Maybe you could have offered the compliment without then shitting on the place the person *just* started working (and the other people who work here). Makes you sound like a really small person. This isn’t a defense or a referendum on G/O, but try having a modicum of class, sheesh.

Just checked it out, it’s a great and also exquisitely polished, presentation wise. I also find the publisher Noodlecake to have a really good track record, the stuff they publish always seems a cut above.

Incorrect. Noah is funny.

It does. Redman rules.

RdThis makes you sound insufferable, and not as intelligent as you suspect yourself to be. People with this attitude invariably have some comfort based, unchallenging tastes they have a blind spot for. You’re not an authentic unless you recognize that you spend some of your waking hours adverse to dissonance. And I…

Yeah, it’s enough to make one wish for the good old days of fawning over the Laurel Canyon sound of Dawes! (Why yes, I’m mostly rolling my eyes over here.)

Well we don’t have any information on whether anybody depends on him having a functional back for their quality of life, or who gets to do a bunch of stuff for him now that he’s physically incapable of doing it. Doing what you want and taking responsibility for it is one thing, but people are not islands. It doesn’t…

Welcome to the internet! Web pages on the internet have these cool things called hyperlinks, such as the one in the sentence you’re quoting, that can take you to a webpage that provides exactly the detail you’re whining is not being made available. Granted, this will add additional wear to your mouse in the form of…

I did not assert that. I only said consideration to open sources license compliance — which all major studios honour very carefully - *also* complicates/prevents release of server software at end of life, in addition to commerical lilicense compliance (both closed source and binary licensing). At any rate, current copy…

That “problem” often involves respecting the terms of open source libraries, almost always created by people who are the very opposite of companies. So your ill-will is misplaced, and your assumptions are incorrect.

Fair enough in that instance. Does the benefit to these small communities in the public outweigh the costs to the greater public in crafting, maintaining and enforcing legislation for old videogames and the costs to the industry to implement legal and regulatory compliance? I mean, somebody is welcome to make a…

Dedicated player-hosted servers made sense in a simpler time, on PC, before the notion and expectation of account progression existed, where there server is just serving individual game sessions. Any self-hosted progression persisting backend would just result in servers that would permit users to shortcut progression…

It’s not clear if by critic she meant person who evaluates creative works for a living or a person who is critical, although I have no doubt we could all have an argument about which one she indisputably meant if we put our minds to it. So let’s do it! Personally I’d say her following words seems to indicate “people…

My issue with a lot of this stuff stems from the unspecified economic relationship between the gamer/”time investor” and the game. Out of the objectors, how many of them are upset because they’re streamers who view “getting into a game” as an actual business investment and object to delays because of this? The way…

The driver also may have kids, who did not choose their parents or ask that they have a drinking problem. So their quality of life goes down, so that others’ quality of life is maintained. I’m real iffy on all this just because of how selectively laws like drunk driving are enforced.

“This is typical dismissiveness from adults that shouldn’t get a pass.”

I wonder if they know any of this.

My takeaway wasn’t that humans are self-centered or that in and of itself is bad/wrong - in a core way, we have to be. I guess it’s cliche, but we have to eat and sleep. It’s that when you have organizations with specific mandates that are stuck in a loop of prioritizing effort towards short term survival versus long…

I woulda thunk centrism by it’s very definition is a middle ground, often accompanied by a belief that required change unaccompanied by friction is inherently destabilizing. That it’s “half-assed” or imperfect is a known and acceptable property of it, particularly if one believes that what a just system looks like is…

A lot of people may mock paywalls, but it’s clearly a viable business model today. I pay for nytimes and the toronto star, for instance, and am happy to do so. 30 bucks total a month for high quality journalism? That’s a buck a day.