not the kind of comment worth anyone’s time in the least

Say goodbye to small events everywhere that can’t afford the security/insurance costs.

Canadian here, killing shit in video games since 1986. Have fired a gun exactly once moose hunting with my grandfather I was 13.

Don’t forget how they shrink and huddle against the closest protection whenever they get even a little uncomfortable.

Yeah, I whitelisted a few Youtube creators I like, only to have the trust returned in the form of 6 minute long unskippable music videos, and 10 minute unskippable ads.

I feel no shame whatsoever at blocking video ads, period. Dear advertisers: video ads are an artifact of the TV era. It’s high time to let it go the way of the dodo. They do not entice me to buy your products, but instead provoke instant anger. Anger and sales don’t go together.

Hes virtue signaling his critisicm of virtue signaling. Its turtles all the way down!

They also have a deal where you can buy (don’t quote me on this, I’m not at my computer, but I’m close) like 1 expansion + 1 adventure pack + 1 stuff pack at $10 off, I think? Like $40? That’s what I usually do when I’m feeling the urge to play again. The expansions are generally good (I thought the Pets one was only…

Origin will have sales occasionally. You can pick up most pack around 25-50% off.

When I first started in the IT field a lifetime and a career change ago my first boss was a woman. She was brilliant, had previously designed defense systems for Boeing. I was fresh out of college and didn’t know a damn thing about a damn thing. (Although she got me up to speed quickly.) It was infuriating how often…

They were not portrayed as anything.

I always forget how popular TB was with the hair trigger set on display here. The circles I run in tend to recognize him for the asshat he was.

Solid piece Cecilia. You and your co-workers have been rocking out some great long-form journalism lately. Keep up the great work.

I really really like this article. Maybe I just haven’t been looking, but for years it’s felt like this subject gets a kind of bullet point regurgitated content treatment. The same old comparisons to addiction along with some anecdotes, but not a lot of thoughtfulness or nuance.

I remember moving through a dungeon (but I don’t remember which dungeon) with the group, when we came to a room with bloodied and torn carcasses all over the floor.

Between Dupre and the Banes, no game has ever had the emotional gut-punch of Serpent Isle- ever.

I remember looking up whatever walkthroughs I could find (on Prodigy, AOL and Compuserve) to see if there was something I could have done differently to save everyone. Just devastating.

Thank you for sharing and reading! So sorry you had to deal with that (for U7!). And agree on what you were saying about morality in 256 pixels! =)

No amount of “open-worldness” will ever be able to compete with a well- and DELIBERATELY-constructed, FOCUSED world in which a very specific series of events is designed to take place. To me, “open-worldness” always comes across as just a lazy cop-out to avoid having to do any real world building. BotW avoids this…