Vault of Glass, Crota’s End, King’s Fall, and Wrath of the Machine

I consider Birthright and Conquest as the prologues to Revelations, the meat of the plot: the first two are more straight-forward stories where you have more of an opportunity to get to know the characters on each side before Revelations brings it all together. This is doubly true due to Revelations’ tendency to throw…

Honestly, they should really just make 40 the starting health. Would go a long way to cleaning out a lot of the issues with faceroll aggro and “30 to dead” combos constantly plaguing the game, and Molten Giant would actually be playable again.

A lot of this is why I always liked the Soul Calibur series more than any other fighting game: because so many of the moves had simple inputs, you were able to focus more on the tactical situation and thinking about which moves to use rather than complex command chains and combos.

Oh they should definitely be held accountable, but let’s make sure we’re holding them accountable for the right things. Part of the point of the article is people, for whatever silly reason, feeling persecuted because they’re inaccurately being called racist. It would probably be more productive to accurately call…

See, thing is, a lot of these people? They aren’t actually racist. A lot of them assumed that surely, Trump didn’t mean half the things he said. Build a wall? Of course he’s not literally going to do that, they’ve said, that was just rhetoric or metaphor he was using! They didn’t believe he would actually repeal…

It’s a shame. Halo Wars 1 wasn’t stellar, but it was entertaining and certainly demonstrated that the controls could hold up a RTS type of game, it just needed a solid campaign to exercise that gameplay with. Sad to hear the sequel is basically just a repeat of the first.

I posted this in a previos Nioh article, but given the context it’s worth reposting: if anyone’s interested in seeing the events mentioned here played out in order, Extra Credits did a fantastic history series on the time period.

Well, obviously when I said details I didn’t mean get into specifics, but give people more than vague promises of “we’re going to fix things!” I would say the first thing we could do is create incentives for businesses to move out there; coal and other fossil fuel industries aren’t coming back, so we need some…

The Democratic party, with a few exceptions, has been an empty suit for almost two decades now: content to sit and twiddle their thumbs while Republicans run roughshod over them in the vast majority of elections. Our two parties do not need to be Conservatives and Conservatives Lite.

For some bizarre reason, the Democrats have forgotten the old Clinton motto “it’s the economy, stupid”; arguments of morality and equality don’t matter much to the people in poverty constantly one paycheck away from the abyss, and Sanders knew that. Our economic policies have been doing big favors for the rich and big…

As someone who has played and enjoyed both, Awakening is definitely the better choice for newcomers: less-complicated story and mechanics, appealing characters and excellent writing.

Fire Emblem games tend to have much better than “typical JRPG” storylines, standouts being Awakening, Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn for the Gamecube/Wii and the first one available in English (titled simply “Fire Emblem”) on the GBA. This isn’t to say that they’re without flaws, but they tend to deal with subject…

Hopefully they’ll one day address the inherent problem of aggro instead of just treating the occasional symptoms: so far, we’ve dealt with Undertaker Hunter, Face Hunter, Mech Mage, Tempo Mage, Secret Paladin, Dragon Warrior, Egg Druid, Murlock, TWO flavors of Aggro Shaman and Pirate Warrior, and we’re still ending up…

She was certainly pretty tanky in Fates stat-wise, so I guess that makes sense.

Holy shit, man, sentences. Complete thoughts that end with a period. Use them, please.

Yes, because the fact that she reacted violently to being provoked is just as bad as being sexually harassed and then slammed into a table.

So the guy makes comments that essentially boil down to “hey, I think you’re attractive” but are delivered in a way that denies the woman agency, and when she objects to how his comments are delivered, he immediately interprets her rejection as an insult to his masculinity and gets defensive.

That was the closest American analogy I could think of.

Extra Credits did a series on the time period Nobunaga took part in, and he’s a major aspect of the first four episodes. Probably the simplest way to put it is that Nobunaga is both admired and feared for his ferocity; he’s a lot closer to Malcolm X, or to a lesser extent Teddy Roosevelt, than George Washington.