I guess in this instance… and I hate to pull out such a card, but maybe… I’m just still at that wide-eyed, idealistic stage, easily impressed stage? Not to say that you’re some grizzled, cynic that’s “seen all the bullshit this industry has come to embody.”

Which is why Hawking, sorry, Hocking rubbed me off such the wrong way. Again, yeah, it’s easy to get demoralized and become bitter when the thing you love is treated like such crap, or being done poorly, yet rewarded handsomely, but at the end of the days, its still video games. Hence why I give angry, bitter game journalists the McDonald’s analogy.

I probably would have been more turned off by Mak’s “rant” and written him off as some hipster douchebag if not for the fact that he did not come off as one at the state of indie roudtable a couple days prior. I would also like to think that it was designed to be a counter-point for the aforementioned douchebag before him, who did the typical “what an angry game designer is SUPPOSED to act like” shtick from three years ago.

Hahaha….and yeah, Clint….change the industry! What did you work on last?
I love what he said, but he needs to pull a Koster and actually go out and do what he’s ranting about.

I saw the entire balloon thing as some sort of retarded inside joke gimmick.
I was actually embarrassed for games.