It’s a game in early fucking alpha, of fucking course it’s a placeholder. It might fit the general size and shape of the character, but they’re probably still working on finalizing the character’s fucking design.

I will always advocate for increased transparency from developers and publishers, but I don’t want to sit here and argue that developers should always be this transparent.

$500,000 prize pool at the event in question, fuck off if you don’t think that’s enough to take seriously.

Anal beads meme aside, this whole situation really is a goddamn mess. It largely seems to come down to a lot of people assuming Niemann cheated because he did do that once in the past online (valid evidence, but teenage edgelords fucking around online is different from doing so in a tournament in-person for money),…

The circumstantial evidence you put there basically comes down to:

Eh, I’m certainly noticing it as a problem.

I’m pretty high on the “geez enough with the constant mourning” stuff, but... yeah, the game being titled “Tears of the Kingdom” is kinda accidentally on the nose, isn’t it?

I imagine their thought process was more along the lines of “This is some of the stuff that the actress we hire is going to have to do in the show, best to break the ice on this early and not make the content of their scenes a surprise”.

As someone that hasn’t really played one of these games since... I think the third Assassin’s Creed 2? I get it. The modern day segments were never the really interesting part of the game, a framing device with really thin characters for the most part...

Translation: The final DLC for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla will serve as a blatant advertisement for the next Assassin’s Creed game, introducing at least one major character and/or plot point, ending halfway through the story to push you to continue on in the next game.

Because there’s other game ideas that fit the Alien universe beyond survival horror?

Yeah, I do get that. I just think that doesn’t work as well with guns as compared to swords and such, ya know?

Strongly disagree on the weapons. Mass Effect 1 only had four guns in it, they just had hundreds of different stat configurations that changed nothing at all about how you played. It was that whole trope about putting on the pants with the better numbers, that’s all you’re doing. It wasn’t until the Remaster that they…

It always strained credulity for me that even if Cerberus had been indoctrinated for years and had near unlimited funding, that they’d still seem to massively outnumber the Systems Alliance.

ME1's Other Best: Sovereign’s Reveal. It really is hard to really fathom this, a decade and a half later, but that brief conversation basically changes everything about the setting. You find out that Saren is just a pawn (well, a Bishop maybe), the Protheans didn’t invent squat, and you’re in so much more trouble than…

I have a feeling that Wong was lying there. That he didn’t literally abduct the Abomination, put him in a cage fight and then return him without Emil having any say in it.

They can always get more badass. Better weapons, actually training in how to use them, it works to keep them low-threat for now because she’s not trying to be a superhero and thus would only be fighting back with minimal comfort with her abilities, but we want the show to stay focused on the lawyer fun for now.

Man, that’s just a dumb stereotype, I have no idea what you’re oh shit work started five minutes ago got to power on my work computer.

Lets not forget how Miranda Keyes and Sergeant Johnson were killed off in some of the dumbest and most pointless ways possible. It’s honestly my least favorite of the Halo games I’ve played (all of the main line besides Halo 5, because I don’t hate myself), just for how badly those characters were executed…

Early Whedon is the former, late Whedon is the latter.