No fan of Nintendos aggressive legal tactics. But here’s what I’ll say:

I think it speaks to the lifecycle of most social movements like Me Too. Over time they become commodified, and this is an example of that in real time.

To be fair, he was extremely dead by the time she said it.

Kinda feels like Gadsby was put into a position to fail on this one. The odds of any stand-up comedian putting on a good art show are next to nonexistent, the concept of snarky commentary over classic art is DOA, and I’m willing to bet the museum approached her with this idea.

How could you determine if a job candidate is queer without asking them about their sexuality? What I’m describing is the next logical step to making sexuality based hiring happen.

Yes what we need to do is require workers to document their sexual preference as a requirement for employment. That’s a really great solution that should make everyone feel comfortable, and couldn’t possibly be weaponized against anyone.

I’m more in the middle overall, but agree this was not a great episode. I’m digging the 90’s storyline even more. I think they’re maintaining a great witchy survival dramedy on that side of the house. The needle drops are getting a little too on the nose, but the “Scary White Lotus” score is excellent.

No one is saying it can’t be understood by playing it. This is describing the development process. There wasn’t anything to play when they were making the game.

Of course it’s taken out of context. This is an entire article built on a few lines from an interview that describe a really common concept in games and fiction: lore references.

Yea “required” is not accurate but the point is valid. This article is disingenuous for 1) leaving out the (pre-vaccine) pandemic as the reason for that decision and 2) implying that this decision (and not the pandemic) “decimated” the movie theater industry (which is still around FYI).

George’s dead fiancée Susan (and his palpable relief after her death) would like a word.

Zelda arguably invented the concept of an open world game with its first title.

Reminder that Nintendo went “back to basics” with the Zelda franchise as recently as Skyward Sword, with it’s puzzly environments. And of course that was very controversial to the fans of the more open worldy Twighlight Princess and Wind Waker.

Some single player games do have a resource economy, but I don’t think this game is one of those. It has a basic currency system with fixed prices per item. When a writer uses the term economy, the implication is variable pricing.

Does it matter if you “break the economy” of a single player game? Using the term economy usually implies some sort of player driven market in MMOs.

Spoken like a very young PC gamer. As someone who bought the first series of 3DFX GPUs, I can promise you this is nowhere near the worst time to be a PC Gamer.

Luke I appreciate thus article. Not pointing fingers, but I think the media at large also bears some responsibility for this.  As an audience we get a ton of information, but very little analysis.

And that’s if you’re paying full price. We also forget that drastically discounted games didn’t exist until Steam Sales took off about 12 years ago.

Yea I actively despise Sheeran’s music, and his general vibe, but I was rooting for him on this one.

Nothing wrong with changing lines, lots of actors do it. But most of them don’t publicly announce it at the expense of their coworkers’ reputation.