The assumption here is that McAdams got elected by being fiscally conservative, rather than by running in a wave year, in a swing district, in a state where a majority of people thought Trump was a bad president by the time the election rolled around. I’m not gonna say that AOC or Ilhan Omar could have gotten elected…

primary these morons into oblivion

Maybe the DA leads will round up all the negative reactions to the idea of DA4 as a live service game, put them into a PowerPoint presentation, and use it as leverage to get EA to back off. :)

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.

The more I read these articles, the more I really feel that the gaming industry needs heavy unionization. The human cost quotient for these products/games is never justified and is something I hope to see remedied in the coming years. 

Another great article Jason, I want to say you’re on fire but not to imply that your past work wasn’t great however you really seem to be nailing it.

Every time I see an article from Jason, I rub my hands together and whisper:

Jason, honey, you’re blowing us away with these back to back insider reports. Never stop snooping in these times of turbulence for the better.

You said “hard on.”

Bipartisan and skilled shapers of policy working together to redesign the system so it works better.

lol k dude

I will never understand the childish anger of internet gamer bros. I get the social/cultural/political roots of it, I just can’t imagine being so angry over something so miniscule. I like to believe it’s just teenagers who don’t know any better, but it’s so often overemotional adult men. It blows my mind every time…

Anna, I have been a HUGE fan of your long form reporting for years now and I just want to tell you how pumped I am about this book. Congrats! Can’t wait to read it. 

I find this stuff endlessly fascinating and look forward to reading the book!

Schreier, I will always appreciate your deep-dives into the less glamorous sides of this hobby and the industry that supports it. While most of Kotaku’s articles are (and probably should be) focused on the games themselves, it’s incredibly important that we never lose sight of the human cost incurred in the production…

Not only are polygraphs not reliable, but him believing the encounters to be consensual means absolutely nothing

I think in your first article about Tia, it was mentioned they had a “trained psychic” on board. Not an untrained psychic, mind you, but a trained one.

My first reaction when I first heard about it was“Your plan is....to use a business model designed to encourage people to sign up for recurring billing and forget/never use the service but then market it to people who specifically want high touch individualized medical care and then only hire one doctor?”

it seems the republican voters keep putting them in and a large number of democratic voters staying home.

“Wayne Goodwin, the current chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, was the state’s insurance commissioner at the time of one of the shell moves detailed by the Journal. Goodwin lost his bid for a third term to Causey in 2016.