Count me as one player grateful for those escape exits. I hate when games make you waste time running from the innermost part of a dungeon all the way back to the exit. That’s time spent not playing.

In chess, this principle is known as “The threat is stronger than the execution.”

Sound cues. Queues are something else.

Funny, because I also have a few decades of gaming experience, including a few years of experience with my current group, who are almost all total noobs, and my current group has never even come close to wrecking the campaign. They make the campaign.

Here’s the one that gets me: In the Pillars of Eternity series, he plays two different secondary characters, Aloth and Edér. And I never realized this until I saw the preannounced credits for Deadfire.

You, sir, need to learn about metaphors.

Lovely idea, but The Elder Scrolls: Online was so fucking boring that Bethesda has lost its chance of selling me on any MMORPG.

Here’s a great phrase for situations like those: “How could we find the answer to that?”

It makes me want to say, “Sounds like you’re the one who’s going to be in trouble.”

There are plenty of Clintons in office. They just aren’t legal members of the family.

Has the made-in-Japan-product-manual typeface been replaced with something aesthetically unabhorrent? If it has, then maybe I’ll consider playing.

Overwatch’s new deathmatch map, Petra, is full of Pharah-friendly open spaces, jump pads, and a break-away floor, but like any crumbling ruin worth its salt, it’s also got mysteries.

You’re very much mistaken about that.

If this had been posted in a more public location, “I proved you incorrect” would be an instant meme.

Apparently, Blizzard doesn’t make enough money to produce a game that’s the same quality as their animated shorts.

Here’s what you need to know about Overwatch:

Here’s what you need to know about Overwatch:

The man is impervious to conscience.

So, um, I love The Expanse as much as anybody, and I want to see it rescued as much as anybody . . . but if Amazon picks it up and it’s not available on any other platform, such as Google Play, it’s as good as dead to me. Because I’m not going to sign up for Amazon Prime just to watch one good TV show.

Only Mr. God knows why.

I thought the lore was good, but the fact that half the time it was being read aloud while I was trying to read it off the screen drove me crazy. I ended up not being able to give my full attention to either and missing a lot of important details, such as pretty much the entire theology, which I had to cram on at the…