Those emotional and spiritual changes are quantifiable, and they have a name: placebo effect.

I honestly wasn’t serious about sprites, for exactly the reasons you stated. It’s just not realistic given current tech and economic realities.

Or! Or! The success of their games with monsters, horror and demons will lead them to: new Darkstalkers confirmed! Can’t wait to see that on an Evo stage my dudes!

As a fighting game I think SF5 is solid enough, I prefer it mechanically over 4, but I’m old and bad at games so...

“How dumbass are you if you are" a herb who ruined a great site about bad cereal rankings.

Zombie Deadspin deserves such an ignominious end.

Deadspin forever.

I’d like to compliment the headline/lead image synergy here.  I couldn’t possibly not click on this.

As a widely reviled SJW, I can confirm that gender reveals are ridiculous and dumb regardless of social justice context.

You know, I hadn’t even thought of that comparison, honestly, but it’s absolutely valid. I was already pissed off to see people advocating for double standards for YouTubers, but this is absolutely fucking on point. People are always worried about what will happen to the weeping white boy, whether it’s because he…

I think her position is weak, though. She refused to vote for a resolution that was simultaneously a repudiation of Trump and an increasingly authoritarian Turkey, as well as a historic acknowledgement of a genocide.  Those three things are all worth doing, and saying "but what about all the crimes we did?" doesn't…

I think Shayna Baszler is way more than “Rhonda Rousey’s friend,” given that she was in NXT before Rousey made her debut, and I’d argue she’s a much better pro wrestler.

Well if you're interested in Stellaris or EU4 send me a message on Steam, I go by the same screen name there.  I can't promise to teach you the best way to play, but I can at least get you in.

Because, and I cannot stress this enough, the Muscovites are barbarian scum. There will come a day when Brandenburg’s might eclipses theirs, and on that day there will be a reckoning.

I do.  Do people think sweet corn needs to be cooked?  Like, if you want it warm for butter slathering purposes, or grilled for charring, go at it, but it doesn't require cooking to be perfectly edible.

Based on what I heard directly from a pair of devs and what the lead said on stage, I doubt it. They seemed pretty definitive about the map outside of Europe being playable from the jump. They specifically mentioned govt types that would be assigned to some eastern tags. That said, obviously things can change.

I’m here at PDXCON and talking to the CK3 guys they are aware of this concern. I mentioned below that the map is actually slightly expanded from the current CK2 map. They have been talking a lot about doing some “addition by subtraction” in terms of losing some of the less well-loved additions, but also expanding on…

Yeah, not an unreasonable concern.  That said, I'm here at PDXCON and from a map size perspective they've indicated it'll start at the same extent as CKII, if not slightly larger.

They really do fall into the “hard to learn, impossible to master” category don’t they? Like I have a lot of hours in EU4, but I still don't fully understand the best way to approach combat, or trade for that matter.

I totally understand where you are coming from on this. I’ve spent years on various Total Wars and Civs, etc. and it did shockingly little to prepare me for the experience of EU4 or Stellaris. Adding to the issue is the fact that the various titles really don’t play the same.