What, no mention of Metroid Prime’s Phendrana Drifts? Disappointing.

Turns out games like Mass Effect that are heavy on personal choice can reveal a lot about a person’s priorities. When this friend told me she chose Destroy and why, and stood by that decision even when I mentioned the repercussions, it got me to re-examine a lot of other things she had done that strongly indicated a…

Yeah, I definitely ended a friendship over a choice they made in a video game, that was the sole contributing factor to the ending of that relationship.

I am...cautiously optimistic. I liked where they were going with Andromeda, I just would’ve liked them to be more ambitious with the premise and execution. Bringing back Liara and the Milky Way galaxy presents the aforementioned problem of canonizing one of the endings, but I do like the implications that this isn’t…

Synthesis, for several reasons:

Interesting. Allegedly, Squeenix has been rather uncooperative with Cloud’s inclusion in Smash, refusing to give him an English VA and limiting the amount of music that could be included. That they consented to adding a second character with more music makes me wonder what the behind-the-scenes implications could be.

Quite so. What we really need is for all political campaigns to be publicly funded: no privately funded ads or fundraisers, just public interviews and debates designed to allow every candidate equal time to present and argue for their platform purely so voters can make informed decisions.

Pretty much the only issue I had with this: I understand being respectful of the person’s new identity, but news outlets need to do a better job of providing context to the rest of us or it just creates confusion rather than information.

For two reasons:

We’re finally starting to see some pushback against corporate donors, at least. Not a lot, but it’s a start.

It is SUPER sleazy. A study was performed a few years ago showing that, for at least the past half-century, the actual policy proposals of elected officials had almost no correlation with the desires of the average citizen and almost 100% correlation with the desires of rich donors. It’s a big reason why, for decades,…

It’s not difficult to see why Tillis would push a proposal that benefits big companies in the entertainment industry to the detriment of regular people; The American Prospect points out that in the past couple years, Tillis’ campaign committee and leadership received donations totaling out to well over $100,000…

Yeah, save that for the National Guard, the local sheriff does not need an armored vehicle.

I think prisons should be abolished (cops too) in favor of efforts that meaningfully tackle the societal issues that lead to crime and violence while establishing programs geared toward restorative justice after crimes are committed.

No problem. Yeah, I think most MMO players have gotten kind of cynical about the quality of content in their games, that they’ve stopped expecting it to be fun or interesting and that it’s just a formality to go through on their way to endgame; after all, you rarely have MMOs where your character is able to be a…

It definitely had the best combat of the series, I just wish they’d been more creative with the story.

Yeah, instead of having one main expansion questline, WoW instead has a dozen smaller ones scattered throughout the content; one for each zone plus sidequests and then a few expansion-spanning questlines for the raids, which is about as close as you could get to a main expansion campaign. The best comparison to…

From what I can recall, no, once you have completed a quest on a character, you cannot go back and replay it on that character, and no, there is no official reason why this is not allowed. (Though I imagine implementing that might be a coding nightmare for all of the thousands of quests currently in the game.) In…

Speaking to WoW specifically, half of the “fun” of the game is getting emotionally invested in the world and its characters and then watching how those stories unfold; the moment-to-moment parts of the quest chain are rarely exciting, but like reading a book, you’re compelled to keep going in order to experience all…

Given the tone and terminology used on their Kickstarter page, which is heavy on its objectification of women and marketing towards “edgy” teens, it feels like they knew exactly what kind of person Arch is and what kind of audience he has.