you should start hatching now since what's in the egg's picked when you open the gift, so you'll need to restock on eggs after the 13th

Aaw, thank you kindly! It’s still sometimes crazy to me how big Random Doom seemed to be and how many people saw it!

Anyway, thank you again for kind message!

yeah, thats kinda what i was getting at

horror and high levels of detail go well together (PT, junji ito, bloodborne, re engine resident evil)

adding dailies was probably the most welcome change GO could have done in all honesty

Agreed. Like, the 7-day streak stuff is nice, but if you miss like 5th day or something it becomes discouraging. And there needed to be something between those and ‘defend Gyms for a total of 1,000 hours’ (which doesn’t even give you a reward-besides that now you can buy special clothes with the coins you earned defending those Gyms).

Plus I like that you not only get options (can’t make three Excellent throws in a row? No problem; find another Stop and spin again), but they carry over so you can redeem them another day if you need.

And that you can whip out the Special Research if you really want (some people have already gotten Mew, but for me it’s gonna take awhile, looking at some of the requirements), but you’re limited to one Field Research stamp a day.

It’s not a theory. That’s game development. Eventually you do enough good work that you stop being in the trenches and become a manager, and if you keep getting promoted up and up and up, you eventually either end up in a job you know nothing about or you settle for something you did not originally sign up for (unless the only reason you signed up was to climb the ladder, I guess).

Yuji Naka started out as a programmer, then managing programmer, then director, then producer, then president of Sonic Team. Not long before he left Sonic Team in 2006, he was asked when the last time he did programming work and it was on Chu Chu Rocket in 2001, and only because he specifically requested of his team that they let him assist in programming. (actually, as I recall, I think he specifically said they were short on time and he was helping get the game ready to show at E3, but don’t quote me on that)

Look at Satoru Iwata. One of the best programmers Nintendo had, saved many games with his wizardry, eventually got promoted to President of Nintendo. Not gonna do much programming there, are you?

Look at Jon Burton. Again, excellent programmer, founded Traveler’s Tales. Now the dude has credits on The Lego Movie as an executive producer. That’s not even games anymore!

Yoshihisa Hashimoto did very incidental programming in Sonic Adventure (essentially handling enemy AI) and in 9 years, ended up being the lead game designer and director of Sonic Unleashed.

This is how the industry works. It’s less of a food chain and more of a ladder, and one you kind of end up climbing whether you want to or not. That was one of the driving forces behind the early indie developer scene – people tired of being managers that clearly wanted to get back to being down and dirty in the trenches again, doing the real work instead of being trapped in meetings and business suits all day.

In that context, it’s not that Sonic Team is hiring dumb newbies who don’t understand what they’re doing, because every newbie at every company goes through that. Every game developer has an “onboarding” process where they show the new guy the ropes and give them space sync up with the team’s rhythm. It could be that Sonic Team isn’t training people properly, their standards of quality aren’t very high (either for budgetary reasons or otherwise), or any number of other reasons that is resulting in this company consistently being so clumsy at just about everything they’ve touched since 1998.

It’s probably less weird than you think because the comics built a lot of their own lore for basically everything and thanks to Ken Penders they have to abandon all of that – even the stuff Ken doesn’t own, because he threatened to help anyone who wanted to come forward and claim their characters.

Ian, for safety sake, largely kept to the games and the old cartoons, and he didn’t get much time to build his own expanded universe because he was still in the process of establishing the lay of the land after all of the rebooting he was forced to do. We got to see hints of it here and there, like Breezie basically controlling the planet’s entire entertainment industry, but it lacked the massive history that had been built up in those first 215 or so issues.

Ian’s handling of the old characters (before he rebooted)hardly counts either, because he was definitely still getting his feet wet. 2017 Ian Flynn is a lot better at all of this than 2007 Ian was. I actually remember being kind of let down by how he handled stuff in that very first Lara-su story he did. He had trouble writing satisfying endings (and may still, but he camouflaged it better by directly seguing in to his next arc).

gladion throws a football at siebold and tells him to stop trying to cook his mom