I agree, if partially for different reasons.
Twitch has always been aimed at appealing to children, age-wise and intellectually. The fact that so many grown fucking adults are up in arms about a stupid goofy face is an astonishing indictment of the stunted emotional growth of the world today. Starting to think people coping with alcoholism like they did 100…
It is so stupid to continue using the faces of real people for emotes. This is a dumb tradition from the early day of Twitch. It trains the audience to treat people as commodities rather than human beings.
This has kind of been the basis of my argument for a while now. For the most part, the Left, such as it is, tries to go with the moral high ground, making arguments and statements in good faith and then getting kicked in the teeth anyway. Meanwhile, the Right, such as it is, repeatedly and without fail does everything…
I think that’s also endemic of (a) “fair and balanced” journalism still (mistakenly) means that you need to give every side of an argument equal representation no matter how insignificant their minority might be or if they’re acting in bad faith, and (b) outrageous stories get eyes on your product and clicks on…
I don’t know - it feels like one of the major problems we have (beyond Tech companies only doing the right thing when it’s safe or financially advantageous, even not enforcing their own policies to do so) is that there is a huge epidemic of bad-faith argumentation on the Right that we don’t treat as bad faith.
It’s…
I hate roguelikes and I absolutely love Hades. Pick it up - you won’t be sorry! Sunk so many hours into it without it ever feeling repetitive.
I really hate rogue likes also, but a good friend if mine insisted I try it, and I had a chance to pick it up for super cheap so I went ahead and did it.
You’d have to drastically change ME1 to actually make it play well, I suspect we’ll get a facelift and just tough it out tbh its not the worst game you can play its just old and shows it.
Good management ability should be rewarded. If anything, that would send symbolic signals that hopefully will shift the culture of game development. Hearing how Hades was developed made me want to play the game more, and that is something we should promote.
Honestly, fuck him. Cullen is a cool character but he could easily be recast. Hell that character mostly finished his arc in DA:I so he could never show up again and I wouldn’t mind. Anders was recast once already so nobody would likely notice. There is a reason why people in the entertainment industry don’t publicly…
one of my family members is a QAnoner who thinks it’s all made up, etc.
Plenty of facts that fly in the face of the rampant denialism. They keep saying its just like the flu and yet Covid has killed more than the flu has in the combined past 5 years. Our inability to be mildly uncomfortable for the sake of others has put us into this mess and although I’m happy a vaccine is on the…
Remember back in April when medical professionals were saying that if we didn’t get our shit together we’d be looking at a “worst case scenario” of 250,000 Americans dead?
First, my sympathies. I was down with COVID-19 for almost 10 days. Days 5-9 are a blur to me where I could barely keep my breath crossing the house to use the bathroom.
It was the first time in my life where I was too sick to even think about playing video games. I just...couldn’t. They’ve always been a source of…
The fact that 277,000 dead Americans later we are still struggling to convince people that COVID is “real” depresses the shit out of me.
Andromeda is more of a side story then anything else, but honestly, I would like to see a remaster of it at some point. Take what they learned, fix the bugs, take all of the planned DLC that was dumped on it in the shallow grave EA dug for it, adjust the multiplayer (Which was damned good before they skyrocketed the…
There’s a pretty clear reason those second amendment folks seem more interested in protecting tyranny than stopping it
I think most people who have pointed out right-wing fascist tendencies growing since the Bush years can now feel thoroughly vindicated in saying “I told you so”.
All the “you’re being alarmist, what will you do when a REAL fascist shows up?” people – the whole half-of-an-electorate of them –have proven conclusively…