How would residuals work out if they got them I wonder. Is it just ports that count or would voice sample used in later works also be affected?

Again, if this were “wasted money,” and not just something that doesn’t float your particular boat, you’d know it, because they wouldn’t put voice acting in games anymore. But hey, maybe now that these concessions are in place, we’ll see your suggestion proven true, with fewer and fewer games including voice acting.…

People are bored out of their heads because they lack motivation in the present context. Perhaps a well-made “educational video game” can help them develop that motivation, but the bottom line is that, if any method of education fails to kick-start that motivation (or if intrinsic motivation doesn’t already exist) in…

If nobody cared, they wouldn’t have gotten most of their concessions from these game companies. That’s all the proof you need to demonstrate that your “spitballing” is absurd. Of course, you already know that, and likely just have an ideological ax to grind against unions.

It may be a Catch-22, where gamers are toxic (in regard to devs) because devs are so tight-lipped, and devs are tight-lipped because gamers are toxic toward them. One side has to disarm first, and the most likely candidate for this is the devs.

Who genuinely cares?

Is it on record that she gave him up because he was half-black?

Question: if Sansa’s rape had instead been witnessed by another victim of rape at Ramsay’s hands, do you imagine that seeing her response would have been crass or out-of-place in the scene? I ask this because Theon isn’t just any old guy witnessing the act. He is well-established (better established than any other…

“We’re seeing Theon and hearing Sansa” and “Theon is out of focus that entire time” is extremely disingenuous.

If the climax of a brutally long rape scene is Theon’s reaction, then yes, clearly that will be the takeaway focus that people will talk about.

I think you deeply misunderstood a lot of the criticisms about that scene. People weren’t criticizing it because it was “salacious” or “titillating”— they were criticizing it because the focus of Sansa’s rape and torment was to develop Theon’s “man pain”, which is an extremely tired and offensive rape trope in cinema—…

Mmm, I disagree. To take a concrete example, the infamous Sansa rape scene in GoT. The main criticism there was how it was portrayed, not that Ramsay would be the kind of person who rapes women.

Again, it’s not about being “woke”. I never claimed rape etc shouldn’t exist in those universes. It’s about not sensationalizing it over and over and over again because “we make gritty realistic shows here at HBO.”

If we decide to hate things based on their most obnoxious proponents, then I hate all religions, all nations, all races, every consumer device, every great band, every great film, and the vast majority of everything and everyone to ever exist.

Who fucking cares? It’s a TV show. Seriously. I agree that these people are (probably, since I’m not intimately acquainted with the show or its community) dicks/dickish. Lots of fan-based communities are. But the notion that this topic even remotely matters, in any capacity whatsoever, is absurd. People need to stop…

You’re not schooling me on anything. You’re confusing rate of adoption for the seriousness with which companies treat the product as a commercial enterprise. The earliest, least adopted mp3 players were nevertheless taken seriously by the companies that created them as a commercial enterprise. My argument is that VR…

There’s a difference between (1) a type of product starting out less popular, only to become more popular over time and (2) a product not being taken seriously as a commercial venture by the companies making/researching it because they imagine X amount of time must pass before it’s ready.

Actually that was how it was for all consumer electronics.

Not really VR is still in its infancy - it would need two or three generations before it really becomes part of the mainstream consumer experience.

The big problem with VR is there is virtually no mainstream attempt to do anything genuinely transformative with the technology re: games.