I assume that is a gif of people leaving the game....

To me, the combat looked slower paced and more deliberate.  No flailing around or pointless spinning.  It reminded me a lot of Jedi outcast, which is the best compliment I could give it.

Nerds don’t fight. But I hear you.

Well, the big hope is, 1 - not airborne, and 2 - too successful, killing the host before the host can infect others.

Now there is an interesting thought experiment. If Blizzard of yore was owned by the Activision of today and if the current philosophy of not making projects that it deems are unlikely to sell was applied to the Blizzard that made WoW, say in the years before it was released in 2004 when it was in internal…

As a StarCraft fan I’ve always loved the RTSes but get excited for action games in the setting because of how cool it’d be to see everything *to scale*. Just typing that made me go glassy whilst imagining a wraith crashing into an ultralisk from a marine’s-eye view.

I have no idea whether the cancelation is good news or bad news, but it bums me out as a StarCraft fan - what this means is that AFAIK there’s nothing StarCraft-related in development right now. Hopefully the Warcraft 3 remake sells gangbusters and convinces Blizzard that RTS games are worth supporting again.

Or socialized corporate losses. They love those.

Jebus! You don’t have to go that far back in history to hear the same tired cries aginst ‘socialized’ medicine. I remember this from Canadian history, the same old, same old. Disaster!, do you not know how awful this will be? Think of the children and elderly. Doctors fleeing to the US. Financial ruin, oh the humanity!

Yes, I understand that, but what would you suggest that those people do today?

Because Americans, for some god damned reason, believe every single one of us are a Hero In The Making. We are that wild west gunslinger we saw in the movies. We are a comic book character just waiting to show the “bad guy” who is boss with our big guns. The Bad Guys aren’t actual people, the collateral damage aren’t…

No, it’s just wrong. Multiple studies of police involved shootings show that even highly trained people often miss the target and hot innocent bystanders.

As a former teacher, it is beyond my comprehension that a teacher would willingly carry inside the school building. I have adhd and it was a real nightmare just keeping my Adderall under lock and key and sweating that responsibility — cannot imagine how much worse it would be with a firearm. Any method by which it…

I’m OK with a special type of teacher with a lot of training in the use of force, guns and gun safety, can quickly get assistance, and is generally held to a higher standard.

I would call that teacher a “police officer.” 

You’re completely and utterly missing the point. The rarity or frequency of school shootings isn’t the fucking point. The training or eagerness of the teachers to accept the guns isn’t the point. Giving guns to teachers—whether they have training or not—simply opens a fucking Pandora’s Box of new potential tragedies.…

Yeah. Without that activity going on, conversations in my experience wind up like that Friends episode with Ross and Paul Rudd sitting around with nothing to talk about.

Fantastic work, Cecilia. I struggle with anxiety and depression, while thinking if I push people away and not interact with them my problems go away. They don’t, and it is terrible path to follow.

Yes of course! But they can't wait until we overhaul the entire structure of the American economy to pay the rent and feed themselves. 

Well, some people may need it in a pinch, though. The rules pertaining to hurting someone’s credit score because of whatever minor transgression they may have committed need to be changed, and not be so punitive, that these people can’t even open a simple fucking bank account.

It’d be nice to see people have the same level of outrage towards Trump and his actions that they were able to muster about the last season of Game of Thrones.