Joel Johnson's discussions

It doesn't need to be saved. It'll continue as a healthy niche pastime for at least another decade. But traditional, graphics-oriented, hard core PC gaming is—if not dying—at least not thriving. It's not an either/or thing. It's about a new, more vibrant market springing up around it, siphoning off engineering talent. Read more

Son, I was playing PC games before your mom got knocked up on top of an Acer. Read more

It was even worse when I was younger! My face has changed a bit now. I would totally let JL be my dad, though. He's awesome. Read more

Read into things much? I meant exactly what I wrote. Read more

Thank you, Jonn. Read more

Yeah, remember back when there was only one setting on cameras, one way to process film, one time of day to shoot a photo, one shade of grey to use? I mean back before hipsters called hipsters hipsters. Read more

It's not my responsibility as a writer to worry about the reading or information comprehension of your friends. I'm not going to talk down to anybody by presuming they're too dumb to form their own opinions. Read more

Time for a Force Choke! Read more

AND THUS OPINION IS BORN Read more

Hey, I'm all for thinking outside the box. I'm less enthusiastic about taking everyone else's boxes and shaking their contents into your box. Read more

You definitely should. We don't know enough about it to say it's going to be good or bad! And it's definitely ambitious, which should be encouraged. Read more

Fair point, but I did actually think about that a little. The settings looks 1800s; the clothing 1900s. Read more

WE OLD :) Read more

"Two hundred years ago, that wasn't the case, and the gay population was significantly smaller, if not, again, practically (big emphasis on practically) nonexistent." Read more

I find it amusing that many people suggest it would be better for me to say nothing than fairly broad preview with some mild criticism. Read more

Perhaps that's what I did? Read more

Oh, grow up. If you're really asking me—one person—to censor my opinion because it might be (mildly!) negative, you're really not interested in opinions at all. Maybe you'd be better off just watching preview videos. Read more

Huh? It is obviously an alternate reality. That doesn't mean it's a good one. (And I'd actually err towards "It's pretty good".) Read more

Which part. The headline or the splash image? Read more

I believe I've read clinical papers describing that phenomenon. It's pretty common. I feel that way, too! (My not-scientific belief is that it's a genetic memory from the time we used to swing from trees.) Read more