Equal measures fascinating and depressing. I’m confident the general outline is: Rocksteady protoytpes compelling single player experience. Executive swoops in like a month before planned beta and decides it should be a live service game. At that point, it’s too labor intensive to develop loot for truly unique…

This is exacerbated by unsatisfying collisions. Everything feels so flimsy or ephemeral, like everyone is made of paper or light. The rest of the physics is usually pretty floaty to boot, so it all becomes ungrounded.

The very obvious unintended consequence will be people writing bad reviews just to get a response from Bethesda.

Game Awards have all sorts of problems, but they most unfortunately suffer from the “If it’s not in GOTY contention (or at least sniffing it), it will be overlooked in technical categories.” Academy Awards have this problem big time, where an overlooked or even bad movie cannot win for something like costume design,…

You can authenticate your membership to overpriced clubs and restaurants ... which, oh wait, you could totally do before with, like, a driver’s license or whatever. Or authenticate valuable objects like taxi medallions in NYC which ... oh wait, this wasn’t a problem before NFTs either.

For me elemental resistances are the worst and least imaginative. Set aside that they don’t currently work, you REALLY don’t want to invest in damage prevention against a specific elemental type in a game where mobs are just a hodgepodge of arbitrary elemental damage types. If they were going to bother at all, they…

You're not. Best Nintendo tutorial ever. It's long, but it isn't a tutorial really so much as core gameplay with friendly robots who will explain stuff. It is fun in its own right and very challenging for a first area, especially in a Nintendo game. They've finally grown up. 

The bigger issue Luke is that you’re missing the forest for the trees. Set aside the ethics of whether we should displace working human artists with AI — the technology is already more capable in many arenas that a healthy percentage of humans, writing included, and is improving at a seemingly exponential rate. It’s…

One workaround is to not require all of the abilities in the early game content. Celeste is a good example of this, where you basically do everything but really only discover a use of much of the movement tech in the later levels, or put another way the later levels become much more demanding and so teach you about…

Also just to add ... the fact that these are professional developers coming out of a corporate environment makes it far less likely they are committing IP theft. Sure, it happens, but they had to understand the repercussions and scrutiny they’d be under. These aren’t amateurs or angsty teens with a grudge.

OK, let’s make this simple: It is very possible to make lots of money selling something that is inherently addictive and bad for people, e.g., Fentanyl. Just because we live in a world where one can legally sell this thing doesn’t mean it’s ethical.

I straight up wish more mobile apps charged money. Especially now that I’m older, I will gladly pay to not endure ads or freemium nonsense. I’ll also gladly pay to ensure the developer has revenue to continue development.

If you’re not implementing into first-party Nintendo titles, why bother? Those are what people are emulating on PC, because they’re exclusive to the Switch platform. In what universe is anyone emulating a Switch port of a AAA PC game (it isn’t like indie titles use Denuvo)? If you’re desperate to pirate it, you’d just…

So, it’s very confusing. The way it works is you have to have the Netflix app installed but they’re actually independent apps. Basically Netflix app just verifying you’re a subscriber (and hosting the store links) as far as I can tell. 

Thank you for calling out decorum. People instinctively react negatively to, say, an activist showing emotion about an issue or swearing. But a Fox broadcaster can calmly express ideas that amount to advocating racial genocide and nobody bats an eyelash. Ditto politicians.

Agreed. It’s insane how people jump from “I shoplift” to “Shoplifting is ethical and anyone who says otherwise is a monster.”

I shared it/some of his research with several friends/family considering going hard into crypto. I’d also point out there were a lot of spin-off/rip-off/follow-up videos to Dan’s that have hundreds of thousands of views. Given that there’s probably decent overlap between people with the tech awareness to even consider…

The NFT market is straight flatlining. What you’re describing is a pump and dump scheme, and because the blockchain is entirely unregulated, investors can straight up buy their own shit (or sell it to their friends) to make suckers like you feel like the investment is doing well.

Bottom line, no one should have sympathy for anyone trying to get rich through speculation. It’s gambling. You want to become rich by doing no work. Why on Earth should anyone give a flying fuck about you?

I loved the game, but yeah. I missed this one the first time because of the widespread rendering bug that caused enemies/characters to be invisible (they kind of fixed it). So ... I just became frustrated because I assumed this was an invisible character model and didn’t want to randomly click around the empty space.