While I love the Dead Rising series in theory, that’s the main reason I’ve never actually finished one of them. I get to a certain point and analysis paralysis/obsession with optimizing my actions kicks in, and I lose all desire to start it up again. It becomes more stress than it’s worth.

Hmm. I looked at those, but the main one I'd be considering using is a Microsoft force feedback one, which apparently requires some weird third-party hacks to get it to work with that sort of adapter.

It's possible that info is outdated, though. I'll look into it!

I had two old joysticks I was planning to use for the new wave of space flight games, and then I realized....

...because it's been so long since I last had to use them, my motherboard no longer has the proper port for them.

Oh, well. Guess that just means I'm in the market for a new one.

Amnesia is a weird one. I thought it was really effective...right up until the first time I died.

After that point, the game effectively lost all tension. The spell had been broken. I knew there would be no real consequences if I were caught, and the monsters I'd heard grunting and shuffling had been revealed as just…

Hey, not a problem. Stuff happens, and pretty much everything takes priority over internet discussions. I appreciate the consideration, though.

Yeah, I sincerely don't get how they didn't go with "Super 3DS" or something, given the button color scheme.

Yeah, HBS has definitely earned my trust with both SR and Dragonfall. They were also really good about treating their backers with respect and decency.

The first Total War game was Shogun: Total War, a game set in the Warring States period in Japan (15th to 17th century).

I don't mean to be rude, but at this point, a lot of what you're arguing seems to me to revolve largely around semantics rather than actual, meaningful impact.

Says who? For who?

All critique will ultimately be based in opinion, if only because of things like, "In my opinion, this critical paradigm applies to X"

The second season is a bit of a mixed bag. Urobuchi's lighter involvement really comes through, I think.

It's not all bad, and it has some genuinely clever bits in it, but overall it felt kind of...scattered and not as coherent as the first season did. Of course, having half the number of episodes probably didn't help;…

Sure. Like, I don't think the vast majority of terrible trans portrayals/jokes/whatever are done out of malice (though I do think discomfort often plays a role). It's done because it's an easy joke, in a way that gay people used to be (but aren't so much anymore) and that racial minorities used to be (but aren't so…

To be fair, there is such a thing as 'gay agenda'

Okay, but good satire is subjective. I'm not arguing about what the definition of good satire is, only that what you're saying isn't necessarily the definition of it. I'm arguing for the breadth; It's you who is arguing for the specificity to claim that this is bad satire. And further, to say that it's bad satire…

Well, now who's responding in sideways angles?

Yes, exactly, and further, to the vast majority of the audience, any negative stuff about "straight people" will typically be brushed off ("I'm straight, and I'M not like that!") Because trans people (or gay people, or other minorities) are "other", it's much easier to attribute those negative qualities to the entire…

But that's the thing. Satire of subaltern groups generally isn't "insightful". It's almost always merely repeating existing narratives about those groups.

I don't even think we're disagreeing on the definition of satire; I think you're assuming I'm arguing something that I'm not actually arguing.

But like that poster mentioned, the advert in the game is making more a statement about the off hand nature real life people may make about transsexual people such as the heavily exploitative hollywood media culture.