Alison making her “MOIST!” exclamation during Noel’s instructions to the bakers was a laff-out-loud highlight for me. She’s gonna make it after all!

Honestly, this article makes me think that every article being filled with photos of that avatar is another sign of the author having a mental health crisis and trying further to live in a fictional reality. Made me go from mildly annoyed to sad and concerned.

Those heroic scalpers, always looking out for the little guy.

Damn bro.. I mean this in the most honest way possible.. if you connect to characters and even a whole city in a video game more than you do in real life, you should probably find yourself a therapist asap. That is not a healthy headspace to live in. Also, Georgia is on the same side of the country as NYC, nor is it…

I was a few years into my 30's before I was confident enough to go and sit at a bar by myself. In fact, I had met a friend there but he had to leave early, but I didn’t want to leave because I had struck up a conversation with a girl and I wanted to see where it might go. He left, I stayed and I wound up having a…

“What I care about is the fact that “innocent until proven guilty” means nothing to anyone anymore.”

Also, the passive-aggressiveness when everyone leaves the party. I always think, ‘It’s not that serious, I just need a rogue for this one.

Best one on the whole list will be loading up the next person at level up time, selecting the party one by one was so annoying.

So the company making bank with the most successful gaming platform in history short of their own prior product (the Game Boy) is “a wash-out”?

For a few bucks a month, I’ll keep subscribing to Dropout, which manages to produce great content by engaging, clever people and is exceeding union minimums and thus permitted to keep producing during the strikes… and I’ll just read recaps of any notable stuff that ends up on Max.

Pfft. I wish DAO were 1/10th as fun to play as BG3. The combat destroys anything the DA franchise attempted, and that Ultima-derived world interactivity is a hoot.

Yes. And I’m perfectly okay with that. Being evil earns you a shitty, threadbare experience. That’s a position I’m very happy to support. Why should a gamer be rewarded for indulging in evil choices? Unless the game is explicitly a toxic power fantasy with plenty of satirical commentary on said toxicity (arguably the…

It’s “THEIR sophomore project”. Rookie mistake.

Why bother with crime at all? There’s so much junk laying around that you can sell and have plenty of money. By Act 3 I stopped looting non-magical gear and half the vendors in the city were broke while I’m walking around with 40k gold.

...What new model of Russian troll farmer are you? This is fascinating.

this is a nuts take. you’re inserting your own manufactured outrage where it has no business. You’re literally equating being DTF with harassment or worse. That’s absolute nonsense.

Trying not to let the arc of my own professional bias intrude too much here - but I’m willing to say that this is a reflection of the realworld. That republican (lowercase “r”) democracy is intrinsically inefficient, relative to autocracy.

did the same thing with the prequels. with the same character!

Phantom Menace: Sorry, heroes, we’d love to help with your urgent problem, but we’re politicians and bureaucracy just gets in the way. Oops.

Rogue One: Sorry, heroes, we’d love to help with your urgent problem, but we’re politicians and bureaucracy just gets in the way. Oops.

The Force Awakens: Sorry,…

The star wars properties have spent more time trying to explain and retcon their crappy sequels than how long the movies actually were. It is actually a monument to how terrible the sequels are that they have to spend sooo much time explaining basic stuff in those movies now they are over instead of actually doing it…