Sounds like Maddy should be on the show more often!!!

I occasionally take a mental health day every few months. That’s when I usually get in some real time with a game. I feel some guilt for not being there for my coworkers. But while I can’t let go of it, I still enjoy those rare days. It’s also those days where I try to start a massive game. I bought RDR2, and I just…

You’re not a bad person for wanting to have a good time. You might be a bad person for being fully cognizant of injustice and going “LA LA LA, I can’t hear you, this is a fun game and nothing else matters, LA LA LA.” Enjoy the game AND be aware of the ills perpetuated to create it.

Three testers said they weren’t allowed their cell phones at their desks during the work day, and had to put them in lockers before starting their shifts, which made it difficult to deal with doctor’s appointments or other essential activities aside from their breaks.

You know how I know someone failed upwards? They think “black bars” are an aesthetic touch and not, you know, the empty space resulting from composing a shot for a wider display than the one it’s being shown on. Fuck that “top director”.

my girlfriend is not in the video game industry but had a very bad crunch time schedule the past couple months, and I could see how much it was destroying her soul.

When learning algebra and graphing functions I was always taught that you can’t draw a line through 1 data point. Adding a second data point would let you draw a line, but if you made a mistake on either of them you wouldn’t know it. When you get a 3rd data point.. then you know you’ve got an accurate trend. It’s…

Massive company innocently makes the same fucking mistake repeatedly because they don't want me to buy cyberpunk I guess?

It’s a very good thing that I got my German passport last year, not that this is why I did it. It’s one thing the Trump administration can’t take away from me.

Well, I think hopelessness is part of their game plan.  Notice how often their trolls tell us to “get over it” and “move on.”  Do some reading about the Russian intelligence services and how much of their work is psychological warfare.  We have to remain hopeful and positive about the world especially as cretins like…

Vote.

I have seen the despair of an artist that is pushed beyond their limits and it’s not pretty. To be honest, I’ve seen people develop almost PTSD-esque symptoms after crunch time.

I absolutely loathe coke. I’ve tried it a few times, every time thinking “well maybe it’s acquired taste; it’s a beloved flavor so I’ll come to like it” - no. Garbage every time. It’s like someone spilled sugar in the dirt and carbonated the result.

I don’t want to nitpick too much, and you even address the same issue within your first sentence using parenthesis, but I don’t want any reference to ‘swatting’ to be called anything other than a crime. It’s utter nonsense that it’s even something people are doing. Using language to reduce the severity of the act…

Good prequels have to be a good story to begin with. It helps A LOT if we don’t already know EXACTLY what the ending was. So Metal Gear Solid 3 is a good prequel because we know basically nothing about Big Boss and anything we find out is probably going to be interesting. First Contact War would be an iffy to terrible…

Alternately, we could not take anything from Paradox “We love enabling these fucks by not policing our mods and pretend we’re cool dudes” Interactive and everything would be better overall.

Shots are a form of social torture that unite people in suffering. They aren’t supposed to be nice - if they were, they’d be served in lowball glasses and sipped.

My friends and I once did a “dive bar tour” of our shady ass neighborhood. We picked DDs (the lucky ones) and hit four bars, had one drink, and then had one…

Kudos to the manager for having her back! She definitely needs a pouch couch or portable hammock though. 

Late stage capitalism: not only will you be forced to work yourself to the bone, but you’ll get shamed for it, too.