If they can take her money (and we’re not talking about time to mail in a cheque where the money is not in their system), then they need to be prepared to act on it. Don’t really care about any holiday. If they can keep the power off on a holiday, they can also turn it on. I worked my share of holidays for utility and…

I wonder if it’s a question of perspective to the player.

I’ve been watching this on the periphery for a bit. I don’t play the games, but I can appreciate a game that causes a bunch of theorycrafting. For the most part, it seems like a lot of the big players in the game work well together. Finishing the game seemed less of a dick measuring contest, and more of a needed step…

While Fukushima won’t get this typhoon, it definitely does get typhoons. Source: I lived an hour north of Fukushima and we got typhoons.

I’m not sure if you could fit any more weasel word buzzwords into your screed, but I give you credit for their density.

You’re worried about the cleanliness of a shirt?

But when the throwers land in Overwatch’s bottom rungs, along with doe-eyed new players, they do real damage. With a much higher skill level, they’ll ravage these low-ranked players in wholly uncompetitive, unsportsmanlike games.

I know for me, gaming is an expression of my problems with anxiety and depression. I’ve been a heavy gamer since the early 80s, from C64s and arcades, to modern day PC gaming. I doubt a day goes by where I don’t log in to some sort of game.

I met Richard Garriot at GenCon in ‘94, and I got to awkwardly fangirl about the games briefly. He asked what I’d like to see in the next one, and my answer was basically “stop making me buy a new computer every time.” Along with my 120MB HDD, I went and spent about $150 to bump my RAM up to 2 MB. Yeah, my power PC.…

I think you hit the nail on the head there. I’ve rarely played games where the characters have felt so human. I’ve wondered over the years if it was because it was one of the first games I played like that, and it was somehow given disproportionate weight, but no. It really was something more subtle than that. People…

The idea was that Bat and Cat would marry, not Bruce and Selina. That’s why they had a drunk judge as the officiant, so he wouldn’t remember the civilian identities.

I mean, a failed wedding. Oh no, who ever could have seen that coming? The only thing more predictable than a failed wedding is a character that dies and come back. What’s the use of these kind of stories? We all know they don’t matter because it’ll be forgotten or undone in 3 episodes anyway.

Well, I mean... Van Halen’s “(Might as well) Jump (head first into the deepest pits of Hell)“ was a pretty catchy song.

“It was a time when the ‘Moral Majority,’ who condemned video games regularly and called people like me ‘the devil,’

I’m playing Stardew valley, and I don’t even know if I like it. It’s certainly a lot more... sedate than I normally play. But everything else is letting me down right now. All the games I want to play are early access and don’t have enough content. Or I’ve played them into the ground.

Actually, my only thought was that it’s amazing how many DNL letters start with “I’m model hot, with a genius IQ, good at my job, endlessly charming, and often have people stop me on the street to tell me they wish they could be more like me, but...”  ;)

“She said, ‘You are responsible for protecting the talent, protecting the brand,’” one of the people aware of the meeting said. “She said, ‘You are responsible as the producers. You have to protect the talent and the brand.’”

I realize this may not be the case for you, but most people are capable of caring about two or more things at once.

Where’s the lie in what I said though? Candy Crush has been downloaded over 2 billion times. That must make it the best, most compelling game of all time, right?

These are the games that get reinstalled day one onto new PCs or drives, and don’t tend to leave: