Or, they’ve learned that having lots of sex is something that makes you “cool”, so they do it and brag about it to make themselves feel validated. It’s a band-aid over a bunch of insecurities.

The working out, martial arts, guitar, etc. all screamed of a “I’m unattractive, what should I do? I know, chicks dig guitar, so I’ll learn to play guitar. Also, I’ll get big muscles and learn to fight so that everyone will see I’m not a dork anymore.”

As far as “how do I approach,” you’re right that there’s a lot of sleazy shit (and sleazy guys) out there. What I found worked best for me was simply to say, “Hi, my name is (Arnheim). Do you have a minute to chat?”

I think that telling people they don’t know what it’s like to have low self-esteem is one of those things that will make you look like an asshole 100% of the time. How the hell do you know how he actually feels? He even stated he’s been in therapy for a long time, dealing with issues from his childhood and…

There are very few of the same people left at Bungie from those days. Some of them went to 343i, others went elsewhere. Might as well think of them as a different company, since a company is the sum of the people working there.

Yeah, this really did seem like a “No Shit” study.

Yeah, I agree with you on the StarCraft thing. I edited my original reply to flesh it out a bit more, as to why playing with the same environmental associations would help you long term. I just don’t see why it needs to be that game’s soundtrack, necessarily.

The messages in this article are kind of confusing. If all they are saying is that audio cues in games help you play better, that seems pretty obvious. More information is better than less information, to a point. If they’re saying that playing with the game’s soundtrack on helps you play better, unless that game’s…

Technically, it’s called “hoarding”.

That would make sense if his hands were actually on his belt.

His hands are way too high for that.

Well, he puts his hands on the control modules on his belt a lot in the original trilogy, so I thought maybe they were going for that:

That was my first thought when I read the headline. The only boss battle I’ve really enjoyed in this series was punching the shit out of the pope.

They’re not. Gotta read to the end.

Dude, they’re not going on stream.

Little late, my man.

Christ, I still get so unreasonably angry when I think about how they fired Mary out of nowhere. His music was the heart and soul of so much of the campaigns in those games. They paid him back for his long, successful career in such a shitty way.

Agreed, Hayabusa will always be my favorite Ryu. I’m partial to NES Hayabusa.

I’ve worked as a software engineer at a few different companies, and I always have a lot of respect for people like Iwata. It seems like after a certain point, after you graduate to the upper management/executive bubble, your days are just filled with meetings, managing people, and business decisions. Every once in a…

I think you probably got the order wrong. From her tweets, sounds like she spent a bit of time playing, spent some (to her, trivial) money on it, then realized it was terrible and predatory and quit playing.