It’s a bit more complicated than that, but you’re broadly correct; the industry is obsessed with the idea that it can get every dollar possible, from every possible playstyle. It doesn’t want to understand that some things are naturally destructive of others, and you have to pick and defend a specific balance.

No, he does understand, he’s pointing out something you don’t grasp about how many trolls operate, especially in certain kinds of games; They don’t want to fight each other. They want to find the people who don’t want to fight, beat them up and break their stuff, and then rub it in their faces that they’re somehow…

I checked in a year or two ago and it looks like they’re still trying to drive people over to be victims for the PKs

This isn’t a perfect guide, but here’s the rough way to get set up in GTAO from where you are;

I don’t see a clear one, only IP rights to everything you ever do all belonging to your employer... I’m not a trained lawyer, and wasn’t US based so I can’t be certain of the intricacies of the claims and legal demands within.

I still have all my documents from my time at EA; I could go through the contract and share the passage where it explains the harsh legal issues that would result from even sharing what was in the contract, but even that is covered by NDA: indeed I couldn’t even tell you officially I’d worked for EA until years after…

The issue here is not that there exists a forum that hated The Last Of Us 2; in any healthy environment, the right to criticise, dissent, even outright reject something is essential.

Making the games industry safe for women has been women’s business for too long. It feels Sisyphean. I see a lot of horrified men on my timeline. What are you going to do with this rage? What are you going to build?

I think the “sea of assholes” is in part coming from the idea, bourne in the 1970s/80s rise of the industry, that what makes a good programmer is that they’re a lonely, bedroom coding Ayn Rand-esque Libertarian social misfit, and that a lack of social skills or even social concern is a positive thing: You don’t have…

Yup. It was the same over at EA/Broadsword when I worked on UO. No sexism as such, but an absolutely hateful atmosphere of bullying; the very first day I had access to the internal MiRC fellow staff were warning me the lead (female) had a horrendous temper. It was just considered part of the cost of doing your “dream…

It’s not a 1:1 co-relation, but yes it’s my belief that you will find a much greater incidence of anti-social behaviour in those driven to find fame, influence and power. And there is some scientific evidence to state this is true; Jon Ronson’s book “The Psychopath Test” goes into much wider detail on this (and the…

but at least the car shop is more useful than prior additions, like the submarine.

I’m going to have to be excessively blunt here, but if you’re stating this;

TLDW of the new Coffeezilla video; Not only does former FaZe Kay get his lawyers to send a threat of being sued, but Kay is apparently trying to burn his accomplice, Sam Pepper, as leading him astray...

Does anyone know if there’s any way to tell if the “sealed” condition is the original, or if it’s just been vacuum wrapped at some point since? And how do they know the actual cartridge and maps etc are in there? By weight? But you could easily just put weight substitutes in. Do they X-ray them to look...?

This video is absolutely essential watching; it also explains why FaZe Kay was fired and the others only suspended, namely that you can trace a wallet directly back to Kay which shows he deliberately pumped and dumped the scheme, selling out the instant he could... as well as likely being involved in setting up the…

All it shows is how sadly disconnected modern media coverage and a lot of the people responding to it are; it’s not restricted to Japan, as infamous click bait draw here Amouranth had a news story about keeping her married status hidden so as to avoid losing subs from people who had developed a parasocial relationship…

Just to save folks a little frustration, the video on the linked Twitter is very low resolution and cuts out much of the insane amount of work needed to get to this chest. Go to the user’s own YouTube instead, the full video (with thanks to the team that helped him grab the chest) here;

Yup, as I thought, you’re not a good faith actor; you don’t actually want to detail what opinions you claim to have, because you know they’ll be indefensible. But how exactly do you expect Kotaku to represent other voices, when you don’t have the honesty to actually say what content you think is missing?

Which particular conservative views do you want to see positively reported on here?