What he did wasn’t just dumb, it was a crime. Pretty sure that’s going to be against Twitch’s terms of use.  It’s only by dumb luck that no one was injured, so that’s no defense - someone else could have been in the house, the bullet could potentially have penetrated a window or wall and even hurt someone outside, etc.…

I know - just that short video clip is making me nauseous.

Yep. GDC is less than a week. Just short enough that people are desperate to try to cram in as many meetings and social events as possible, maximizing exposure (and minimizing sleep and immune health...). And what’s insidious about this virus is that for young healthy people, many of them, even when they finally are…

They might end up having to kick the can down the road again

There was another thing they could have done - cancel it outright. Which will probably turn out to be the thing they should have done, and will end up doing, eventually. But they were being optimistic and reacting to the uncertainty of the situation. (While not really considering that the short time-frame to…

It does - but by far the most at-risk group is the older demographic, which is under-represented in the game industry thanks to its terrible work conditions. Younger, healthy people are far less likely to die from it - but it’s been pointed out that game developers may skew young, but not so healthy...

Yeah, that’s true... in my experience, the game industry creates serious health problems in its workers (though those health problems often eventually force them out, too, at least in the US). I wonder how healthy the work-force is, compared to the average...

I would think that would just complicate things - as now they’re in the position of rescheduling and then probably still cancelling it later, which doubles their problems. I don’t think they thought it through enough - it was just a knee-jerk reaction to all the cancellations and the uncertainty right now, while being…

Yeah, if the situation is (miraculously) clear enough to allow one of those events, they’re all going to happen, and now GDC is competing with those pre-existing commitments. And although in theory GDC is an industry event for recruiting, networking, giving talks, pitching middleware, etc., in reality there’s also a…

I suspect it’ll be a hard sell to get people to come later. The fundamental situation won’t be any better. Companies will have other commitments. Plenty of people must have lost significant non-refundable travel costs by changing the date, and committing to a second event (which also may not happen) would get really…

2-3% is the fatality rate often mentioned. (It’s probably lower, but it’s unclear at this point what it actually is.)

Though here’s where age discrimination in the game industry works in its favor - GDC skews very young, so there aren’t a lot of people in the most at-risk groups to be found there. (Of course, they can still pick up the virus and carry it home to friends and family who won’t be so lucky...)

Yeah, I’d expect the situation in the summer to be worse. Given that there are hardly any cases right now, it’s not going to get any better, at least in terms of the outbreak here, though it might for some of the areas that are sending people.  So a cancellation seems most likely.

It is dumb, but it’s also kind of necessary, for the same reason movie studios don’t release multiple movies at the same time - they don’t want to end up competing with themselves. They’re releasing a lot of games and the schedule is set years in advance, so they can’t just change the release date without having…

But the most limited dictionary definition of “political” involves public affairs, so his statements are dumb even in that context. Claiming that somehow public arguments and decisions about what kind of rights people should have isn’t political is not a supportable position, though. I mean, Chick-fil-a, for example,…

I rolled my eyes pretty hard just at how game development was being presented in the ads for this show. I don’t think I could sit through the gross inaccuracies of an entire show. I just expect I’ll not only be bothered by details that are wrong, but that I’ll spend some time screaming at the screen, “But that doesn’t…

The perceived “racist baggage” is only there if you’re trying really, REALLY hard to find fault and manufacture a little internet faux-outrage.

Yeah that “defense” struck me, too. He only “partially” supports a fascist party. He’s not a “radical fascist,” he’s just a regular fascist (as if “radical fascist” wasn’t redundant). And he’s not “aggressive” towards anyone (in person), i.e. he doesn’t physically or verbally assault anyone who is in a position to…

Star Wars obviously has always taken place in a fairy-tale fantasy universe, not the real one. There’s clearly air in space there - previous movies have shown there are animals that live in space and sound propagates in it, after all. (Also, based on events from the various movies, everything is much smaller than in…

I keep waiting for game devs to realize that, for soldiers burdened with modern military gear loadouts, if you don’t look at soldier’s faces, you can’t tell the men from the women. The gear is bulky and obscures the body - only faces and height give away the sex of the soldier (and not always then, either). Even…