It's a zombie-company. Just a brand name they slap on a couple of divisions of Activision (soon MS).
They've also been bad at introducing new IPs, or managing the ones people already care about. Eventually some people figure out when they're being milked like cattle.
I've got pretty low standards when it comes to graphics. The first game had AA issues too, but generally looked much cleaner and more polished.
Anti-aliasing? Pop-in on textures and geometry? Shadows? Looked like some z-fighting there too.
There was a nice-looking model train, though.
Public warnings are bullshit, anyway. They post a reply, warning you for saying something you didn't say, often /u/ mentioning you, then delete the original comment to cover their tracks.
So many dead franchises. The videogame industry really went in an unexpected direction...
Vegas Stakes - simple casino games, perfect time-killer for the format.
Wendy Every Witch Way - concept of reversing gravity has been used in other platformers since, but this might be the OG, and is very solid.
You can either try to do things the right way and cure multiple social ills, or you can do it the wrong way and end up with different rules for different adults all in an attempt to prohibition your way out of one issue.
NZ already did this and it is the most cowardly way to avoid political blowback.
There's plenty of other options for minimising smoking. A more altruistic way is by lifting people out of poverty and tackling social disintegration, since smokers are overwhelmingly poor and disaffected.
Maybe I'm just weird but I think the tech focus is better.
Like that's where all this started. Kevin Rose wanted a better version of Slashdot, a tech news aggregator, so he created Digg.
And Digg was about tech news for several years before going to a general format, at which point it became trash.
And then Digg's redesign killed the site and everyone flocked to a Digg clone called reddit, even though reddit was a clone of post-shittification Digg, not pre-shittification Digg.
Being tech-focussed really does help. I'd sooner deal with Well Actually neckbeards than the average Facebook user, even if I'm not just interested in tech news.
Forums worked really elegantly when you had an active userbase of maybe a couple of dozen people a day.
Megaforums... not so much.
It's hard to avoid the US politics. Worse than reddit in that regard, it is giving me flashbacks to 2008 Digg where every second thing on the front page was about Obama and Ron Paul.
Their son plays fortnight on min settings, he knows.