Eh, we’ve seen cops fake shit before, so it really wouldn’t be surprising. We’ve also seen people fake incidents like this regardless of police affiliation.

because it’s funny that cops overreact so so so much lmao

Sadly, the accounts of it being blocked by the profanity filter aren’t true.

As a multiplatform gamer, I use it for Nintendo-exclusive games (Cadence of Hyrule; Mario Odyssey; Smash Bros; Breath of the Wild; The World Ends With You), but also for indie games and smaller releases (AI: The Somnium Files; Final Fantasy VIII Remastered; Untitled Goose Game) so I can take it with me if I’m going…

To be fair, the game does hint at GF memory loss before the big plot twist; Selphie’s diary on the Balamb Garden computers updates before the Timber mission:

It wasn’t an intended ending; it was an alternate universe-type thing that would have featured the kind of ending that Noct and Luna were working toward instead of the hand fate dealt them.

God, Lunafreya deserved so, so much more than she got.

FFXV had so many things going for it, but man, it was so clearly rushed that it’s a shame. Not unfinished—the game has a clearly defined beginning, middle, and end, and it’s not like Xenogears where the entire second half of the game was simply stated instead of shown—but certainly rushed. Other than Ardyn and the…

lol dude it didn’t take much time for me at all, and almost no effort; it was all literally the first things that came to mind. I’m not trying to ~rationalize GameFreak’s statements~; I’m trying to see how much of all the hubbub is hyperbole and how much is misleading by the developers, and your condescending tone…

They literally talked in multiple interviews about the games being aimed at children and new gamers, my dude. The game is literally about 10-year-olds traveling the world. Their business site even mentions it being a pillar for the children of the future. The Switch itself having a marketing campaign with young adults…

Most of the interviews I can find don’t mention remaking every single model. This says that they’re creating the game in general with higher fidelity and higher quality animations as a whole, but not “every single thing is completely redone,” especially considering they immediately mention that the battle system was…

They’re not so dissimilar that the situation would *completely* change, though. They said that in QA, it’s entirely possible that this popped up later in development after it was already tested, that something small was tweaked and changed the level geometry or physics ever-so-slightly and its effect in this specific…

Exactly. There’s a reason even the most polished games will randomly freeze, or why one player can get a bug somewhere nobody else has.

It’s not “pretend,” though. The games are literally aimed at children. They’re games for children.

To be fair, there’s a balancing act to be had: the franchise isn’t for returning fans, it’s for children. Game Freak puts in things for fans, most definitely, but the primary audience for the series is children, and they wouldn’t want to overwhelm newcomers. (That doesn’t mean the games are above critique, far from…

Ooh, is there a comparison of textures out there? I’ve stayed largely away from trying to find proof of what people are talking about because a lot of the comparisons have been stretched screenshots or just the wireframes or people making clickbait titles.

Real talk, though: if the designs of the Pokemon are the same, why does it matter if the wireframes were reused? There’s more to models than just wireframes; if the textures were redone, that’s still a lot of work. Considering assets are usually done at higher resolutions before downscaling them to fit on any given…

tbf, they didn’t say they weren’t reusing models; they said that part of why the national dex was smaller was focusing on newer models and animations. that doesn’t mean “every model is being made from scratch”

ughhh hard disagree tbh. probably totally subjective, but I find Kirkland Gin pleasantly light and floral and fruity, with Bombay being a lot more harsh and perfumed. (Hendricks and The Botanist beat ‘em both if you have the money imo, but Kirkland for that price is my go-to haha)

I’ve literally just been farming Beef Fat on my server idly while I’ve been working, and that’s without even getting to the area itself. Thank fuck.