Yeah, for real. Oddly, I seem to remember the beetle one being one of the more decent ones. Wasn't that the one with Hinata or whatever? But yeah, even that praise is entirely relative, since it was still a stupid premise.

You'll have to mention specifics in regards to your first point, because I don't see that at all in HxH.

So you test the stuff that you're going to push before you push it. If you can't push "fix/improvement X" until it's been tested further, just don't make it part of the update. If X is literally the only thing you were going to update, then in my view, you're either not working hard enough, or you need to lengthen…

What was repetitive about Hunter X Hunter? It seems to me that they were always going off and doing new, interesting things. By the way, I feel like most of the big shonen series tend to be long and repetitive. I'd definitely put Bleach and DBZ in that group. I haven't really seen/read much of One Piece, so I can't…

Yeah, exactly! Gon can actually lose. Shit, Gon wasn't even the one who ended up fighting the "big boss" near the end.

A year and a half is a long fucking stretch, though. I mean, you're basically telling the audience, "For the next year and a half, nothing game-changing can actually happen on this show, but hey, keep watching anyway!"

Oh god, yeah. The filler. That was basically what killed Naruto for me. It's just like, come on guys, have the balls to take the show off the air while the new manga material gets produced. Barring that, at least put in some effort with the filler. I seem to recall that there was one filler arc where the enemy had a…

I think Naruto falls into that typical shonen trap of really, under it all, just being about an all-encompassing power grind. The protagonist is always training to fight the next big enemy, only to find that there's another bigger enemy just over the horizon. And the driving conflict just can't sustain the series for…

Maybe this would be too strict for a Valve guideline, but any dev team going for Early Access should have a strict update schedule and stick to it. If you push updates weekly, choose a day and always make those updates. If you do it monthly, choose a day and always make those updates. Preferably, this would be…

If it's not actually saving them money, then no, they don't have that responsibility to their investors.

If you think your house is on fire, but actually it isn't, then you're probably going crazy.

I'm not for pirating the game, but how would successfully pirating it justify Ubisoft's DRM efforts? Wouldn't it simply render those efforts pointless?

Yep. In fact, instilling the notion of "talent" in young artists is perhaps one of the worst things you can do. Because with some of them, as soon as they hit a significant roadblock, they'll just say, "Well, I guess I don't have the talent to move beyond this point" and give up. Anybody can learn to draw. It's not…

One of the things people will often do, which they shouldn't, is hold themselves back in certain ways. For example, some aspiring artists completely avoid copying other artists' work when they're learning to draw. Actually, copying is one of the best things you can do, because you're learning in an extremely…

Functions and methods are, generally speaking, the same thing. The term "method" is typically used in object-oriented languages, where the function-like entity is an action available to a class or an instance. But I've never really seen that as a semantically meaningful distinction.

It's kind of crazy, but even though I've already beaten it twice, the new-gen port of GTA 5 might be the game that makes me lay down cash for a PS4 or XB1. I always figured it'd be a new Fallout/Elder Scrolls title.

I agree, when executives make choices like this, they're doing it out of cynicism. But they're also being realistic. Mark Wahlberg would put asses in theater seats, and Fillion, quite likely, would not. There simply aren't enough Uncharted fanboys in this world to risk everything on a guy like Fillion.

This is what it looks like when a movie is in development hell. Chances are that Boal was brought on for rewrites in order to add some juice to the production (and ensure that articles like this one get written about it), but I wouldn't hold out hope that it gets made any time soon. I think the big problem with Unchart…

Because nobody in America criticizes the Soviets. No, sir. Ever heard of the "Red Scare"? McCarthyism? We ruined tons of peoples' lives by accusing them of being Communists and then blacklisting them. Soviet Russia was a greater bogeyman in America than Nazi Germany. So I don't really get where you're coming up with…

It's also Pepero Day in Korea.