It’s a matter of economics. AAA games have exploded in development cost; sales haven’t kept up. So there’s a lot more risk, and even “successful” games, that a few years ago would have been smash hits based on their revenue, barely break even (at best). A failed game can destroy a publisher (when once upon a time, a…

Trump is just speaking from personal experience. No one has ever had a relationship, much less marriage, with Trump motivated by love (except a love of money), and he knows it. Plus, with Trump, projection always plays a part. As a sociopath, he doesn’t care about anyone else - certainly not his trophy wives - and…

And my point is: it wasn’t shut down because Kotaku wrote about it. Kotaku wrote about it because it had become well known. Being well known also caused it to get shut down. If it got shut down within a day of the Kotaku article, the company was aware of it and sending lawyers after it before the Kotaku article was…

They get shut down within the day when you do.

Kotaku only covers things like this that are already well-known. Nintendo knows about it already.

Yeah, trademarks have to be defended everywhere, otherwise they don’t function. (The whole point of a trademark is that it distinguishes your product from someone else’s.) However, trademarks aren’t necessarily infringed by fan projects, though. (If that were true, there could be no fan art of big corporate properties…

Yeah. I frequently see Trump supporters talk about how he “must” be smart, because after all “he won the election.” As if he didn’t win the election by conning people dumber than he is into voting for him (and getting illegal foreign help). That so many Americans are both so dumb and racist is so depressing, so…

If the US gov’t really did capture some aliens or whatever the fuck, that soup-brained moron would’ve said something about it by now.

At this point it’s pretty clear: he’s terminally incurious and incapable of accurately retaining any information (especially if it’s not flattering to him). He’s in a state of perpetual ignorance. At best he’s got scraps of misremembered/made-up information that reflect well on him (or put his opponents in a bad…

people at all levels of government with access to classified information actively withhold information from him

A number of states leave it entirely up to the worker to get the money back in court; they literally don’t do anything about wage theft at all. (And since the cost of going to court is usually more than the wages to be recovered, and since it’s almost impossible to actually get the money even if you win in court,…

And “approval” is also perhaps too strong a term here - only 4% had “some trust” in Trump.

Hey, a 2017 survey there “found that just four percent of respondents had some sort of trust in the president.” Four whole percent! Granted, that’s not the 90% that Obama had, but four percent had some trust in him.  I can’t imagine his own family feel that good about him.

 

Well, we are getting the story second-hand, so it may have been translated from Trumpanese.

Plus, the whole “they love me in the Netherlands” bit is a pretty obvious lie. (They really really don’t like him in the Netherlands, and never did. He only had something like a 4% approval rating there at the time.) Nor could we really imagine a president wanting to take over and empty a museum on its busiest day,…

Knowing Trump’s history regarding racial matters, I’m not sure why he was expecting something different.

“Even for just-starting-out freelance work, on-the-side work, extra-bonus-money work, $20 for 3 hours is really low.”

The much-mocked ad...

The thing about the exclusivity of the Epic store is, it’s temporary. So developers/publishers get to have the game on Epic for a while, getting a higher percentage of the sales revenue than they would on other platforms, and then they get to relaunch the game, after the exclusivity period runs out, and make up the…

It isn’t really about the money she was paid at the time - it’s the fact that she’s apparently still a big name in porn, with popular videos that obviously are continuing to make somebody a fair amount of money, just not her. Residuals should be a thing for performers in this situation.