Parts of Yemen?

Simulated actual gambling sounds like it would affect Dragon Quest, for example, since those games all have casinos. I doubt Australia has a large enough market for Square Enix to do the extensive work to strip it out, so if this goes through, I guess the kids won’t be able to play it.

Hope is the absolute worst. He spends the first half of the game whining alternatively about his dad (who is exactly as you describe) and Snow, who admittedly sucks, but, buddy, your mom has agency. I know there’s no time to get therapy, but maybe we shouldn’t be dragging this kid along.

I’ve been replaying FFXIII and it does stink in pretty much every way. The combat system was an interesting idea, but it doesn’t really have enough flexibility to be all that good.

That doesn’t sound as bad as taking on say, the CEO of Yuta Labs, like the article made it sound like.

That was a really reductive way of describing Dentsu. I’m not exactly optimistic or anything, but Dentsu is Japan’s mammoth ad/digital agency. Metaverse is a tiny sliver of the things they do. I don’t know much about this specific person, but I wouldn’t assume that hiring them inherently involves a doubling down on…

A persistent problem for practitioners of Regex.

Well put, and a more charitable description of Jimmy than I would have given.

I feel you. EVERY Japanese fighting game, including Street Fighter, KoF, and Tekken (honestly maybe the least gross? they kinda sexualize that bear though) have embarrassing ogling character designs for most of the female cast. Dead or Alive is way past what I can tolerate.

(Preface: Jordan Peterson completely sucks and is a right wing weirdo even if he won’t admit it.)

I wish they’d just go ahead and rename the company Shinra already. 

It’s amusing that the use case the pushers most often use is get one NFT and use its cosmetic or weapon across games. This is a piece of functionality I’d be fine with, but it’s not like something I’ve been clamoring for.

Thanks for the clarification. Made me feel gross, which I how I could tell it was solid additional information.

I literally paid the $30 because of the insane amount of fun I had playing this game almost exclusively for a couple of years around 2010. And now I’m sucked back in.

I guess we could think about what editorial looks like on a site that has been absolutely gutted by its ownership. 

Online discourse has been weird around this one. I’ve seen way more blame for Panda than Nintendo, and I don’t get it. Panda has (in my opinion) clearly acted shitty here, but the primary culprit has been Nintendo who just strung along SWT, ghosted them and then ditched them entirely.

They had better be rock solid and prevent your car from accessing the manufacturers’ servers.

Just the fact that they need to partner with NetEase (or some other local company in the future) will take a big chunk out of the revenue. They perform services that Blizzard would struggle to build out for themselves or perhaps be completely unable to, such as liaising with the Chinese government (who have become…

Fair enough, although I’d say it’s much larger chunks of the games that ended up gross and misogynistic than just individual lines, and someone had to go through all of them. And that person/people didn’t think it was worth running up the chain, lacked the mechanism to do so, did so and were ignored or simply didn’t…

I mean games do have directors who have control over what ends up going gold. The director could have asked for rewrites and didn’t, which is a bit of a problem. Part of it can probably be attributed to the production style of the Yakuza games (built rather quickly and cheaply for such sprawling games), but the fact…