Keep on working on that reading comprehension and learn to deal with nuance. I didn’t say I agree with selling unfinished games at a high price.

Looks like someone doesn’t understand how profit margins work. If I’m going to make the same $90 anyway and have to decide between spending more money on the product by delaying release or less money by rushing…all things being equal, that sounds like an easy choice. So a purely financial argument is obviously going to fall flat.

The sticking point is that money is not the only value in this world. All of our decisions need not be driven by profit maximizing strategies. So maybe instead of producing shoddy games at peak profit it would be better to produce excellent games at a good profit.

Imagine being opposed to clean water. Death cultists, one and all.

Along with the brilliant “use” of quotation “marks”.

Get 'em out of here already!

🇪🇺🥾🇭🇺!

Mario? Screw that guy. I’d tip for Luigi, though.

c/restofthefuckingowl 😂

Bink videos were the hot shit for games for a while, and RAD Game Tools started a whole era of standardization for multimedia processes that culminated in DirectX. With computing power increasing along with the market share of PCs, using standardized libraries for audio & video drivers became the sensible thing to do. Previously you had games programmers eking out every iota of performance by fine tuning that stuff at an assembly level (the Origin games with their memory managers and Chris Sawyer’s amazing if kind of insane feat in creating Transport Tycoon come to mind).

It’s probably going to be cold hamberders again anyway.

God, the first music files I downloaded were MIDI and Soundtracker .MOD files using a 14,400k modem & BBS. That was after upgrading from my PC/XT to a 486/SX 25…those were the days.

Time to finally get off the “stuff” and go into rehab. And get some flowers to apologize to your aunt.

Break Gas? Never heard that expression before. I always thought it was “break wind”. 😆💨

Be sure to take that gun with you on your transatlantic flights so you can shoot your way out of the airport when the American Gestapo come for you. 👍

You’re not supposed to place your laptop directly in the lap of your fur suit. Always leave an air gap for ventilation, smh.

Think of it as an initiation rite.

Now you are one of us.

So… a female Joe Rogan, essentially?

They really should have learned from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants

Third degree burns are NO JOKE, particularly in such a sensitive area. If you google around a little you can see the burns on the leg of Simone Evans, another plaintiff vs. Starbucks in a similar, ongoing case (NSFW!)

Good guy HAL, making sure you learn your craft.

I never did get her actual name on account of the extra bursting into laughter. What was it again?

I think the expression is more about the gluteus maximus area but you probably know that.