Oh yeah! I remember I used to watch some streams from Battle and Brew for the NRS scene!

God that sounds like my dream spot. Where is this/what’s its name?

I would do unspeakable things to have a bar that catered to esports (especially fighting games).

I would *genuinely* consider building one if I had the capital or thought it would even break even. The thought of going to a pub during the next evo or capcom cup and knocking back a few cheering with the crowd is…

I’ve spoken on this before but:

One of the biggest failings of Mass Effect 3's ending (which they eventually semicorrected with the citadel DLC) was a complete failure to recognize the player’s emotional investment and attachment to its own lore.

The writer’s seemed to perceive that we would care about Earth…

Not just that: they’re also forms of regressive taxation.

I’m not saying I can’t handle something new and totally different from the original god of war games.

....I’m just saying that this game really shouldn’t be called God of War...or at least it shouldn’t have Kratos in it.

Seriously....you’ll be hard pressed to convince me this was ever the original plan for this game.…

Its a great...but its intentionally ludicrous because the entire point is to lampoon and parody sex scenes in action movies.

Videogame sex scenes are basically that scene but done unironically.

The racist part is not calling it a shithole country, its that he wants to keep people from those “shithole countries” from immigrating.

Edit: to be clear, calling it a “shithole country” in any context is still massively insensitive and offensive....just not definitively racist. Its the policy he suggests along with…

Question:

I like Superheroes as much as any other nerd...but more and more these days I’m having trouble reconciling my politics and real world beliefs with the world they inhabit (and no, I don’t accept ‘turn your brain off’ or ‘its just entertainment’ as an argument).

The Punisher is one of the most egregious…

Fair. I mostly know him from the Garth Ennis run, but of course character’s morals often fluctuate somewhat with the writers.

The Punisher is a character I *really* like. The Garth Ennis run is one of my all time favs.

These days....I’m finding it harder and harder to justify the character’s existence.....

He kills people *he* judges to be guilty though. That’s the problem.

Not trying to defend the punisher since in the real world he’d be a morally repugnant monster, but:

I’m not sure this is really accurate. During the Garth Ennis run at least he had a pretty hardcore rule *against* killing cops. There was one instance he even did a shakedown on one who was kind of shady and was abusing…

I don’t dislike The Last Jedi because it killed my childhood. I dislike it because I think the plot is pretty dumb when you think about it.

I don’t hate its characterization of Luke because he died. I hate it because I think it missed the mark on everything up *until* his death scene no who the character is and what he…

Yeah...this is kinda how I feel.

Dont get me wrong: i totally think that this reboot, requel, redo, rehaveyou or whatever they call it is gonna suck something fierce and be nothing remotely close to as good as the original and I don’t think it *should* happen....

...buuuuuuuuuut in the end when it is rebooted and it…

“Look, I know you’re grinding through freshman year right now. It’s a tough time. You want to impress a bunch of people and sound smart while doing it.”

If I could find someone who has competed in esports to argue that esports are sports would that influence your opinion at all?
Of course not, nor should it. Its nothing but an appeal to authority.

Wish I could edit, but seriously, lets flip this argument:

If I could find someone who has competed in esports to argue that esports are sports would that influence your opinion at all?
Of course not, nor should it. Its nothing but an appeal to authority.

“So the opinion of a professional gamer as to what they should be called or what they compete/participate shouldn’t have more weight than people outside of it? That’s a bad opinion and you should feel bad for it.”

Professional gamers don’t have any more universal consensus of opinions on labels and terminology then…

Southpark did it. :)

But kidding aside, yeah, that’s basically my point. People can come up with “x reason” or “y reason” to explain why they don’t consider esports to be sports but when pressed you’ll almost always find these same people’s narrow definitions wind up excluding other popularly accepted sports outside of…