Can a senior citizen withstand the nuclear option?

This is what happens when a bunch of people who continually rally against ‘bureaucracy’ actually have to think about a working system, or even one fraction of one. They can’t. They’re surrounded at all times, their entire lives, by aides and admins and people who’ve always done the actual work for them.

“The next Dragon Age is going to be a “live service” game, but what does that mean for a story-heavy RPG?”

Well, enjoy Anthem, I guess?

I mean, this is an important lesson anyone can take away in general, for whatever kind of work they’re doing - expectations are loaded things. Failing to meet them can cause disproportionate anger, when a thousand other mediocre-or-worse games will disappear without comment.

I’m not angry, but I mean, even if the Mass Effect audience did let it go, they then got hit with Andromeda.

Oh goddamn it there’s another sixty dollars gone.  Why do I have to like so many characters on the roster.

Huzzah.  Can’t wait to finally play it!

Future generations will look at how we handle issues of loneliness the way we look at the idea of bleeding to treat fevers.

It could go any number of ways.  Kid might grow up as a carbon-copy, or rejecting everything the parents believe.

There aren’t enough stars in the sky for all the reccommends this deserves.

Mergh, trying and failing to link to that gif of grandpa with the crutches. >.>

Ugh, sounds awful. Upselling was so bad - people were already annoyed at the concession prices, they’d never do anything but get angry when I had to push bigger combos.

Wow, the movie theater chain I worked at (Celebration Cinema) let employees come in and see any matinee free by themselves in their off hours with discounted snacks, and you could bring a friend in for free for the midnight employee pre-screenings when new movies showed up.

Yeah I think it’s going to take considerably more processing power or some sort of brand new paradigm to get procedural generation to anything near Naughty Dog levels of quality.

Hail to the king. 

Most writers underestimate, especially if a plot thread ends up being more interesting than they thought it would be. I imagine something as structured as Shonen Jump has a smaller margin for error, but it’s hardly an exact science.

Historically, we’ve had some really well-thought out and planned atrocities, but indifference and incompetence will do in a pinch.

The problem is when companies decide the future is now and implement things that can screw people, like always-on requirements.