You seem to like this game in literally the exact opposite ways that I did. You loved the war table stuff; I hated that. You hated Sera; I thought she was one of the best characters.

We do share a loathing of Solas though, so at least there’s that.

I agree with all of your positions save one—free college tuition. I am a higher ed professor, and I can all but guarantee you that mandated free tuition would be nothing but a massive funding cut to colleges and universities across the country, and would more or less guarantee worse higher ed outcomes across the board.

Pro gun control guy here. This is what compromise looks like. We should applaud it as it’s the only way real change can happen.

I rented it once or twice but actually mostly played single-player games (Zelda, Metroid Prime, Resident Evil, etc.) The main competitive multiplayer game I played regularly was Mario Kart.

It may be comfortable, but I seriously think that the Gamecube controllers were the flimsiest controllers of any system I’ve ever owned. I’ve been a gamer all my life, and the only console where I consistently wore out controllers was the Gamecube. I went through something like 6 controllers across that system’s life…

I definitely would also say that. :)

At this point, I think it’s safe to say that No Man’s Sky fans are easily impressed.

You almost have to LIKE Trump on this one...almost.

Vapes are still carcinogenic. Not as much as burning a cigarette, true, but to suggest that they are a “healthy alternative” that doesn’t release carcinogens is wishful thinking at best.

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…