“Democracy is working because this is what more than half the people wanted.”

“I truly prefer the old layout from 3 or so revisions ago”

I’m probably just projecting, because I want nothing more than to just crawl in a hole and ignore the world for the next four years... and however long after that the US remains fucked up beyond recognition.

“What, were they screening with a super-8 projector at Eyes Wide Shut parties?”

That’s very, very true. But I do see people hoping for magical solutions, and that’s not going to happen. We’re going to have to fight, we need to start now, and it’s going to be ugly.

I suspect the content of the tape may not be what he claims as well. It might not be that much more appalling than what Trump has publicly said, which is bad enough...

To start with, there’s Moore’s Law. With games, that meant that games could (and were expected to) double in complexity every 18-24 months along with the hardware. (Or at least it did in the earlier days of 3d gaming. That’s become more complicated in recent years, but the pattern is still fundamentally true.) …

He said hundreds of people saw it, not that they had copies. Presumably he’s claiming there’s one copy that got passed around/seen in groups.

I’ve been thinking about this whole “Maybe the electoral voters won’t vote for Trump!” as “Maybe it’s not really cancer!” No, it’s fucking cancer. I don’t blame people for not wanting to face it. But it’s time to get chemo and prepare for hair loss and all the other shit; time to fight and hope we’ll survive. …

Traditionally, “independent” has just meant (and definitely means in this context) “a studio not owned by a publisher.” (Technically Valve is an independent studio, but this is pushing the definition.)

It seems like what you’re saying is that it failed precisely because of that dynamic. The amount of content is a budget issue. They had to push out something half-baked and move immediately on to creating DLC revenue streams to stay afloat. They didn’t have the money/staff/time to produce the amount of content you’d…

Yeah, I could believe frame rate issues. And if that’s the case, I could also see frame rate potentially being a problem with Unreal or other engines too, on the Wii U, given that it is rather underpowered. It probably comes down to, “We would have to make a special, optimized-for-Wii U version, which is just money…

“The AAA boxed product is just not a welcome home for independent developers. It’s now a nearly impossible proposition, actually.”

“I’m guessing it was due to engine choices.”

Counterpoint: this constitutes proof that there is, but he’s a sick, sick bastard.

Yeah, Voice of American and Radio Free Europe will be Trump’s personal foreign propaganda entities, just as Breitbart will be his domestic propaganda entity. (Assuming TrumpTV never takes off.) Fact-free programming.

“Look, I’m somebody who gets it, and nobody really knows.”

I think it’s safe to say that Trump is the least prepared, least educated, least intelligent person to ever take the office.

tRump is sort of a variety of different ages depending on the particular aspects you examine. So he’s the self-centered, narcissistic, fabulist sociopath that small children tend to be. He is also a bully, of course, and he does manage to hold a grudge a lot longer than a child would (thus making it one of his rare…