Well with that attitude I’m just going to buy that game now even though I have a giant backlog because reviews are solid and I like me some RPG, jokes on you nice developer

Backstab, Catch Flame Catch Flame Catch Flame, now I am the rune boi

I’d read about potential builds before starting the game, thought the Prisoner looked weird and cool as hell, so decided instead of using my UGS pure Strength default like every Soulsbourne, decided I’d go Dex/Int and use swords and Glintstone.

If Disney wants to suggest that Moon Knight has dissociative identity disorder, that’s fine, but in order to avoid making light of a real-life diagnosis by connecting it to a very unreal fictional character, we will be operating under the assumption that Moon Knight’s personalities have a tangible, albeit…

Fuck the red Okami cosplaying as Dumbledore spamming Glintstone and the bear with the grey tribal fur tattoo that spends all his time perfecting his ratio of growth hormone to androgenic steroids when he's not busy aggroing you from a stadium away, in particular

“We promise no crunch” -March 2022, when deadlines and announcements and release dates and quarterly earning timelines can all still easily be met.

Well that explains why I suddenly stopped seeing messages and specters in Elden Ring yesterday.

It’s also possible that Aegon is a pretender that was created or maintained by Varys, which was already a pretty popular theory in 2011 when Dance with Dragons came out. The show going the direction it did mostly confirmed to a large portion of the readership that Aegon was in fact Fake, thus Faegon.

If famed and hugely popular fantasy novelist George R. R. Martin is involved in contributing to your world (debate the extent all we want, he’s credited and it’s remarked upon and official), when an NPC in your game gives you four options to discuss,

So... Nothing, really. Martin said he never hid his initials in the game world, which is true, but that his initials are presented in the game as a wink to his involvement is also true.

Radahn Rykard also perfectly aligns with Raymond Richard, *dons tinfoil hat*

I think there’s enough bits from interviews to establish that, more or less the show ends with the same beats and same larger arcs, however the finer points of how we get there and the emotional stakes and payoff will differ.

People in the comments, Martin’s blog post and across this and other reports all seem to be missing the bit that made it seem like GRRM’s initials were deliberately placed there:

I think it’s more a case of placeholder/leftover/oversight element kinda bug, like an area that was going to be used in cut content, or for an area they plan on developing in DLC, than something which would have any negative blowback to the world. 

If anyone wants to trivialize PvE, grab the Blasphemous Blade from exchanging Rykard’s Remembrance, level up to 7+ with Somber Smithing Stones, have high Strength and Faith, buff self with Black Flame’s Protection, Flame, Grant me Strength, light yourself and everything around you on fire with the Flame of Frenzy and…

The real game is Azad and it’s played on a Board of Origin, the Board of Form, and a Board of Becoming and actually is much more complex than chess.

On its face, this statement seems to reflect at least a little more movement than George R.R. Martin’s usual “I’ll get to it when I get to it” responses, but saying that something is “finished mostly” might as well mean “we haven’t started, please stop asking.”

And that’s a bit of a shame; Star Wars doesn’t do bummer endings all that often. Other than Revenge, the closest the franchise has gotten in this regard has been the endings to Clone Wars and Rogue One

Malenia is super cool, but Ranni and Blaidd are probably my favorites. I can’t resist a wolfman or a big witch hat.

The ol’ World of Warcraft manual when it still came in CD form (lol) was thicc with explanatory lore of the previous games, explanations of its systems, breakdowns of classes and abilities, last time I remember enjoying a game manual on its own merits.