Yes, EA is indeed responsible for a lot. 

In that original shitty commenter’s post saying that each should only take five minutes, giving them the absolute benefit of the doubt would translate that to “I’m sure that Game Freak, a skilled and experienced developer, has the pipeline developed that could take a lower poly 3ds model meant only for a tiny screen…

Petty Twitter is the best Twitter. 

This is like saying the Beatles are the most overrated band.  It doesn’t actually matter if you’re right or not, because you’re only saying it to pick a boring, tired fight anyway.  

I know what a hitbox is. My point was that hit box controllers are called hit boxes because the first company to get big with them is named Hit Box, even if they aren’t actually made by Hit Box. Kinda like how Kleenex has become a catch-all term for tissues.

No more than you needed to watch the original Yokai Watch show, film, or manga to understand the first 3 games. YW games always do a good job of recapping important events.

Just for context, can you name an industry that has been bankrupted by unions?

Fun fact: the AP style book specifically allows the use of “:(“ only when referring to the departure of a beloved president of Nintendo of America.

Kids deserve good movies too.

Yeah, the changes they are making are insane. Not only the reduction of summon costs (which is awesome) but they are also taking Wyrmprints out of the summon pool permanently, refunding elderwater for dupe heroes you pulled previously, and opening a wyrmprint shop so you can buy the ones you want with the elderwater…

I get this comment so frequently on articles about the Sims and it really makes me fucking crazy. I have a very full life—I have a lot of non-games hobbies, I have a very fulfilling relationship, and I have a job I love. I spend a lot of time with many friends who enrich my life. I have a full life that also happens…

One of us doesn’t know what Nosferatu-style vamp means.

How do you know?

Not at literal gunpoint, but they are, figuratively. Game dev is the career they wanted. This is what they do for a living. Crunch is forcing brutal work hours by coercion of job security; you either meet your employer’s demands, or wind up on the chopping block in the next quarterly review.

Context does matter, but you are picking and choosing what context matters to you. As it stands, white people wearing dark makeup to appear black is the continuation of a practice tied to the mocking of black people, and often enslaved Africans, in the US. That’s the context for this. More context for this, which a…

I’m happy to see one of these articles go up so far in advance of a launch. Hopefully key decision makers take a read, do an honest accounting of where they are/where they want to be, gauge fan feedback, and get the ship steadied well before launch.

Jason, I’ve been a developer on more than one of these types of monolithic ambitious-but-aimless projects that eventually lurches over the finish line (late). You’ve gone through months (or years) of very real suffering to get it to that point, and when it arrives, you’re embarrassed at what’s been put out. It’s…

Was waiting for this. Will read later on but just wanted to say continue doing the lord’s work.

I’ve been waiting for the Schreier breakdown of how this fell apart far more than the game itself.

People have said this about every art style since the dawn of time. There were inevitably cavemen at some point lamenting how the old ways of drawing bison had been lost.