“Every launcher that has come out had growing pains and needed time to improve. Steam was a joke when it launched, and took a long time to mature.”

This particular argument is really flawed.

This is basically like saying “when cell phones were first invented, they were clunky”

If a clunky cell phone using 2000-era tech…

HARD disagree on the music.

It’s so well done, and such a fantastic example of composition fitting the artistic vision and direction of the media it is underscoring that I use it as an example for my students in my Media Scoring class. Every note in the score is meticulously chosen and the silences are every bit as…

Has Rich Juzwiak ever had a take that WASN’T complete garbage?

Is he employed to be Jezebel’s Skip Bayless?  That’s the only explanation I can proffer.

I mean...this is not new for Dragon Quest as a series.

The music in DQ has always been largely influenced by the late-Classical/early-Romantic period which was frankly not an amazing time for musical diversity. Melodically it’s always been extremely safe and harmonically takes basically no risks whatsoever...

...which…

Here’s the thing, though. Participation at the lower levels (high school, etc.) is already on a documented decline as more and more parents simply don’t let their kids play football, funneling them to other sports.

It’s a battle of attrition.  One the NFL will eventually lose.

I think you missed the sarcasm.

I get what you’re saying, but not quite in the same way.

With something like Magic, if there’s a deck build you’re going for and you need specific cards, it is very, very easy to simply buy those cards outright.  It can be a little more pricey depending on the card, yes, but often not much more than a buck or two.

Jesus what is EA paying you to post down here in the greys?

“albeit so far in less overwhelming volume than the review bombs last week.”

White Male Gamers continue to be the worst possible people.  News at 11. 

I live in Dan Crenshaw’s district. It is definitely White People Land, but cut in such a way as to ensure Republican control. There were a LOT of Beto signs in yards last year.

We have a term for this: “editing”.  This is literally what editing is.

Fuck off with your pedantic nonsense.

I don’t think that’s what they meant.

I think they mean this style of map FOR 8-16 bit JRPGs.

The actual city of Houston is pretty liberal.

I 100 percent guarantee this guy lives in Sugar Land, Katy or Clear Lake.

Username definitely checks out with this comment.

I can’t help but feel like these things never work because the audience it’s INTENDING to “de-power” so to speak doesn’t give a fuck and this isn’t going to make them.

I mean, we literally have the statistics on that?

True.

But that doesn’t change the political reality that we lost a strong left-leaning voice in the Senate, and given the currently political make-up of that particular body, we need all of those we can get.

This is where the GOP beats us at politics every time: they will circle the wagons in a way we won’t. We can hem…

But accurate.

It isn’t. In the Flemming novels, he’s a Commander in the Royal Navy, CMDR James Bond.  It’s his real name.

007 is the code name.

The misleading thing here is that she isn’t playing a new Bond, she just took the double-0 code-name when Bond retired.

This is all very weird to me.

Like, if this was, say, a live-action “Brave”...then yeah, I’d see the problem. Merida’s Celtic origin and culture are at the core of the story. You don’t change that.

But Ariel? Yeah sure, it’s based on a Dutch fairy tale but there’s nothing inherently White Dutch about a fucking mermaid.

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