There are now sixteen competing standards.

All the people telling him he should just write and direct the prequels himself instead of getting someone to do it for him ruined it more.

Jokes on you, I read the title, forget that I read the title, read the post, then go back and read the title again 😎

I went away for a little over two weeks once. When we finally got back our one cat came around the corner, saw us, and let out the longest, saddest yowl you would ever hear. It makes leaving now so heartbreaking.

But they said they wouldn’t!

It was very much not an action oriented game. It was more about building resources and exploration. I can definitely see it not appealing to large swatches of the gaming population. Especially those used to the modern spate of action rpgs.

McDonalds marketing is getting pretty aggressive if they’re sending their cashiers to Wendy’s…

They’re literally selling faster than the original Switch, what the fuck are you smoking?

Wii fit trainer?

Then there’s the film processing, dark rooms aren’t cheap!

Yeah, but at least they’re nice about it. And look at those ties! How can you not trust a guy in a tie?

A cold shower

Lots of things cause harm while also doing good things. It’s a balance.

The problem is when that balance skews more one way than another.

Depends on how you define intelligence. If intelligence is only your max possible ability to process thoughts, yeah. Clarity won’t increase intelligence, just increase utilization of intelligence. But if it’s a more dynamic measurement, then intelligence would be improved by clarity of thought.

It would be nice if it were above politics. But what you’re attributing to nefarious deeds… is literally what politics is. Power players trying to leverage anything they can to accumulate as much influence as possible. Sometimes these come in the form of scheming plans, but more often than not it’s just manipulating any convenient happenstance that falls at their feet.

Sometimes people have ideas that just don’t work out. Even if the same people make another game, unless they just make a carbon copy they’re going to try and do something different. Sometimes it doesn’t work as well as the original, but at least it’s not churning out the same thing over and over and hoping people don’t notice.

Granted, Gamefreak has basically been doing that for 25 years, so what do I know?

Billionaires are a symptom, not the cancer itself.

It’s a prestigious award.

I just don’t understand their desire to be the center of attention

There is that aspect of it, but there’s also the aspect of writing your own destiny, about creating something you care about instead of just being a nameless cog in an industrial machine putting out consumerist crap day in and day out. Why is the latter more admirable to you than the former?

Who did you?