We buy toys, but do we buy them from the larger retail stores? I sometimes swing into a Toy store every once in a while and I’m pretty much always dissapointed by the selection. Most of my stuff I either get online or from a smaller outlet like my local comic shop where they have more niche or obscure stuff.

Yo, nice edit on the headline! Much better!!!!

100% agree....and I hate that your headline spoils it!!!!

All you can do watching that episode is sit at the end of your seat waiting for them to absolutely destroy something so beautiful as they have time and time again and the best you can hope for is it wont be animal fornication related....but instead they actually…

^I worry I’m falling pray to hyperbolic paranoia sometimes....but the world honestly seems primed for a global conflict right now and North Korea is just a piece of the puzzle. Consider: there’s Russia and its efforts to manipulate western democracies while annexing surrounding nations, and there’s the fact that China…

I’m still trying to work my way through Destiny 1 to properly appreciate Destiny 2.....and yeah....its proving difficult to get a team to even run Vault of glass once.

Oh please. Next you’re gonna tell me the swastika was co-opted. /S

I haven’t been to 4chan in a lifetime to be fair, so maybe I’m totally off base now...but a platform like Reddit is different in this regard since there are countless thriving seperate sub communities and something like “the_donald” is an abberation.
People paint 4chan with broader strokes because its entire culture…

We’re at a really fascinating crossroads for the direction of the Sonic franchise right now potentially. Two games in one year that each offer radically different directions for the hedgehog....and depending on which is more successful may make the difference both in how they go forward and who the gatekeepers are.

^Shoutouts to Obsidian for being one of the few developers to give a damn about this. I finally started playing Tyranny the other day and its the first time I can remember since Kotor II where I made a character and thought it could be worth m while to lump all my stats into intelligence modifiers.

....are you expecting me to disagree?

I’ve seen analysis of this that made a compelling case that this is the result of the long winters combined with the existence of Dragons. Both of them have effectively halted technological progress.

Look, far be it from me to argue *against* showmanship. Some of my favorite players are known more for their personas than gameplay.

That said, end of the day the payer needs to ask themselves: “Am I a competitor, or an entertainer?” Do you want to win the crowd, or the gold? If you can do both great, but what’s…

Your point is fair, and perhaps better framing or phrasing could clarify.

End of the day the competitor’s only real concern is to win within the rule set they are given. They can be a part of the conversation regarding what the rule set should be....but there will always be a disconnect and a divergence on the desires…

Eh....that honestly depends on the context and who you’re talking to. Its fair to say I think that fighting game players generally prefer “more options and playstyles”. Often this leads to an attitude of “let it rock”, but there are instances where a certain strategy or tool so completely dominates the meta that to…

Well, first off Evo isn’t run by Capcom, but more to the point:

Again, I want to stress I’m not a part of the smash community so I don’t have firsthand experience, but my understanding is that the community generally is at *best* divided with regards to iterations of smash past melee. Now its fair to say there’s…

Not a melee fan: but what this boils down to is that they are filling a void Nintendo wont. Capcom, NRS, Namco, Arksys, etc. all now offer longterm support for the games competitive lifecycle.

Nintendo doesn’t care about the competitive scene, so they’ve decided to make due on their own.

“but it’s still unsettled whether fighting game pros need to entertain spectators while trying to do so.”

Uh, no, that is settled. Players are under absolutely no obligation to do this. If boring to watch strategies are what come to dominate the meta then its on the developers to adjust the systems in place, not the…

The whitewashing criticism is a bit overblown to me. Someone can feel free to make a case otherwise, but unlike Avatar or Ghost in the Shell there’s nothing I can think of in the series that makes being japanese/asian a defining character trait for Light or the plot. I see nothing wrong with making him white or L…

Honestly I think about the only thing which could get me more hyped for this is if they announced a Team fourstar voice pack.....

I’m not a scientist or a health expert of any sort. Just a fitness enthusiast. So take my opinion for what its worth:

I’ve come to the determination that our biggest problem when we try to look at diet and health is that we keep looking for the secret ingredient or the one size that fits all scenarios....and it does…