Which is how the vast majority of both employees and contractors get paid.  Most people who get paid for work, be it hourly, salary, employed or contract, don’t get a breakdown of what their work product is billed at.  If I’m building a house and I hire a guy to paint it, and he wants $2,000 for the work, I pay him…

I think just randomly tickling the same kid is creepier. Especially, if as posited in the article, the kid is cranky and some family member would just prefer it if they looked happy. But the point isn’t that one episode of non-consensual tickling is going to ruin a kid, but that by always asking, you’re teaching them…

Which is clearly not the case here, since “ludonarrative” is literally the word coined to describe exactly what this trophy represents. Using the precise word isn’t smug, it’s communication. (And, in this case, really damn funny.)

Anti-intellectualism is such a sad and potentially destructive trend in our culture.