This is exactly what my 9 year old says on a school day when the bus is arriving in 5 minutes and he hasn’t gotten out of bed. Then he throws his Emoji the Movie branded pillow at me.

Hey! That is unfair. They are proving you can run an elaborate scam about ownership without burning a forest to do so or shouting “blockchain!” every three sentences.  They have proven time and time again that the blockchain is not needed at all.

Same here. It must have been 3 years after that when I realized this game would never be released until someone leashed Roberts and took a firm hold on the reigns of management.

Oh my God, it just hit me.

What was promised will never be delivered. In 20 years there will probably be quite a nice polished game to that will turn up with zero fanfare on a bunch of platforms.

Man, entitled gamers strike again. Just because they *paid* for a *video game* they expect actual progress and updates towards that game being completed.  What entitled babies.

And to be clear, white racial hierarchies and antisemitism were/are very much a thing in the U.S. Recent Irish, Italian, Slavic, and Jewish immigrants weren’t ever considered “non-white,” precisely, but they were definitely considered to be a racially inferior version of white relative to the established Protestant…

Romani people would probably be surprised to find out that they qualify as Aryan according to Nazi doctrine.

It’s like, these fucking people....do they think workers are unionising for fun? For a laugh? The history of unionisation is that it comes about when conditions for workers SUCK SO BADLY that they feel they have no other choice.

Yeah, to me Magnus started it. He went and postured on Twitter, and then fans are getting upset at his opponent for... *checks notes*... posturing on Twitter?

A normal person: “wow how unsportsmanlike!”

It’s already been proven legal to reverse engineer when you do it “legally”. You put in data you acquire from a game you own.

Well, there’s also that annoying part of the Legend of Zelda being a trademark of Nintendo (and yes, it’s a trademark, not a copyright).  Even if these guys were to completely rebuild the game from scratch in a “clean room approach,” the fact that they are using Nintendo’s intellectual property will doom the effort if…

It wasn’t clean room, they used decompiled binaries as reference (their FAQ mentions this). Proper clean room requires creating a comprehensive specification based on observation of the software’s interactions without referencing its code in any form - source, compiled or decompiled. That specification then needs to…

Here, here. Happy that The Great Departure coincided with Sundance at least so we get one last hurrah from Katie and Alex. Would have been extra sad if their last reviews for the sight had been The 355 and Gamestop: Rise of the Players.

Incredibly sorry to see you go Ren, but best of luck on Beto O’Rourke’s 2022 Governor’s race. 

I’ve been begging some of the old Kotaku and Jalopnik people do the same.  Defector is an absolutely FANTASTIC place to go.  The massive exodus and founding of Defector has led to such tremendous content.  I would love to see the same thing happen, but as you said, for games.  And car content.

“Dislikes: Erratic pacing, herbs...”

I wonder too — I’m not sure it does. If the union is in the midst of an organization drive, then there are certain NLRB protections in place. Spreading them around doesn’t make them any less of a collective bargaining unit, and thanks to WhatsApp and Zoom, it’s not going to prevent them from meeting and planning out…

“But I’m also becoming concerned that we may be getting to a point where the only way to secure financing for a serious drama about, say, the experience of immigrants estranged from their own children while they care for someone else’s is to throw some ghosts or demons or mermaids in it.”