I’ll certainly be wearing my mask until the experts say it’s safe not to. After that, I might wear one outside to help with allergies, and I’ll definitely wear one any time I get sick so I can help make sure other people don’t get sick. I have the masks, so why the hell not?

lmao literally the majority of the replies to OP are multi-paragraph responses that actually tackle why it’s a problem. that’s not animosity and toxicity.

Honestly, I have no issues with the event having things unlocked at different times. I can definitely see why people would dislike it—if you’re the kind of person to want to get through it all and enjoy it or even just be done, I get it—but at the same time, I appreciate that the game doesn’t dump a ton of content on…

Whether you’re coming at this in good faith or not—and frankly, your posting history over the last few months being largely about “cancel culture” makes it seem like not, regardless of what you say—this is silly.

games were, for the most part, functional.

man I enjoy the game but some of the characters are SO fucking chatty holy shit. I’ve taken to just hitting ESC to go into the menu whenever I need to idle.

Seconding what others have said. If you’re the kind of person to want to get the Very Best Items and such, it could feel grindy and microtransactiony, but the game gives away a decent amount of the premium currency (and they usually add extras for events), and the vast vast vast majority of the game is open and…

of COURSE Gun Girl is now trying to claim that Lil Nas threatened to rape her father. of fucking course. these racist, homophobic shitbags.

I’d heard so many good things about FFXI’s story, but to my understanding, it’s grindy af. I was kind of looking forward to this to see what the story was like, so this kinda sucks.

Eh, in fairness, it’s not like Nintendo is really aiming for parity with Sony and Microsoft’s consoles. The Switch comes across, imo, as another console to have alongside them. It’s less expensive than the PS4 and Xbox One, and I’m guessing any “pro” version of the Switch would still be less expensive than at least…

This would be nice for longevity and for the games that struggle on the platform (like Age of Calamity), I’d think. I haven’t been particularly interested in most of the hardware revisions that have come about (I upgraded my normal 3DS to a New 3DS XL because of the bigger screen and more stable 3D, but didn’t bother…

It definitely looks like it in the opening area, which is why I wasn’t interested in it at first either. The combat’s different, though, and the more of the game you see, the less it’s BOTW-y. Definitely inspired by it, but imo it’s pretty distinct in practice.

It’s baffling they restrict top-ups to where you first did it ever. At least, that’s how it’s always been for me? The few times I’ve purchased things (the battle pass twice, Welkin Moon once), I’ve had to do it on my phone since I originally did it there when I was just dicking around. It’s especially weird since there…

Probably recording, testing to make sure the text works fine (because the code is different than the PS2 version’s, presumably), maybe looking over the loc and making sure they don’t want to adjust anything.

Huh? Literally all we know about it is seeing some movement and the game being said to be an open-world “narrative-driven” game. 

I haven’t finished LiS2—I’m still in the first episode—but I wouldn’t say it’s not character-focused. It seems to me like it’s focusing heavily on developing Alex and Daniel and their relationship, even more than the actual plot at hand. That doesn’t excuse a lack of character work later in the game (since you can…

This looks really good, but I’m a little wary. Before the Storm was a bit of a mess (continuity issues and overall weird story pacing and arcs imo), and the post-credits sequence really put me off the studio. I hope this one is better...

Gaming has helped me a lot during this, and I’m lucky enough that my anxiety and the general stress of the pandemic doesn’t get to me too badly unless I’m in a situation where it’s directly apparent. It’s still all there, though, making everything a bit more tiring and disheartening. Add in the amount of…

I think it’s tough because quite a few of us--like myself--realistically know people would be assholes and give zero shits, but still want/wanted to believe better. Or at the very least, thought that maybe people would listen to the experts during a literal deadly pandemic. Oof.

I think social media has brought unique problems with it, absolutely, including allowing bigoted people and misinformation louder and larger platforms. At the same time, though, I think it can be a really, really useful tool. Even if we restrict it solely to mental health, without social media, I don’t think I would…