A metaphor for life, almost.

Do not utter those words. I hear they attract bears.

And then there was the piranha incident. Not long after shipping Populous, Molyneux came to the team with some great news: the game was selling well, and they'd all be getting bonus checks. Everyone was stoked—except one Bullfrog employee, Simon. "His bonus check was like £3,000, or $5,000 back in those days," said…

Molyneux, who is 54, has the lanky frame of someone half his age. He has big ears and a giddy-yet-serene smile, resembling a kindly schoolteacher, or a reformed Bond villain. If someone turned his life into a biopic, he'd be played by Ben Kingsley. He talks in slow, deliberate sentences, his enthusiasm only muted by…

Just to give an example from the Sega side, Sega got much, much better by the Genesis years, but for the Master System, the Mark III, they were making shovelware. They were convinced that they would be successful by making more titles than Nintendo. When I joined Sega they had 40 titles. Three months to make a game...…

Haha it was actually a decent card, but no one fucks with 3Dfx. That company will be around forev... what? Oh.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Had to write papers on both of those anime. Ugh.

But all I have is an S3 Virge...

Modders should get ready just in case, anyway.

Oh good god yes.

Points for trying though. RANKAAAAAA!

I was secretly hoping it was Kuramochi Minoru from Sasuke. They're almost the same age!

I totally don't regret getting a D in my college Astrology course because of my time spent playing Grandia 2. Who needs science anyway.

Yeah... about the narrative thing. I'm hoping to post something on TAY about that soon. I think I ragged on their marketing team too hard... it's for me it's kind of like poking fun at family; in a harsh yet endearing way. But I agree that they've done a heckova job crafting that narrative, and I'll let my article…

I think you give Sony's marketing team too much credit. When I said that they were "ruled by conservative suits overseas," it meant that those suits compelled SCEA to rely almost entirely on market research data. There wasn't much room for creativity. SCEA basically could only do whatever the numbers indicated, and…

Unless you're Stephen Elop.

No, he came as Michael De Santa.

I totally know what you mean. I swear the man lives there or something. Well... until April 1st, anyway.

Honestly, I've been oblivious to Sony fanboy vitriol, probably because I don't criticize Sony much, but I can see how they're coming at you, and for that you have my sympathy. All anyone has to do is think "I'm not a fanboy," and they'd all magically stop being upset with you, because "fanboys" are the only group…

Tends to be a complementary feature of the action and outcome described.