I like that the implication is just that magical gods really appreciate quality badges. It is one of the most Japanese things in the whole series.

Can someone explain to me how this is a “scam” and not just a really bad product that didn’t live up to the marketing hype?

The 10 year old still trapped in my brain would like to argue that I am a Pokemon Master with all the badges and therefore it makes *perfect* sense for the flaming, house-sized bird that shoots fire from its beak to get in the ring with an Onix if I feel like it.

Old man yelling at cloud moment here, I realize, but I think I stopped caring about legendaries when gen 3 came out. Some were neat, but there were too many (imo) in that gen, and a lot of them did not feel ‘legendary’ to me (and ya’ll can roast me, the Regis are the lamest, ugliest legendaries in the first 3 gens).…

Those speeches are literally the moment. That’s when you can drop what is close to your heart, what helped you drive your work and what made working hard. It’s meant to be emotional and personal. That includes things that are for some reason considered “political”. If people don’t want to hear it, that’s another…

ushering developers offstage while granting celebrities all the time they could ask for

The time and place is where and when people are listening. The people who most like to say “time and place” are also the kind of people that will scream for Colin Kaepernick to be arrested after kneeling in protest, something HE LITERALLY CONSULTED WITH VETERANS ON TO DO IN THE MOST RESPECTFUL WAY, but then won’t bat…

No one working in this industry feels like this award show is about them. It’s a publisher clout grab. Hollywood celebs or licensed movies/shows should be miles fucking away from this thing if it was about devs and the art of making games.

So I have a theory that he cut it short for most people out of fear of them saying something “political”

The Game Awards is about Geoff Keighly’s ego, and very little else. 

Something something high seas, something something torrent.

As always, you’ll find the best deals outside of Steam. Check gg.deals or isthereanydeal.com before buying anything on Steam.

I need it to not offer up good deals, because despite the size of my library, I still see games I want, and I know I’m unlikely to actually play most of them. Someone do surgery on my brain or something.

I think the issue with HBO Max hurting the HBO brand was less that adding “Max” tainted the brand, and more that nobody knew the fucking difference between HBO Go and HBO Max and HBO was really vague about what the distinctions were. Originally if you had an HBO subscription, you ALSO had a streaming on-demand…

I’ll applaud any time Congress gets off its collective ass to do anything that isn’t blatantly self-serving and/or detrimental to the country as a whole, so let’s just call this one a win.

“But doesn’t ‘tithe’ mean ‘tenth’, as in 10%?”
“BURN THE HERETIC!!”

You know what man? That’s fine. I want to see that movie too. It does seem like Congress has things orders of magnitude more important to deal with, but since it’s all y’all can do to even keep the government open these days, may as well put your attention in Wile E. Coyote. You do you brother. (sighs, shakes head and …

As someone remarked, it’s like burning down a building for the insurance money.”

No, my son. Faith is what makes everything work optimally, and that’s why we need 15% of your income as tithing.

Oh, you're fucked now, Zaslav. The giant anvil lobby has deep pockets.