Not just the last 10 years - this has happened throughout the history of video games. And not just when the publisher goes bankrupt, either - whenever the publisher feels like it needs the money, they’re often willing to stop paying the developers (because they know that once the developer goes out of business,…

Infogrames itself went bust in 2009. This is one of the maggots that crawled from the mingled corpse-pile of Atari and Infogrames that was using its corpse as a skinsuit, after Infogrames dropped dead.

“there’s barely any connection between present-day Atari and the console giant”

If I understand the situation correctly, almost nothing. They’re one of a few hollowed-out former game publishers that got so beat up and sold off over the years that all that’s left is a few game IPs and a corporate shell that owns the titles. Developers basically come to them with games they’ve made, and the zombie…

I believe Atari is basically one of those “zombie publishers” at this point, like Interplay. They’re nothing more than corporate shells that own a bunch of game titles but have like six employees, and developers come to them with finished games, which the “publisher” then brands with one of their IPs, taking a cut of…

All I can say is that I’m gonna be pissed if this interferes with Eric McCormack working on Travelers.

“I want to be able to judge people without being judged for it.”

Perhaps they can move on and start using this to illustrate hacking:

They probably figured that if Russian movies could safely rip off Pixar, they were fine:

“WHEREAS, because mainstream American films and television treat women as objects and commodities for the viewer’s use, it teaches girls that they are to be used and teaches boys to be users; and WHEREAS, traditional American culture normalizes violence and abuse of women and children; and WHEREAS, the patriarchy…

Has he promised not to poison the kids? If so, I still wouldn’t trust him.

We’re going to get four years of Trump looking completely awkward, out of place and utterly out of his depth in the White House.

I’m trying to imagine the pictures we’ll get from the Trump White House. I suspect we’ll see a lot fewer. But we’ll mostly get Trump standing, looking awkward and ill-at-ease, Trump making grotesque facial expressions... I’m literally getting physically ill imagining it.

Also Trump is too cheap to have his expensive, off-the-shelf suits tailored. It’s Trump in a nutshell.

“What kind of fuckery is this?”

I’m not saying it’s not painful - I know it is - or that it doesn’t feel like it’ll last forever, especially when one is young. I’m just saying that a couple years isn’t an indication of anything. 10, 15, 25 years, then one can start talking about it being permanent, because it’s a much better indicator. A few years…

The two fundamental problems are that too many people have come to the area (far outstripping available housing) and tech companies are paying wages far beyond the average (and most people aren’t engineers). There are a lot of reasons for the lack of housing, one being that many cities discourage new construction -…

The homeless issue in the Bay Area is mostly not even due to gentrification, though. I live in a relatively poor area that hasn’t gentrified, and it’s increasingly full of homeless people who still can’t afford to rent here. The cost of housing has gone up everywhere, even crappy neighborhoods. There’s a general…

I’m sure eventually someone will figure out a system to make it easier to rent out floor space in people’s garages for the homeless to sleep on, if they can get a cut of it.

Homelessness is a huge issue throughout the Bay Area, and it isn’t just about areas affected by gentrification, either. I live in a working class, low-ish density (lots of single-family homes) neighborhood, and the number of homeless people has exploded. There are maybe a dozen homeless people just in the immediate…