Basically, it boils to down to incredibly shitty project planning that has created a culture of extreme abuse. Those inside suffer from a type of battered wife syndrome where the “love of making games” is supposed to override all other facets of life and excuses all abuses suffered. This leads to massive instability…

I worked in the industry for 3 years. Push your son away from that dream. It will sap every last ounce of passion out of him. With Steam and a burgeoning indie scene, encourage him to become a software developer to pull down the 6 figure income and have games be the side\passion hobby. Do not let him become a game dev…

Oh, so it isn’t about how good I am at something? But you just said it was the about them being the best at what they do. I am the best underwater basket weaver in the world. Where’s my check?

I am the best underwater basket weaver in the world. That’ll be $2 million please. Make the check out to Cash.

Yup, you should see some of the vitriol on display. Most of the comments are Kobe fans thinking I am trying to tear him down due to their complete lack of reading comprehension. You are the first person to comment that actually understood I was talking about the larger machinations that allow someone who plays a game…

Once again, and I am really getting tired of saying this, I said nothing about Kobe. I was, in fact, pointing out how ridiculous it is that the NBA has so much money it can throw out million dollar salaries like throwing bread crumbs to ducks, while the people the make all the things that the NBA needs to function get…

Why does Bruce Wayne look like Sterling Archer?

I guess I should clarify, I am not talking about caps in pay per se (though I would generally agree that that would be a good thing, but only if there were serious and fundamental changes to how the NBA operates that include comprehensive healthcare and retirement pensions\planning. You know, if the NBA was held to…

That janitor provides a service. Basketball players play a game invented for bored high school kids during the winter...

Again, I never said anything about Kobe.

I never called Kobe spoiled or an asshole. Quite the opposite. If I were offered millions of dollars a year to do something, you bet your ass I would do it. My point being the fact that he (or anyone) is offered the obnoxious amounts of money they make for playing a game is offensive.

I have seen that, but that was mostly due to the player spending all the money they earned. Anyone can do that, no matter how rich you are. Some go broke in heartbreaking fashion, by lending money to “friends” and family on doomed business ventures or in paying shady business advisers. A lot of which, I believe,…

Oh man, you missed it by 3 minutes.

How has no one called this a Poonami yet? Waaay better the sewnami (which looks like it would be a tsunami made of string and needles... which sounds terrifying)

No, those guys created world changing products or industry defining products. Kobe played a game. He worked exceptionally hard at it and is an exceptional player, but he is playing a game. Can you really not understand the difference? I have the same issue with competitive gaming. These kids getting fabulously wealthy…

Agreed.

Not even 40 and retiring more than comfortably... I mean, good for him, but does anyone else think that is a little fucked up? I dunno, it just doesn’t sit well with me, and it has nothing to do with Kobe. Everyone is out to get theirs and he got his, it is more the idea that someone can play a game and retire…

As a person who plays WoW of and on since release, this was painful to read (because of the noob behavior like deleting your character just to make the same exact character again...). That pet is your Hunter’s life. He soaks up damage and pulls aggro so you don’t have to take damage. You can catch other creatures and…

You missed the part where Walmart receives millions of dollars in subsidies, thereby tipping the scales of free trade\free market far into their favor. A feat small business simply cannot compete with. It is easy to have low prices when the gov’t allows you to operate far below standard operating costs through…

Economically. Read between the lines, try to glean context. Every time a Walmart is plopped in a community, over the long term the wages in that community depress while small businesses are choked and killed off. Plus, Walmart is the worst offender when it comes to subsidizing their wages with gov’t programs directly…