I guess the argument (that’s not explicitly being made) is that gamers have especially toxic responses because only some developers are transparent, but if all developers were transparent, gamer responses would magically change to be better. I don’t buy it - for one thing, not all the movie industry is that…

“We’re suing their journalists,” he said.

Well, from what I’ve read, they haven’t agreed to suspend anything. They’ve said they no longer need to test the bomb and missiles (and there are reasons why, for example, they are no longer using their test site, as mentioned elsewhere in the comments). That may be simply true, as well - they now feel confident in…

We’ve been here before. As the Guardian newspaper put it back in 2015:

“But Valve will want to see a ROI.”

Publisher expectations are based on milestone agreements hashed out between studio and publisher, though. Tradition dictates that studios deliberately underestimate how long it will take to hit milestones (with the expectation that they can weasel more time out of publishers) and publishers play along (with the…

I’ve actually seen “giant dwarf” in game materials before - both as comedy (a regular-sized person) and serious (a giant with dwarf proportions). The neural net is actually re-creating previously invented game monsters.

I think it’s because:

To be fair, sometimes correlations are complex and not obvious nor revealed by superficial research, and other factors can mask impacts. Ok, this isn’t one of those times, and there’s no connection between video games and violence, but...

The video game correlation with shooters exists but is meaninglessly absurd - most mass shooters are young men, young men play video games, many of those games are violent. It’s like saying, “Hey look what these shooters had in common - they all watched television!” (When 99% of American households have televisions.)

Did they actually invite anyone else (who could make it)? The White House announced the meeting, then invited game industry people at the last minute. I’m not sure if anyone declined or just couldn’t make it.

“they thought the other side were the ones who wanted to censor video games”

Of course we can predict what will happen, based on all similar events:

I don’t think the alcohol is mixing well with his anti-depressants, either.

It’s the usual Trump modus operandi - starting from a position of complete, total ignorance, he says what he thinks will resonate with his base, even though it’s completely impossible to achieve. (Being totally ignorant, he doesn’t know that, nor care.) Then, thinking that he can convince everyone that he actually…

“Trade wars are good, and easy to win,” the president tweeted today.

Yeah, there’s something like 140K steelworkers vs. 6.5 million that rely on steel. (The disparity is even worse with aluminum.) That doesn’t even count those who indirectly rely on imports, e.g. the beer companies that just announced there would be layoffs if aluminum (and therefore can) prices went up.

“you just >know< he has at some point asked if we can just declare bankruptcy on the trade imbalance.”

“HE IS TERRIBLE AT BEING A BUSINESSMAN!”

It’s just amazing to me that the NRA keep saying that they don’t want mentally ill or dangerous people to have guns, yet they’re so transparently lying. Laws to prevent that sort of thing are exactly what they’ve made efforts to block - not just the mental health issue (which is kind of a red herring - there’s no…