I don’t know if this is the kind of advice you’re looking for, but here’s what I do:

Oh, this is pretty darn exciting! It looks beautiful! Count me all in on this mod.

Just keep an eye on Play Asia! There’s at least a 99.9% chance this game will get a general “Asia” release for China and east-Asia countries, which means that, at a minimum, we’ll have Japanese with English subtitles. I know I’m gonna be checking the front page of the store every single day for this.

I had no idea these things exist. They’re super cute! How can something somehow be both sci-fi/futuristic looking and old school. Now I kind of want one, too.

This is friggin’ fantastic and it makes so much sense. Tifa is pretty much made to be a crossover character. She just fits so much better in a fighting game.

Absolutely, here you go, my good man. I have to put it in actual quotes since I can’t get the Kinja quote thing to work:

I suppose we read two different books then, because the relationship between the characters was not a glowing representation of a healthy relationship between a husband and wife.

They might not want to admit it, but in their hearts they know they’re douches. They know.

Frankly, not much? Certainly he created the character and he has a specific way in which he thinks of his own character, but as consumers we also have our opinion of what we think that particular piece of art means. If we think he’s hella wrong, then he’s hella wrong. Full stop.

There was a guy who used to be a co-worker of mine who would say some really, uh... off-color things, pause for dramatic effect, then say “Redacted!” His “joke” was that saying “Redacted!” made everything he said before it okay. It was exactly as charming and hilarious as you’d expect (i.e. not at all). His favorite…

Before I read the article, I thought the same thing, too. I thought this was gonna be an article about cultural appropriation or the hat getting named with an offensive slur for Mexicans or something.

Agreed. The game is simply unplayable if I don’t get to hear the pure sex that is Zhongli’s gravelly EN voice. I could listen to him read the back of a damn cereal box.

Hello, fellow fan! Were you doing the blue-colored leylines on the map? You can get up to 50 purple exp scrolls a day if you dump all 160 naturally accumulated resin into it. Also, there’s an upcoming event that’ll double the scroll drops when you do the leylines during the event timeframe. You should definitely hop…

The easiest way to understand this is to simply watch any of the comparison videos. Barbara was my main healer and I loved her voice. She was cheerful, peppy, like a pop star cheerleader. The change Mihoyo made was just... bewildering, frankly. No one was asking for this, yet here we are.

This seems a bit... sketch. What would the work-around be? Could an exception be something like a similar system, but all the “orcs” aren’t randomly generated and all have scripted names/identities? Is it the “promotion” aspect where an orc takes a fallen general’s place or perhaps the vengeance aspect? Or is it the…

I was surprised too, and now I’m struggling to think of what I could possibly want glue spray for. That seems like an absolute disaster waiting to happen, not even counting the whole hair debacle.

I hadn’t thought of it like that before, but now I am and it makes it so much worse somehow.

Welp, I’m glad I hadn’t downloaded the mod yet. Questionable content like that is not something I want to be stumbling across while my nieces and nephews watch me play...

Same! Was gonna ask where this fantastical 12 room house for $300K is located, because my line of work is one that can easily pick up and move for that steal!

Holy heck, you’re right. I was trying to figure out exactly what this feeling was as I read about this (and 100% understand none of it), and it’s that same feeling I get when I read those articles on EVE wars. I don’t understand what’s going on, but I totally dig it, and I love seeing it play out.