-down following the player character at an ideal distance, but switches to specific angles for corners or…

People pay for convenience, sure. But a fast food item is a physical product, a tangible item with a set value that’s difficult to manipulate. A game is entirely digital and entirely capable of manipulation... which is the entire point. Asking people to pay to skip the content that you created for the sake of playing…

“A large number of modern games with RNG loot elements correlating to an in-game currency give you the option to also purchase said RNG loot with real money.”

Sticking with the fixed camera angles is an odd choice if they’re redoing pretty much everything anyway. That’s a bit of gaming history that we could let die without any ill effects - it’s like including a crank start in a new sports car as part of its “retro” appeal.

The presence of the microtransactions is all I need to claim that there are incentives in place to buy them. It would be stupid for them to be built into the game and then made completely useless - name a single title where microtransactions are present without an incentive to pay more. You’re basically saying that WB…