It does expand a little bit beyond the starting zones, but each of the "mains" zones are probably about 1/5 the size of Skyrim. It makes for a decent sized game overall, but it ends up straining believably to some extent.

Unfortunately Bethesda games seem to have permanently lost their magic for me, and try as I might I can't get it back. I've been with the ES series since Daggerfall came out, but by Fallout 4 I was just utterly burned out on the formula. I don't know if it's the consistently poor writing and characters or the fact…

I felt like the game ended up "shrinking" the Elder Scrolls world to some degree. I know games can't (and probably shouldn't) represent real life sized environments, but to see the Daggerfall region, in the lore made up of dozens of squabbling kingdoms, reduced to one small city and a few surrounding forests made the…

In this case, yes. Though I think it's more a situation where the two leads are so good that they make a big-budget musical film about a well-trod romance between an actress and a musician into a hot commodity through sheer charm.

The gospel example is interesting, since the gospels are full of stories of women inherently "getting" Jesus while his male followers blunder around asking dumb questions. It's sexist that the disciples don't believe Mary Magdalene, sure, but the men are definitely the ones being mocked as morons in the story.

Coming from someone who had to put up with Louis XV, those are damning words indeed.

Well, if we know anything about Trump, it's that he will accept that he lost the election and feel bad about it, not spend the rest of his life claiming he's the real president and inciting mobs who feel the same.

Yeah, he more or less did say exactly that, and here we are.

The "lol" really takes it to the next level.

I keep trying to convince myself that some of the people making bizarre excuses for Trump's sexual assault comments just can't stand losing and will say anything to avoid admitting they've backed a disaster, but sadly the Venn diagram for "Trump supporters" and "sexual assault supporters" is probably just a circle.

There seems to be a lot of doubling-down on misogyny and racism and so forth in the last few years. We're starting to see the results of decades of talk radio and TV using every type of nonsense rhetoric imaginable to convince people that straight white males are under siege, and I think we're starting to see the…

Not to get mired in Biblical nonsense, but there's nothing in the Bible itself linking Adam and "original sin" to Jesus. That whole narrative was created by Saint Augustine and other church fathers to help unify the text. It has since become fairly mainstream Christian thought, but it's by no means the only…

This sounds like the pitch for a sensational one act play.

I sort of hope his entire belief system turns out to be true but he ends up going to Jack Chick hell on some shellfish-related technicality anyway.

I would pay to see an original Sophia Hapgood adventure on the big screen.

Becoming Lando Calrissian is the lifelong dream of every single human male I've ever met; couldn't have happened to a better person.

So pretty much everything I ever want to accomplish with my life needs to be wrapped up by this time next year.

I had the Radiant AI thought as well, especially when they were talking about disrupting the narrative. However I've always viewed the Bethesda "Radiant AI was TOO good!" story as an after-the-fact excuse once they realized they had marketed a level of AI on Oblivion they couldn't possibly deliver.

James Marsden did end up with Liz Lemon, so it still comes out to a net win for him.

Yeah, I'm confused that the article points out several times that these guys are somehow inferior to the AHS cast.