we call it “Nintendo Hard” and it refers not just to Contra, but of the many, many games of absolutely absurd difficulty that came out on that system.

“kids are stupid. They can’t play a terrible game. Back in my day our games were ugly and hard and read like poorly translated stereo instructions. Games today are crap.”

Blatter Cancer

Or it’s like a pretty accurate interpretation of the brutality of the middle ages (viewed, of course, through the lens of its own fantasy setting).

I’ve never seen this show, so here’s my grossly misinformed opinion.

How do you figure that you’re qualified to say it adds nothing to the narrative when the narrative is unfinished and you, presumably, do not have any inside information as to what direction it's going? Without knowing what the narrative is, how can you say what does and does not serve it?

You know nothing, Freddie DeBoer.

Here’s my hot taek:

You could ask this about 90% of any scene from any movie or television show ever created. It’s a silly question to ask.

This is very Slate-y.

hot take! i dont know, maybe the depravity of this scene sets up Theon to finally break free of his servitude, maybe ally with Sansa and start to take some control. he needed something fucked up to snap him back to reality. i dont know, no one does yet unless youre involved in the show. but i doubt it was purposeless.

Another reason to like smaller game studios. They can focus on the little things that’ll inevitably give them good press

I would gladly wait 3-6 months longer for a good game made under more humane conditions than get a rushed bug ridden game where everyone worked 80 hours for weeks on end

What a great piece of writing. One of the people said that what they are looking for in these private vanilla servers is not the old WoW and their old way of lives. This is so true, I never played WoW but I played Guild Wars a lot when I was in High school (05-09) I got home and would sit down in my PC and play it…

one of my friends use this same argument to say that it wasnt a violation of terms of use. Her logic was that you were manipulating your hardware and not the game.

Guys should use this technique.

I love that lazy development is constantly being viewed as “Secrets”

As someone who doesn’t know the comics and doesn’t have a TV and didn’t read about the movie beforehand, Vision’s introduction is REALLY confusing. This weird red guy is created in a glitchy abortion of the process that created the supervillain at the beginning of the movie and his first move is to attack Thor. With…

Has anyone seen a black lady with an onscreen speaking part in a Marvel movie?

I thought the fuel leakage on the SR-71 meant they would take off with a light fuel load and get the plane up to temp, and then fuel up in the air...