That would be the daycare.

I think the problem is that the "dialogue" from the fanbase side of the equation is inherently tainted when it comes to things like online play. All you'd ever get is a wall of kvetching over DRM and blah blah blah, so I'm not sure the dialogue would actually be constructive in the end. And this is why I hate a lot of…

1. Fair point! Again, that might make the experiment a failure, but it doesn't invalidate experimenting to begin with.

The thing is, you're not wrong. And the "update" to the Not Yet review is a cowardly whitewashing move. If you actually read the original review, it's quite positive, and it's clear that the Not Yet is only really there because of the server issues. Only months later, in what appears to have been a hastily scrawled…

There was a good reason for online with SimCity. They wanted people to play together. They wanted that to be part of the core experience, and not just an optional thing on the side. You can argue about whether they succeeded or failed at that—I personally have a mixed response to the effectiveness of their push to get…

I really, really don't get the critical whitewash going on vis a vis the online requirement. You guys fucking KNEW it was going to be an online game from the outset. They announced that pretty much when they announced the game. This wasn't something EA/Maxis sprung on players. The initial outrage was that the servers…

Yeah, you're totally right. Bitcoin has absolutely no problem with volatility.

If he doesn't lawyer up and file defamation charges, he's full of shit.

I remember hearing it on the local college radio station way back when I was in high school. It was one of those underground singles that never really got far out of NYC, so I was pretty lucky to catch it at the time.

The perfect opportunity to post this gem of a track, which samples the Price Is Right theme.

Unfortunately, that quote has been pulled out of its original context, and will continue to be used by people like you to mean something far different than what it meant when Stephen Fry actually uttered it.

But The Last Of Us, a PS3 exclusive, gets GOTY? Not sure the console exclusivity of the title is any excuse for essentially forgetting about it (even though Kotaku, and almost every other outlet, gave it major praise). I blame a combination of short memory and the fact that it came out right at the beginning of 2013.…

I was kind of blown away to see that it only made it onto one of the individual lists. Not sure why or how that happened, because Ni No Kuni is a first rate RPG, and a first rate game in general.

You know what's absurd? That Ni No Kuni only made ONE of these individual lists.

You can kill Clickers with one shiv by grabbing them from behind, or you can use a blunt object like a pipe or a stick, or of course, there's always a gun.

Why do people who make gaming videos always have the worst taste in music?

They don't harm kids because they don't know how to be parents. They harm kids because they don't give a shit about being parents. No licensing system would ever be able to properly ensure that one gives a shit about being a good parent. Plenty of people get drivers' licenses and end up killing people because they…

That great. But I don't get a "hopeful"/shine the turd vibe from Fahey's original review. What I see is essentially a "Yes" contingent on servers being fixed. That's what's at issue here for me.

But see, the thing is, not only did the critics get a fairly extensive preview of the game, in addition to playing it post-release, but the open beta was quite extensive too. Maxis even encouraged players to put up "Let's Play" videos on Youtube, and there were literal shit-tons of them. So I don't think there's much…

The initial review wasn't a "prediction." It was a review of the game. Read it again. Fahey's view definitely wasn't that this was a "turd" that required polishing. He basically thought it was a very good game, marred primarily by server issues.