After 200 hours in Fire Emblem Three Houses I decided the next thing to do was play another 100+ hours RPG...Dragon Quest XI S. Its so well done and i’m really glad I waited for this version instead of the PS4.

sigh....Season 3 was the best reboot ever to hit my television screen, bar none by a long shot.

Counterpoint! It was absolutely perfect. This is a fairly trite comparison at this point, but explaining why it felt so wonderful feels like trying to describe a dream. (That smoking scene deserves an award for body language choreography!) There was a Sunday night in 2017 where I was watching TV and saw both a flying…

“I’m not a doctor or a psychiatrist but I’ve spoken with Natalia and I believe her. If you’re asking me if I think she is 30, that’s ridiculous.”

Wait, is this a thing? I once had a 15-year-old boy in my summer school class who made me feel uneasy for some reason I couldn’t put my finger on, and he turned out to be a 22-year-old Ukrainian national who’d overstayed his visa and was paying some family to “adopt” him. He’s now in prison on a bunch of charges.

If you look at the ads that run on Raw or Smackdown you know who I’m talking about - KFC, Snickers, I think Gillette used to be a sponsor back in the day, I know Stridex was years ago.

That is super fucking cool that Tim is getting to do that! He really seems to love the nuances of translation, so I’m really stoked that he got this opportunity!

Oh god I want this. I don't need anything. I want.

At the two video game studios I worked at, flex time was always in effect, and the studio had various on site testers that were full time.

Seriously now. Fuck mobile games for 3 fucking reasons:

This timeline is great, but unfortunately it won’t get justice for the Electric Sun 20. Burn in hell, Doctor San!

Coming back to this in the morning and seeing a lot of “Heather, leave this this to us hardcore gamers if you can’t beat it.” or whatever and I just gotta... like... remind folks who I am and what I do for a living:

We can talk about difficult as an aesthetic choice all we want and I’m down for that discussion (failure and death are big things for FromSoft games) but easy is relative and I place my trust in designers to build these modes such that the particularities they want to stress still exist.. If combat cadence is a design…

Add an easy mode and he won’t have to settle for watching someone else have fun, friendo. And the good news is that you don’t lose anything in the process either.

That *is* harsh though because you’re all but asking players with disabilities to go elsewhere. In this example, an easy mode or even a series of toggles that allow players to customize game experiences is about allowing them to participate in that experience. It’s inclusive, and not in the dime-store way that word is…

Nice job as always, Jason; thanks for confirming a lot of what we all feared. A game that was rushed out and built with a toolset that at the very least wasn’t an ideal fit. And not learning from Destiny’s missteps because they couldn’t talk about Destiny is pretty galling.

I feel sorry for this woman. She didn’t deserve what happened to her. It only happened because she was around a predator and he decided he wanted to assault her. This is a the horrible thing about rape culture. It lulls women into think thinking if something hasn’t happened to them then what’s his name can’t be a…

The epidural may have contributed to slowing down my labor and in turn they had to use pitocin to keep it progressing, but I’d been laboring for nearly 24 hours, mostly at home, and the back labor was not easy with my sciatica. With baby #2, everything was much smoother and the epidural was easy and smooth and my…

In a similar but unrelated note, I now bump into men who walk right into my path instead of moving to the side as we pass on narrow sidewalks.