Yes. All of the yes. I love you for posting this.

Whenever I think of Elliot Smith ...

You done good today. If you’re a fan, I suggest reading William Todd Schultz’s bio “Torment Saint.” It’s a pretty good read.

Pokemon Go never advertised itself as a replacement to the main series of Pokemon, though. It was designed as an entirely different kind of game.

I think so, although Idk if I’ve ever seen it. As long as the ball is in bounds you can play it. I’ve seen the goal keeper laying out of bounds but with the ball in bounds over the line and he’s fine

Why focus on things like rape prevention when we can have a hypothetical conversation about whether or not these sentient robots are being sexually assaulted? Like don’t you know that robots need consent too?

15 years later, Neopets is full of ads[..]

Maybe this is a filter of sorts so only really good cosplay is allowed?

EA’S been doing it with most of their sports games, Forza 3 did it, Gears 4 did it but you are confused. The Tuesday AFTER the Friday is the release day, you are paying the extra to play it 4 days early and get some bonuses. You aren’t paying extra to play it on release day.

Remember when Lifehacker featured a webpage, everybody went to that page and the host couldn’t handle the traffic? We said that the page was “Lifehackered”

That’s not what I’m talking about. Regardless of the setting, this is considered an amazing play and I don’t get why. It’s not a knock, I just don’t get it. Same way someone watching the Daigo Parry might go “uh...so why is that such a big deal?”. I get the Daigo Parry. I was besides myself with awe when I saw it.…

itll be awkward when strangers ask him if he was in the armed forces and get the reply “no im good at videogames”.

Misunderstood instructions, foaming at the mouth and convulsing on the floor, send help...

Don’t find it anymore tasteless than any other violent game based on war or other historical violence.

Sure. But it also took the concepts and then created its own tone - it was much more of a comedy than Pokemon was, especially since Pokemon has been more and more an action-esque anime with every iteration.

He posted on Reddit, so it was not technically writing to the company, although you could say that Bethesda folks are all over that subReddit, so...

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Ah, good old fashioned racism!

This is what I was hoping someone would point out. They’re all too busy insulting each other to have read the article.