Yeah, insurance play is the only thing that makes sense. I suppose they were committed to the space and financially invested a year or more before the event, so once the pandemic started, despite having the better part of the year to see how things were going, they still couldn’t cancel without penalties. But the…

The problem is - there’s no odds to play. We know it’s not going to be better this winter. It’s been stated, outright, that vaccines currently being tested won’t be available before (mid-) 2021. If anything, things will be substantially worse, what with it being winter. Anyone paying attention knows it’s not even in…

“There are certainly alt-left groups”

That presumes they got rid of him because “sometime sucked” (rather than some arbitrary, unrelated reason, like a management issue, or because someone up the corporate ladder suddenly had a completely different idea of what the game should be like) and correctly identified him as the source of that suckitude. That’s…

If it sucks NOW, then them delaying the game and restructuring those in charge means they KNOW it sucks and are taking steps to ensure it DOESN’T SUCK.

It wasn’t all that long ago that it would have been impressive to have the kind of environments seen in the hand-built and procedurally-built areas in a first-person shooter. It’s insane to see that kind of detail in a flight sim.

Nobody is forced to go through the App Store to get their games out to iPhone users.

Maybe. I suspect you’d actually read it, at least, even if you didn’t deeply dig into it, and catch it, as pasting nonsense wouldn’t be much of an argument even for that kind of low-(no-) effort kind of situation.

The total lack of editing evident here is also weird, but the initial problem is that he did some “research” by Googling something... and then clearly didn’t bother to even read the result. He just copied and pasted it into his novel, even though it was blatant nonsense. It’s totally brainless - and other people who…

He literally googled something and slapped in the top results without even bothering to read what the hell he was writing down.

I’ve never played BOTW, I have zero familiarity with it, but these are very clearly fake plant and animal names. Also, even if you couldn’t tell that, this simply isn’t how dye is made. You don’t mix five different plants and animal parts to magically create colors that didn’t previously exist - that doesn’t make…

Clearly not an error.

“Maliciousness or incompetence?”

That, for example, no one from the Bush administration spent any time in jail already proved that, yeah... But given how egregious this administration is, how openly they violated the law, if people don’t go to jail, this country is screwed.

If Kushner doesn’t go to jail when all this is done, there’s no justice in this country.  For this and a dozen other things, including using information he got from the White House in his own dealings with foreign leaders.

It’s true - the response would have been totally incompetent, regardless. But what we ended up with was incompetence and maliciousness.  Which is possibly marginally worse than just the incompetence.

“I’m pretty sure they’d have a different development structure if they didn’t have Steam as a safety net.”

I kind of suspect even their management company is renting it for them. At multiple points they mention something about how “the owners” left something for them (piano, pinball machine).

Yeah, at multiple points, they mention how “the owners” left something behind in the house for them to use.

I can’t even hate it, because the whole thing is so fucking sad.