“You QTE into blocking Sephiroth’s attack, the game shows his sword miss her, then it’s like “but actually, multiverse,” then blood starts appearing from a wound that doesn’t exist.”

This is were discourse around basketball - and all sports that have exposed advanced statistics and analytics - is kind of breaking down a bit.

That’s a great story about a great man. But the end of Lutheran is no surprise to me. I won’t speak for cultures I have little experience in, but certainly it seems in Western culture - NZ myself, family in UK, and so many stories from the USA - we give so much help to those that don’t need it and absolutely none to…

I’ve never read anything from Gladwell, I was only aware of his name and the gist of the ‘10000 hours’ theory or whatever bullshit that is. All it took was the paragraph about Ziegler, and your question and his response for me to come to the same conclusion you end up with: the guy is a charlatan. Smart, but not an…

Yes. Every criminal needs help. Consequences too when appropriate, of course. But help for the sake of rehabilitation, trying to prevent future crime and reducing the critical mass of people stuck in shitty situations that make crime seem appealing, or necessary, or worst of all normalized.

Live aren’t good, but they’re sincere which is by far more important. I find them most enjoyable with the songs that you can’t possibly over-do, like Lightning Crashes and Dolphins Cry; no matter how over the top you go, you are not as in to it as the guy is in the actual songs.

The really weird part is that it *is* a phenomenon, despite absolutely being an anthology of cautionary tales. For me it’s by far the most useful game I can think of in terms of learning game design; some of what to do, but a hell of a lot of what not to do.

This comment chain is very accurate. I started with the PC version but the warning my previously console playing friend gave me, even as he dragged me in, was that it was a game of incredible potential that could never reach it.

I feel similarly, although I don’t stop playing entirely unless a game has particularly pissed me off. I just find myself increasingly frustrated at games; the more I play, the more most of them just feel the same.

I did beat that boss, on the hardest difficulty no less, but yeah. It was totally full of shit. To be honest, most of that game is, on Death March, but doing shit like that for the sake of it is a common gamer trait I guess.

i can't imagine how it would work if not

Francis was one of the ones I liked, when I visited Barstool. His shtick was being utterly tone-deaf , and a huge try-hard, desperate for approval (no doubt something welcomed by Portnoy and the rest). He can write well, but being so intentionally obtuse was gonna produce something lile this eventually, and obviously…

I want to agree with you. I think too often people are tarred and feathered for life, and it’s only gotten worse with the internet. If the justice system does not actually produce justice, such that most people ignore the process and don’t simply remember but also refuse to forgive, then what’s the point of that…

It’s sad that he can’t turn off, if he ever could. I can find his not tough guy acting like an excessively tough guy shtick entertaining, when it’s about things that not fundamentally meaningful or personal, like sports. But there’s nothing tough or manly about not being able to apologize when you’ve been a cunt,…

From this article: “Initially, police charged 23-year-old Ebony Jemison”. Spin perhaps that they say “a police investigation determined that it wasn’t Jemison who was to blame”, since according to AL “the charge against Jemison was dismissed after the grand jury failed to indict her”. But then, honestly, which is…

It’s a game I love, and love to criticize, this comic bringing up one of the biggest flaws. Absurd amounts of loot in that game when basically none of it is relevant; all to be sold or dismantled in to more cash and resources than you can use.

I’ve just started playing Arena. I’ve never played MtG properly before, but do have a small collection of 15+ year old cards hiding somewhere, and I’ve enjoyed reading about the game the last few years (particularly Maro’s articles on design) so I’m not entirely new to it.

Yeah, that was out of place in this article. Guy might well be a dick, but it sounds like he made it clear what was gonna happen. Some players need to break thd habit of defaulting to dig technique only, and theres only one way to do it.

Left my job back in December, because I wasn’t happy living where I was anyway, but I was not happy in work either precisely because of that. Taking two days to do something I’d end up doing in half an hour, just to keep the perception alive that I was busy, felt like shit. But motivation was gone. You gotta do…

I, like so many other people who have been playing primarily on PC for the last decade plus, am heavily invested in Steam. So, it’s running all the time, doing updates, being there ready to launch games. Fine.