The thing with this “VR is just a fad! It was around in the 90s, and it failed then, so it’ll fail now too!” argument, is it asserts the reason it didn’t succeed in the 90s is because VR as a concept is unworkable. As opposed to the real reason: bulky, heavy, low refresh CRTs, laggy tracking and 2D sprite-based…

I just don’t know how they’ve misread the room this badly. I mean, I know Facebook itself has been dubious since forever but honestly they seemed to be making smart moves with their VR department shifting towards stand alone headsets and paying developers to make games (granted, the exclusivity sucks but it’s easier…

That $2B they spent buying Rift like a decade ago is seeming like an absolute steal.

They fill the same niche as talk show or late-night TV hosts did when I was growing up. People watch them because they know how to put on an engaging show. Anyone can play video games; some people can make it interesting to watch.

Blaming a porn site with a very explicit policy against deepfakes that apparently even extends to their advertisement for why you ended up on a site with deepfake porn of people you know and are friends with is uh...well...something.

The nouveau riche continue to squander opportunities

So let me get this right

Are the creators of this shit all first-graders obsessed with butts, farts, and poop jokes? I’m not the most mature person myself, but this is SO juvenile.

“an upcoming game where you traverse a sewer system in pursuit of a treasure box key that a monkey shat out of his ass.”

Every single one of them suffers from severe arrested development.  It’s simultaneously fascinating and horrifying to watch.

These fuckers are so, SO goddamned weird.

He had the top comment on the recent JK Rowling article:

It’s always a good time to remind people of this. “Just joking.”

You’re “only joking”, the internet’s most impenetrable defense (🙄🙄🙄), so I’m walking into a land mine here, but... There’s a difference between continuing to support a known piece of shit and having supported in the past a person newly discovered to be a piece of shit. Obviously.

You really gave those imaginary people in your head hell today. Go ahead and take the rest of the day off. You must be exhausted. I know I am!

This is exactly why they don’t need to pay copy editors, because people will come into the comments and do it, gratuitously, for free.

Nothing suspicious to see here. Just an ordinary cult leader leading an ordinary life, whose ordinary wife hasn’t been seen by anyone in more than ten ordinary years. 

While I don’t disagree with you, Noma is a Danish restaurant. And the site says it’s been planning this change for more than two years, which sounds an awful lot like Mr. Famous Chef is super bored and wants to do something else, but finds it quite convenient to blame it on the employees wanting things like “lives”…

my love for the monopoly thimble dare not speak its name.

Honestly, developing games or software with “gamers” as the end-audience is one of the worst professional experiences of my life because it’s the only industry where people think their $10-69 spend entitles them to make ridiculous demands or access developers in ways that wouldn’t be appropriate in literally any other…