Just had to do all of this because of what turned out to be a motherboard failure; The thing to remember, and calm those nerves, is that all the modern parts going back a fair few generations have unique asymetrical slots cut in them, so you can’t get the parts into the wrong place or the wrong way round.

“b) there’s a practical sense of at some point people have to have the God-given sense not to stand in the rain, either.”

How do you know a job is hateful before you take it? And once you’ve taken it, you’re now doing the job, so people like you can automatically say “why did any of them stay?” to them, because there will always be a period between taking a job and leaving one again. Maybe it takes time to realise what a job really…

If you go into the comments over at Eurogamer, I’m the former EA contractor giving an inside perspective there. And I agree with everything you’re saying.

For me, it wasn’t just my first Zelda game but my first ever Nintendo system, previously having been a Commodore then Sega family. I think what was so astounding about the combination of Gameboy and Link’s Awakening was that it went beyond being the first truly portable, viable gaming system but that LA would have…

The gaming industry has known for years that they are targeting the vulnerable; Google Gamasutra’s article “Chasing the Whale” from 2013 which gives more horrible details.

Others have already commentated on this in general, but here’s my own experience of stalking and harassment connected to working in the games industry for Electronic Arts on Ultima Online, and then criticising the supposed “spiritual successor” to it, “Shroud of the Avatar”...

After reading your posting history, it’s unsurprising you were unable to understand the point and went straight into the toxic commentary. So I’m not going to bother expanding on it for you, let alone answering the question which clearly has more to do with your own obsessions rather than relates to anything I had to…

As always, this whole thing is an incredibly tangled, unedifying mess where the truth isn’t entirely to be found on one side, or another.

They’ve screwed the event up even further since this was published; not only is the “maximum” you got on the first day the absolute total of points you’ll get, not one daily refreshed, the 100 extra points per day promised has for many, including myself, been applied as a negative, thus reducing my maximum points and…

I worked for EA too, on Ultima Online. And it’s outrageous that we don’t get the credit or respect we deserve in the industry. Further more we should stop allowing them to get away with treating us like crap just because we (sometimes) love the products they produce... It certainly is a big deal, big enough that you…

To expand upon what the article says; if Brittany Avery is who I think she is, she not only translated most of xSeed’s games in the past, she did the Steam achievements and much of the Steam forum communication... xSeed translated all the prior Ys games (except for 8, which someone else holds the western license…

Just a somewhat insider’s perspective on this, remember that Rockstar came out of DMA Design (of Lemmings fame) and the 8/16 bit era, where bedroom coders were still sometimes the norm: This matters because the industry still has a Randian/Objectivist mindset of the single genius who makes everything, and that human…

Incorrect; how do you hold someone accountable when there’s no way to identify who they are?

Where as in the United States you’re passing laws to send women to jail if they attempt to abort a child conceived by rape, or even losing the child via miscarriage.

I’m not playing devils advocate, I mean the following; having been the victim of 3+ years of stalking and harassment that I couldn’t serve an arrest warrant on because of the difficulty in legally compelling a company to identify who was doing it, I know exactly why Nation States are becoming increasingly…

Once more, I’ve personally gone the arbitration route against a software company myself; to repeat why Riot wants to do this;

Shockingly bad review, because it completely under-estimates the awesome Sonic All Stars Transformed; and that’s not me being a Sega fanboy but rather because by not mentioning all the ways that SAST was brilliant and generous I’ve no idea whether THIS game is actually an improvement or not. Indeed the review actually…

Oh of course, why didn’t I spot that being in possession of a vagina at birth renders you incapable of certain actions, whilst gaining one later leaves you permanently able to overpower anyone who did, and that’s exactly the kind of violence people wanting to urinate are excited to engage in... Or something. TERF…

TERFdom is the gay panic defence, but for lesbians; they can’t imagine sexuality as anything but absolutely as they demand it be, or else it’s a threat to be met with violent enraged disgust.