Recent content by goothrie

Liked this article! Honestly, those "gamer culture is dead" articles all seemed a little over-dramatic to me. I mean, I've always maintained "gamer" is a bit of a silly word, but all the same, they came across as insulting to anyone playing video games. I'm very happy to see peoples...

Also- those faux-intellectual articles about how gaza relates to video games? That's definitely clickbait.

Yeah- I was hoping for a debate at least- rather than what boiled down to "don't accuse this website of clickbait pLease" I think Jim is mostly accused of clickbait because his job is to talk about controversial stuff, so I can give him a bit of a pass. Bob on the other hand, seems to...

But whats the alternative you're suggesting? We should all just... have more money...? Sixty dollars is a lot. In a struggling economy, how do you blame someone for lowering their entertainment budget? Of course this is happening- steam sales are most likely preventing a whole lot of pirating...

So I've read a lot of comments here, and the ones supporting the opinions es pressed in the article all seem to boil down to bemoaning how these poor developers are making so much less than they deserve, which is fair, and probably true, but... not helpful. That's not going to improve the...