Or the right changes. I’ve seen some theorycrafting that Manchin has been building himself up as a champion of the filibuster specifically so he can knife it (make it a talking filibuster, add exceptions for civil/voting rights laws, etc.).

He got invited to even Fox News after his latest stunt, where he... spent a…

I know some progressives don’t see it this way, because I’ve seen a lot of whining about how Dems didn’t execute some mystery strategy and implement M4A or the minimum wage at the same time. Therefore betrayal, etc. 

Which is sad. Those things are desirable. What’s here is ALSO desirable, and will be a huge help to…

It’s a huge and ambitious piece of legislation. Bernie Sanders has stated it’s probably the most progressive piece of law in the last few decades, and he’s right. And so is everyone else who’s happy with this. 

There are literally pages of bullet points about all the people this will help, and it’s great. 

And to think I’d captured several of these through the “you have a 30% chance to capture” passive skill, and I’d never used them. 

The real question: should it have a COVID mode where people can’t actually stay in the coffee shop and have to be spaced? Make that an extra hard mode - or is it too depressing? 

Looks great, and I’ll never play it because they’re limiting themselves to Apple Arcade.

I’m honestly surprised Microsoft wouldn’t just pay them a big chunk of change to make another Lost Odyssey type game. 

I kind of get it. My PS5 has better exclusives and so on, but the XSX has gamepass and is letting me play a bunch of old 360 games (Lost Odyssey!) that I haven’t touched in years.

I’m playing Valhalla on my PS5 still, as well as Trails of Cold Steel IV (and then Tokyo Xanadu eX+, because I’m on a Falcom kick) but I can…

This is, weirdly, more convincing to me than Rowling’s own stances. Which seem to be getting largely ignored though not explicitly denounced by WB and her views weren’t known until well after the property became beloved all over the world. But having your project lead be this much of an asshat and retaining/promoting…

I’m not quite as far along on this as you, but I do sort of agree: The fundamental problem here is that the game basically lets you choose whether to be treated as a boy or a girl despite not having your character’s physical or vocal form match up, right? That seems like an unabashedly good thing - it’s pretty close…

Crisis Core was (I thought) really good! The story got exceedingly weird in a dumb way (it was 2000s era Square), but the combat was good and the general plot outline was excellent, as was Zach’s characterization. And the final battle was exactly the right way to end the game. Just perfect, from both a mechanical and…

I really do want them to do something like this for FF VI. A semi-lo-fi reproduction with good battle graphics and music.

Ah well, I’ll take this. If they put it somewhere other than my phone, because yuck.

Right, “Centrists”. That’s clearly it.

Yes. Operating in the real world is very hard, especially when 50% of the Senate is determined to block anything you do. 

And he’s not wrong. The $2000 is no longer being blocked, now it’s being negotiated and pushed through as part of a larger stimulus check.

Keep in mind that even with all of this, Democrats didn’t even get control of the Senate until early February due to Republican intransigence. And it’s not like that intransigence…

Hell, we have a bare majority in the Senate and there’s 1 Dem there who says he might want things to be a little smaller.

This is a problem. It is, in fact, BIDEN’S problem to solve. It is not Biden’s fault. But you know, sneering cynicism is cool I guess.

Sure, and that’s fine. But that’s not what’s happening here and not what happened during the campaign either.

There was a totally ridiculous review of Biden’s Animal Crossing island in September or Octoboer that just oozed sneering contempt and attacked Biden for... having memes and not discussing a ton of policy. In…

Oh look, it’s another sneering backhanded comment about Democrats from Kotaku writers. Joy. 

Too bad. I actually really enjoyed the game and thought the mechanics were good, though I also think it would have been much better as a single-player or not-live-service game - most of its problems were around loot or ever-increasing difficulty that made some core game mechanics not work or certain abilities just…

I mean, this IS an excellent reason.

Even a minor IT breach can cause a devteam to lock up until the breach is resolved. This gets particularly difficult during COVID, when everyone is working from home and the “quick solution” may involve axing the VPN or other major changes.

CDPR had all their source code stolen. That…

I don’t know - I think at the point you get that mega-horde you can handle it with careful planning and a lot of running. I did it on my first try without too much of a problem. But if you don’t have lots of explosives or automatic weapons this is going to be a tough fight. >_<

And the listening missions are a pain,…