It’s perfectly possible for them to both come out of it looking bad.

This doesn’t just reflect on how he stands with Valve, but other prospective employers.

Given his former employer owns the game he commentates for, he has plenty to lose responding back still.

Gabe will still be self-employed after making the comment though, while Harding stands to gain little from retorting.

Something tells me the roles are a little different when you own the company in question. Still unprofessional to call him an ass probably, but it’s not like you can cancel that out with some unprofessionalness of your own.

You’re free to like it, but I don’t think providing you with Atari age trivia is necessarily insightful.

The problem has nothing to do with how great 80's media is. It’s that the book is just an excuse to rattle off references to the author’s childhood. It has nothing insightful or interesting to say about it, it’s just wish fulfillment and pandering to nostalgia.

I can’t say that was my experience with Burger King (the kuro burger I tried was kinda a mess), but McDonald’s has generally been picturesque in terms of how their burgers come out. As an American I’ve been generally predisposed to not expect my burgers to look like the picture when ordering fast food.

I’d argue you’re being too kind still. It doesn’t just reshape their popular culture, it’s an excuse for the writer to not have to do any world building of his own because he can just pretend literally everyone still gives a shit about the popular culture of an era 50 years ago even after offhandedly describing the…

My issue with the book is that the premise is just an excuse to shovel a nonstop barrage of 80's nostalgia towards the reader in a way that’s ostensibly relevant in 2044.

Optical drives are getting less common in the smaller screen size brackets, but in the larger 17.3" and up categories, you’re usually dealing with massive laptops to begin with (probably in part because they often accompany higher end equipment, like the 980M.)

My issue with the PS+ lineup is that it’s largely become a collection of games I already own because they’re titles that came out on Steam a good deal before they ever came out onto a Sony system. They’re not bad, obviously I bought them for a reason, but other than not buying indie games on the off chance they end up…

While there are some similarities, I don’t know that he’s motivated by quite the same reasons. He’s dealing with a comparatively niche title, and Japanese sales still lean more towards physical copies. He can’t guarantee his game will be on shelves long enough to recoup investment if there isn’t enough interest at…

Not necessarily. These are already niche games even in their home market. But even more so in the West. And the big difference is Japanese gamers are usually more willing to pay a premium for that kind of niche filling compared to the West, which tends towards more static price points. And then you add the cost of…

Arguably, most crowd funding is effectively “develop game once enough people bought it.” Except with the additional caveat that a backer isn’t guaranteed a product or a refund, while a preorder does.

AAA studios delay their own games too, to avoid releasing against big competition or fit within a particular sales period (and when they don’t, you have things like the recent Tomb Raider, releasing against bigger titles like Battlefront and Fallout 4.)

Like the FBI keeping the modified firmware? So far as I know they’re not handing the phone over to Apple to apply the firmware themselves, but to provide the FBI with the tools in order for them to do it.

Guessing Danganronpa run through a spelling checker.

Yeah, I hear lots of stories about how awesome the original screen is, but after having to compare the old model with my 2000 model I can’t say I’d trade the lighter weight and better battery life for it.

I get the impression that the snark would have been there regardless of when it aired.