None personally, though I am aware that there are cases in my area thanks to local reporting. Given the virus’ propensity for asymptomatic infections, it’s possible I’ve known someone who was infected, but was not aware of that fact.

Reading a few of your arguments here, there appears to be a contradiction.

Introducing the 30 minute mid-game intermission.

Guile is definitely off, but the shades help.

It’s likely just a coincidence, but given that they’re saying Luke is important to the franchise going forward, it’s hard not to read too much into him demoing his moves by relentlessly pummeling Ryu (who’s been important to the franchise up to this point).

Some interesting teases on those post-it notes, too.

The game was charming, and there’s any number of new stories they could tell within the existing framework, but unless they offer the opportunity of a new / substantially different outcome it seems a bit like gilding the proverbial lily?

If they acknowledge that it will eventually fail (their statement that all components eventually do), have they given any indication on how difficult it would be for the end user to fix?

A watch that boldly announces the person wearing it once had $2150.

My guess would have been they don’t want the assets from the game reused via modding, etc.  But if the agency is as tech-adverse as depicted in the article, they may not even realize that’s a possibility.

Clearly, Hallway Switch-Man is in time out for buying a Switch (OLED) when we already had a Switch at home.

Huh, I can imagine a lot of elevator pitches for movies / episodes midway through a Mass Effect Series (Mass Effect 2 as a variation on a heist movie, for instance), or even midway through the first game (with the subquests as the focus of individual films / episodes), but I have no idea how you would start it in a…

A Gargoyle, minutes before being slain by Jack: “Man, I am going to look so great in these chaps.  I’m just going to carry them around with me as I do my daily patrol of the Temple of Fiends.”

The black shirt and the white shirt were useful items in the original game. I just wasn’t expecting them to be so... literally realized in the remake.
(No, I’m not serious.)

Only in Soviet Russia.

This just in, Kotaku blacklisted from future Square Enix game reviews for leaking entire working script of new Final Fantasy game.

I didn’t have high hopes when I heard the rumors of a FF1 inspired Souls-like, and wow... I am still somehow left disappointed.  This was bad to the point of self-parody.  What were they thinking?

I can’t help but reminded of “The Producers”. It’s super cool that you were able to finance the film that way though.

Homeworld 3 was, I believe. That’s what this article seems to be about. Psychonauts 2 and Pillars of Eternity 2 were as well, as I recall reading the Fig pages about them. The thing was, as I recall, that the games had to hit what seemed like very high level of baseline success to get to the point where they paid out…

The “investing” aspect of Fig always seemed neat, but I’ve yet to see a project use it which I thought had a hope of actually achieving its revenue sharing payout targets.