Recent content by Verlander

That's the point though. It's just a cosplay show. If you need to say "drama free" it's because you have some awareness that just about anything on these sites is resulting in drama.

Ok, I think I'm out. I'm sure this is a very lovely person, who is talented and passionate and all of that good stuff. Probably a wonderful human being to boot. However, when new hires have to start by reinforcing "positive, fun, drama-free", it shows the absolute state of this site and...

Well, because delaying the payment of a debt, and writing it off completely, are two different things. Perhaps it was in bad taste to not offer to repay the Escapist for the things it donated (although if EC had done so, they'd have every right to advertise that The Escapist had withdrawn...

It amounts to poor communication, nothing more really. There's only a publisher for the mobile version of the game, and that was put in place so that he didn't need to ask for more money. Games are released when they're released - he can say "I hope to have it out in 7 months", but if it's not...

But what broken promises? The interviewer was obsessed with giving those that pledged a refund, and asking if he saw a difference between overrunning the timeframe for a publisher compared to other fans (the truth is, of course, that there's no difference). The lies that the article...

I don't particularly want to start a discussion on the other people you've mentioned, like Anita (until she officially quits, or officially finishes her series, it's all conjecture), and I think that RPS are fighting a tenuous "moral" battle if they're fussing over the timescale in which pledge...

Never read RPS, but didn't like that interview at all... the interviewer was accusing PM of overpromising, and then at the end tries to get him to make a financial promise to Brian Henderson. It was also full of the Fox news tactic of interrupting the answer when it looks like the interviewee...

This is a different scenario, but details some of the effects: http://what-if.xkcd.com/129/

Did he? I don't remember that bit at all. In your explanations, you've missed the bit where The Escapist hadn't paid EC, and owed them money, a debt which they expected to be cancelled out due to the success of the fundraiser. Frankly, had the original $15k number never been mentioned...

*Waves hand* It was never all that profitable to begin with, in all honesty. That's why content providers are on freelancer contracts, and was the source of the Extra Credits debacle - there's no money in it. In terms of ads, I think that a certain browser tool hurts site revenue more...

Not sure how long I've been on here, will edit and add. I've been on here a long time, but posted far less frequently than the "names". I feel that the community has shifted, and gamergate highlighted it a little - this place used to be full of varied and interesting people, and even if it still...

There's a very clear direction this new "positive" Escapist is going in, and it's not really that positive at all. I used to check in here every day for content and discussions, was the first place I'd head to on the internet. If it continues it's current, loudmouth pleasing, direction, it looks...

It's not really about that though. Changing up a well established story or character in any way is going to attract scrutiny. If they made James Bond an American, or the Ghostbusters female, it'd be a move that would attract a certain amount of criticism from people. Those people don't need to...

Interesting perspective. I agree to an extent, although I've not been to New York and don't know what NYC looks like on the street. On the clips and news reports I see, the city centre is predominantly white? The MCU could definitely improve in this regard - Agents of Shield is doing well to...

Why Marvel should not: They didn't spend time, money and give concessions to Sony in order to bring a "new character" to the screen. They did it to bring Spiderman, so they should sell a shit ton of Spiderman toys and to totally destroy Batman Vs Superman. As for the "quota", we've already...