There’s a little satisfaction to be had from clearing the map that way, but for me it did not do nearly enough to cancel out the sense that this was a massive, boring waste of time.

Sure but you have to *know* about it to fix it. Not everybody spends their time reading about video games; some just have enough time to play them a little bit.

And if there’s one option that’s objectively better, the game should ship with that turned on by default.

Orrrrr make your graphical assets able to be rendered on a majority of machines with discrete graphics and then not be able to “turn up” anything from there.

from what i’ve seen people can also get hypercritical if they know you have any sort of condition that causes you to be different and they want to help you “fix” it. That example of “Don’t ask ‘How are you?’ if you don’t want an honest answer” — I’m assuming someone told you you shouldn’t answer that honestly? I…

Getting involved with an esports scene for a game is not inherently in the definition of “supporting” a game. You say it like it’s something companies ought to be obligated to do. Companies do it because it makes them money; if it didn’t, they wouldn’t. And Nintendo has chosen to say no to this money, like they often…

Is there any good reason to get it through kickstarter if you’re purchasing in the next week?

Yes. Wearing a headdress when you haven’t earned one, for example, is culturally equivalent to wearing a Purple Heart when you haven’t earned one. The problem is most people are ignorant about what this means, and so they just take something that looks cool and wear it around without any regard for its cultural…

Genji got wrecked by his brother Hanzo. Blackwatch/Mercy “saved” him by giving him the robot body, presumably because the rest of him was basically dead

But it’d be weird if Pharah was the only one doing that. What if there was a Soldier:76 skin that made him black?

Hahaha Reinhardt out of armor wouldn’t make any sense. Like if you try to imagine his body inside of that thing, based on his head size, he’s muuuuch smaller than that suit of armor (and so the joint locations also don’t make sense because they wouldn’t match up with his joints...)

I was also grossed out by the ability to date your teacher. Normally a 17 and a 15-year-old would probably be okay dating but like... Futaba is *just* learning to be in the world again and she’s incredibly dependent on you and vulnerable. It’s just a bad idea, she should learn to be on her own and be independent and…

No, that’s her lower lip. They exaggerated it, I think they were going for a “flirty” look which... no.

Yeah I was put off by that as well. They look super pouty and glossed up, doesn’t fit Futaba at all.

Cecilia, thank you so much. I’ve been wanting to say these words so much and it means so much to me that you said them to Jeff Kaplan and wrote them. You are great and doing good work. <3

What if all characters in video games were black

The difference between the devs and the fans doing it *is* actually the difference.

I mean, Nintendo wants families with tiny children comfortable buying their games. It shouldn’t be a shock that Nintendo doesn’t want the European equivalent of flipping the bird in one of their most family-friendly franchises.

The thing is they’d do just fine if they *also* released printed cards or even downloadable codes for self-loading onto devices, or offered these things as Paid DLC where the amiibo is optional, but I’d guess that feels a little too obviously pay-to-win to them. But either way, there are ways to meet demand that don’t…

The data could very well be copyright, copyright law when it comes to software is fucking asinine

But just in case you didn’t catch the super obvious hint he could hear Morgana, the game tells you FOUR TIMES at the end with increasing specificity each time. “Oh hey, maybe there was something suspicious about this exchange...” “Oh hey, remember that time Akechi mentioned pancakes...?” “Hey, did you notice Akechi…