Luke Plunkett's discussions

It’s like, these fucking people....do they think workers are unionising for fun? For a laugh? The history of unionisation is that it comes about when conditions for workers SUCK SO BADLY that they feel they have no other choice. Read more

From the softball questions to the bizarre YT videos to the contempt from the ubisoft exec, this is truly dystopian levels of coverage, im almost impressed Read more

The story here is not the tweet itself. Read more

Well, that’s the thing, you can’t subject this sort of stuff to a committee. You either let people make this shit or you don’t. Read more

Tim said the same thing under my 2019 post given his experiences working with a major japanese publisher, but yeah, thought it needed repeating here! Read more

Equally weird to me that despite this Nintendo is the only company to go to these lengths when many others, from Microsoft on down, don’t just avoid such punitive actions but sometimes even work WITH the modders and creators responsible. Read more

Oh this one’s great, thanks! Read more

I think everybody who is not an EA executive or shareholder, and I’m probably including the dev team here, would say “um yes” Read more

Look, I fully understand WHY there haven’t been bigger/better updates yet, for most of the reasons I talk about it being broken in my review, but...this game still needs bigger/better updates. Read more

It is just the coolest. For other sports doing this pros v gamers thing it’s just a gimmick, because playing 2K is nothing LIKE playing actual basketball, but racing games are at the point with physics and visuals that they’re comparable enough for this to be of serious interest. Read more

god damn it, its buzzfeed, i had a boing boing link open right next to it. thanks. Read more

Please, please read the Boing-Boing story I linked to, this is all so hilariously dumb. Read more

January 20, 2021! Which was 3.5 years ago! Read more

another good way of slipping geography lessons into a show without having to pause the action!

- I know they quickly flash a crude map on screen in ep 4? 5? but it’s useless. Read more

it’s the noise as much as the action itself. Read more

In this instance it’s definitely the prior correspondence and accusations of trying to deal with artists directly that are the story here, not the simple “A vs B” image comparison. Read more

But it fucking sucks man. Everything about it fucking sucks. Read more