God I resented this game so much as a 12 year old. They played me like a damn fiddle!
Great write up though! I realised, years after foregoing the chance to play anything up until the Phantom Pain was because of 2. Even though I’d learned to appreciate it during that time, I’d forgotten it was the cause of my…

And yet, I’m here to say that I think it’s Actually The Best One.

Sounds a lot like a.... Pyramidion scheme to me.

Probably none. Unless there’s a Pokemon region that’s culturally obsessed with the idea of Pokemon as a tool for exerting power, has very poor healthcare and education on mental health, as well as a history of being bigoted towards specific demographics in the past, to the point that the gradual equality that…

I was really surprised when Bernadetta started talking about the abuse she received during her childhood (and the incident with her father tying her to a chair for hours is only one example, there are others). What fascinated me was that you usually don’t see an example of abuse in a video game that’s this realistic.

I haven’t played the game yet, but damn if it doesn’t resonate. One of my greatest struggles is feeling “good enough” for anyone or anything. People tell me I apologize too much. But I spent my youth and too damn long later in an abusive marriage being told regularly what a failure I was and that I wouldn’t be good…

This is why anytime I find a good rip of the game on youtube, I run it through yt-download. I don’t expect that stuff to stay up, but there’s also no legal way for me to purchase most Nintendo soundtracks, especially the older stuff. It’s a bit of a shame really; I’ve already bought the games, and I *would* buy the…

“but dads have become a culturally acceptable target for gentle mockery and loving parody”

This has been an issue to varying degrees from edition to edition. Like, it’s a major part of the edition-feel, how massively powerful your character is expected to be in comparison to the hoi polloi. Second edition, for instance, made you a lot more fragile and it was a lot easier to have a build that was basically…

My whole thought throughout this post was “This is nothing new to D&D. People roll Chaotic-Stupid characters every day. And eventually, the other players get frustrated and quit, or the rogue ends up killing them.”

Yeah, I admit I got a bit of a twitchy eye when reading about the character - if everybody loves that tone, great, that’s fine, but if the rest is going for a more serious adventure, please don’t. I’ve met way too many Malkavians/Kender/Gnomes who just had to insult the powerful NPC, “accidentally” drop something…

I would have made a CHA rouge, used the standard array but put the high numbers in CHA and CON, making him mediocre or bad in the skills he needs like DEX and INT. Then put all skill proficiencies in lore skills like history.

“cuck beta leftists.” I swear to god, you could not sound more desperate to seem cool as right-wing edgelords do when they string these words together.

Im catholic, and one of the first things tha was made clear to me in my family catholic upbringing was that Jesus was jewish born and raised, and that he also shows up in other religions as a prophet or religious figure.

I guess 'different strokes' and all that, because my response to that comic was "Corpse Run, tell me a better joke". 

So I’ve been championing my own solution: Pokemon Home as a one-stop for post-game care and competitive content.

Same question, same reaction. I think the ambiguity of that last panel is probably intentional.

...or maybe we all just have really filthy minds.

I know which one I picked. ♥

Kneel before Naga!

To be honest, as a person of color, this is exactly why I play these games. Where else can I run into battle wearing the colors of the “African Flag” as a coat of arms to lay waist to such a high concentration of said incels and racist white supremacist assholes?