The moment I saw that Sims 2 launched without pets, I dropped the franchise. It was so clear I’d have to just rebuy all the expansions all over again for each new entry, just to get stuff like... pets.

I mean, same plagiarism rules apply. If you say something is your art when you used someone else’s art as a base without permission, that’s still plagiarism, no matter how high tech your plagiarism is. A high tech collage is still a collage.
It’s still a neat way to get references and get art for personal use (say, for…

That’s exactly what I was thinking. The game has new content all the time, including combat trials. Some are even timed and scored. Every few updates there’s even new bosses. There is no “endgame”.

At best what it’s missing is some longer well crafted co-op dungeons, instead of the usual single room fighting trials.

“how often they “toggle” between screens on their computer”

Of those I had played Gylt. Liked it quite a lot and do hope it’ll get some proper life on a different platform.

I’m glad Disney seems to have figured out how to use Star Wars as a setting, not a genre. I’m liking Andor and looking forward to seeing more. But now that we know Star Wars can do serious thrillery things, I’d like them to try something very different next. Maybe a horror? Or a sitcom? Or a romance! Maybe lets try a…

That’s my view. Sure, maybe he didn’t know, but then he sucks at his job. Maybe he did know, but then he sucks at his job. He shouldn't be doing it. Not wanting to learn/denying the real issue just shows there's no way for it to get better

Things are on the right track, says survey where the people affected by the toxicity are just a small fraction or left.

Don’t think it’s necessarily a growing up with social media thing.
There’s always going to be people who only see others as shallow and unthinking. Be it “sheeple”, “normies”, or “npc”. Always that feeling like they’re so special (yet insecure), but really being immature and oblivious to the depths of those around them.…

From the little I’ve seen it actually looks really good for the part of development it’s in!

I still wish the modern day story had culminated in a full modern day game. Like, watchdogs but AC flavored and finishing the story from the previous AC games

I really isn’t that hard dude... Don’t let people plan attacks on people on your platform. That’s all it takes to keep running. Even if it was just a subset of users ruining everything for everyone else? Well, it was your responsibility to stop them.

I think Genshin has always been pretty good at this, which is probably one of the main reasons I stick with the game. Even without large quests focusing on them, you end up getting to know so many NPCs, their lives and struggles, just by little moments as you're going about your quests and commissions. At this point I…

I don’t understand why this is such a huge conversation. It’s equivalent to tracing and should be treated that way. Meaning it has uses, nice for learning, inspiration, and personal stuff. It’s plagiarism if used for a final product.
There’s no ethical conundrum. We already have a model of what it means.

I just brought up twitter because “twitter main character” is a known concept and this and other articles focused on the twitter reaction.

that was just an example of how people aren’t even agreeing on what the problem is.
No matter the reason people dislike it, I’m exhausted by the excessive reaction it has been getting.

Honestly, I find the reaction everyone is having to it exhausting. It’s so excessive, it feels a lot like when people pile on the “twitter main character of the day”
Heck, people can’t even agree on what is the problem. Some people apparently latched on to the idea that people don’t ever talk to themselves/have inner…

Good to know. When the heatwave hit a few weeks ago, I wondered if it was safe for the little machine.

If not for sensitivity, then for character variation. Why not use all options, including darker skintones when designing characters, when designing a character? It’s right there and available? It’s so weird to opt to have all/most characters have lighter skin colors.


... also hoping for more body types at some point

I generally don’t care for having more star wars content based on main characters, but honestly I would actually love a Leia show with the actress they had in this. I think she did a great job, and would love to see what she’d do with the role a bit more grown up and playing, dunno, Leia balancing being a princess,…