Trump may be a blunt-tongued shitbag, but he’s not wrong about the need for more funding for real mental health facilities. I have family members from my parents and grandparents’ generation who were very well-served by facilities like that, and every single one are gone now; those facilities were closed up mostly…

I couldn’t disagree more. I think the War Table is a particularly egregious example of “telling” instead of “showing” in this game’s design. I get the intent behind it, which is what you state here, to make you feel like your movement is growing and has an impact on the wider world as a whole. The problem is that you…

Frankly, I think Origins has easily the best traversal mechanics of the entire series, Unity included. It still retains shades of the “press X to go up, O to go down” traversal mechanic, just cleaned up and streamlined so it works on pretty much every surface. Movement has never been so smooth and precise in an AC…

This absolutely would have happened at my Catholic high school. My school also had prohibitions against staff divorcing and remarrying. There were a pair of divorced teachers who had an ongoing romantic relationship for DECADES, but couldn’t marry each other because it would have meant the loss of their jobs.

A better article title would be “How people rationalize stealing video games.”

Joking btw.

A white dress counts as “costume” now? I guess my wife cosplayed this character last week without me realizing. ;)

Is “brunette with pony tail and neon lighting” really cosplay, though?

Jizo is a bodhisattva, not exactly a deity. More people in the West should learn about Buddhism.

Hell of a counterpoint. Mic successfully dropped.

On the one hand, I am definitely wary of some of the ridiculous crap on Youtube, but on the other hand, my six year old’s love of Minecraft basically grew out of watching Dennis Daly Let’s Plays (one of the truly kid-friendly Lets Play channels. He does a great job with it—highly recommended.) Before that, she really…

I agree overall that the story could have been stronger, but I still feel like it’s lightyears better than the shitshows that were Unity and especially Syndicate’s stories. The emotional beats about Bayek and Aya’s sense of loss and their marriage is clearly the best part, and in my opinion, really does resonate well…

It’s worth noting that none of the individual Ezio games had great stories (ACII was the closest but botched the landing by NOT having you kill Rodrigo Borgia) either. It’s only when all three games are taken together that the story feels reasonably satisfying. And honestly, I think a huge part of that was the…

My guess is that after largely abandoning a lot of the modern narrative stuff in the last few games, they’re tentatively testing the waters to see if they can build out a proper modern story with a new named lead character a la Desmond. I think enough people lamented the lack of it over the past several games that…

Just recast Leia and be done with it. Old Carrie Fisher wasn’t THAT good.

It’s not tone policing, it’s professionalism policing. This kid couldn’t respond with anything resembling a strong argument so she resorted to swearing and ad hominem attacks on Banfield’s appearance. It was ridiculous, and damaging to her whole cause. There are good and bad ways to respond to criticism, and she dove…

I will always ridicule immature morons, no matter their age. That said, you’re right. It’s less that she was 22 and more that she demonstrated the maturity of an actual child (or at least bratty teenager.)

If you can make sex last long enough to keep your heart rate in the aerobic range for a sustained period, then theoretically, yes. :)

Absolutely. And then she further destroyed all credibility the original article might have had when she sent that ranting, profanity-laden email to Ashleigh Banfield. Sigh...22-year olds.

“So much discussion about how bad on the proverbial “Sexual assault scale” this encounter was and who is to blame and not enough about just pay attention and show some respect.”

We can all blame the ridiculous immaturity of the Babe reporter for that one. The original Jezebel piece was dead right; if this had been…