I don't necessarily care about this guy having a "shock jock" persona. What bothers me is how he wants to be a shock jock type, but then turn around and adopt the persona of a serious, capital-J Journalist when it suits him. His whole point seems to be, "Yeah, I'm gonna call you all sorts of names, because I'm an…

The way I see Phil Fish is that people go to him for his opinions, and then he tells them his opinions. I don't see him jumping out, trying to get as much press attention as he possibly can. But if you put a mic in front of his face and tell him to say what he thinks, he's going to do that. And he's not the type who's…

As provocative as Fish has been in many of his statements, I feel like his longstanding critique of gamer culture is pretty much uncontroversially true. People are just gigantic, entitled assholes on the consumer end of the industry.

Well, it would probably be more like 7 years, if Activision Blizzard manages to pull the same net income it did in 2012 (about $1.15 billion). Which it very well could, no doubt! But it's not like this is just a drop in the bucket or something.

Revenue or profit? CoD actually costs money to make and market.

People just can't stop beating the dead horse. The fact is that most of the people who bitch about Sim City haven't even played it. Beyond that, the games media, several of whom were invited to lay hands on the game, generally had very positive things to say about it at that time. There was a beta period during which…

Yeah, except that's a myth.

The "Bring Back That Show We Like" sign is the best of the trio, and doesn't even have anything to do with religion.

Yeah, except for the fact that Korean government doesn't usually tolerate this sort of sidestepping, so I figure that, like the article says, the government will clamp down on this pretty quickly.

So basically all of these people are sure, based on the trailer, that Miyazaki's new movie will run counter to their ideological biases?

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God, this looks incredible.

Sure, but if the city can't declare bankruptcy, whether there's money to pay out pensions or not, the obligations still exist. If the city successfully files for bankruptcy, the obligations are wiped, leaving no chance for recovery in the future. If my retirement were dependent on those pension payouts, I know which…

Yeah, but they have to make sure that when they design the game, they aren't breaking some previously unknown taboo of the communist party in China. Oh, and they have to hope that some meme doesn't erupt after the fact in which Chinese citizens use the game's content in order to poke fun at a party official, because…

Yeah, except Podrick comes in at the last second and impales your chest with his cock. Nice try, Ezio.

Except not like Hollywood, because games aren't movies.

Video games don't have the same place in culture as movies, so a 1:1 comparison can't be made. There are much higher barriers in the video game market, because you have to get somebody to buy a console in the first place, and then you have to get them to pay $60, or whatever, for a single game. For a movie, all you're…

To what extent are game developers going to want to have to edit the content of their games in order to please the Chinese government? The machines will only sell if there are games worth playing for them. And the problem is that games likely wouldn't be rejected for the standard, predictable reasons (violence/gore,…

I was able to both create an account and purchase the game yesterday, so it's safe to say that availability has been intermittent, and that the registration/purchasing system hasn't been down consistently for a period of days.

This is precisely it. For Nutting, I don't think the project is why Celeste is the way she is, but rather describing, letting us in on, how Celeste is.