Oscars and Grammys are so behind the times, just advertisers of the pop sectors of their respective industries.

The entirety of the internet is unusable without ad blockers.

Team 17? Haven’t heard that name in a while.

When the fuck has economic disincentive ever been a priority for civil courts? Large corporations do billions of dollars of damage on a regular basis, and get fined for millions.

This whole headline stinks of trickle-down economics.

I played Dark Souls for 80 hours before I thought it was crap. Shit graphics (on the Xbox 360), shit difficulty, no story, thought the game was just one big trollface, tempting you with ideas that might pan out, but don’t. I kept playing because everybody else thought it was the best game ever, and convinced myself that it was like other RPGs, where if you grinded enough to get the right gear, you could tame the difficulty. It didn’t. Difficulty for older areas was better, but new area difficulty was still shit.

All patents need to be killed. They only benefit the rich and powerful.

The engineers that work there certainly aren’t going to stage a coup.

What engineers? Musk fired all of them when he first started.

BioWare? What’s that? It’s all EA now.

If buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing.

Q: How does Snoop answer the phone?

A: I’ll make the song.

Yeah, makes sense to North Korea, too. I’m not sure they’re an example to follow, though.

To be clear, nation states controlling the tools that their employees and, potentially, wider population communicate and access information is a dystopian vision, and I cannot agree with that point at all.

Wow, what a way to take the most extreme POV possible on an issue.

Yep, we already beat that dead IP into the ground, so let’s do it for another one!

Shitty tech opinions were flooding Medium before, so it’s not much of a difference.

Well, it’s more like a stopped watch sort of thing. Konami has lost its way ever since it cared more about pachinko machines than actual video games.

The fact that they think it’s part of the same strategy is why they fail. They take a cursory look at both, see numbers go up, and think that all they have to do is push for common element X to succeed.

Gross oversimplification of business strategy and how products are built are why corporations trip over their own dicks over and over again. I wish they would just teach that in business school.

What do you expect from RPS, Kotaku, IGN, and the rest of the games “journalists”? Journalistic integrity?

That would require an actual journalism degree.

Konami died the moment they fired Kojima and embraced the god of pachinko machines.

Always has been 👨‍🚀🔫

Chris Roberts is still rich, and could probably retire right now without worrying about anything. He could tank the company, and he wouldn’t care.