BLUF and bullet points is the way to go. Everything important has to be in the first paragraph (or bulletpoint set). Because most people aren’t going to read further than that unless you hook them. The rest is support and detail.

I like the retort option. Come up with a good semi-funny response to the semi-funny comment you get all the damn time. It kindly makes the point that yes, you have heard this a thousand times before. And if they’ve heard the retort before, then so much the better!

As far as Take-Two is concerned, yes.  Rockstar obviously cared.

They screen them, like Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do for second party games. They’re not just throwing money around randomly, they’re giving it to people who have already demonstrated they can make good games (Capy) and/or had good pitches for what they wanted to make (House House for Untitled Goose Game).

You don’t own anything from Apple App Store or Google Play (or Steam, or PSN, or Nintendo Store, etc), it can go away at any moment. That war is lost. Of course there’s a certainty here that if you stop paying the $5/mo you lose everything right now, but this is the model that apparently works for most people, so I…

The nice thing about Apple’s $5/mo model is that if enough people subscribe that is actually a substantial amount of money, which Apple can then turn around and plow into paying game companies to make more games with. They’ve been giving devs millions of dollars up front to make the games that are on there now.

I am certainly miserable when I’m sitting next to bad parents who have no idea how to control their kids and no desire to do so, which I’m guessing is you.

GTAV made it clear that the real money was in milking the @#$% out of the online mode players. They can make 10x the money by putting the effort into RDRO, so that’s what they’re doing.

Oh that’s not true. I mean, it’s true if you define ‘issues’ as something that gets reported on the news or twitter, but if you’re talking ‘making the lives of everyone around them completely miserable’ there’s at least 2-4 babies/toddlers per flight, which is far more than the number of adults making complete asses…

Nope, bad parents with small kids are everywhere. You can’t escape them in business, and you can’t escape them in first class. They’re using upgrades.

I’m saying that if a completely separate game stapled on the side of the real game is good enough for people to actually want to play it, then it should be its own game with separate resources. Which is what they’re doing.

Good. I really hope stapling a multiplayer mode on to a very, VERY singleplayer game as a marketing checkbox can become a thing of the past, even if it’s a pretty good mode like TLoU had. So many millions of dollars wasted on defunct and mediocre checkbox multiplayer modes in AAA games. Don’t waste the singleplayer…

Not at all.  You may miss some references, but the opening of 2 covers everything you need to know.

This is a very safe sequel, so if you liked the first you’ll like this one (I did, so I’m happy).

You will still grieve, but you can grieve with a new cat. I’m not saying you need to go out tomorrow and adopt, but I’ve know people who have gone three years because they still felt guilty about ‘betraying’ the old pet when a new one would have done them a world of good - especially when they’re without a family,…

Awww, poor Quimby. But I’m glad you saved her from ending in agony, surrounded by family instead. I cried more when my cat of 13 years died than I have for any person (my father’s hit me harder overall, but he wouldn’t have wanted me to so I didn’t - much).

Some (I don’t want to say most, or even a lot) of the Impossible / Beyond haters are puritans who are incensed that Impossible is using heme (the main part of blood, and what gives it flavor) to make veggie food, and that most of the highly visible effort in vegetarian food development is in getting it to be just like…

My review: HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK

That iOS13 now supports PS4 and XB1 controllers, so you can use a great controller without spending another $40 on a decent generic bluetooth one, makes a huge difference (I did not know about this yesterday).

Thought he was Randy Pitchford?