There was a time I would’ve said South Park episode

One would hope so, considering how they’ve killed off one of their biggest draws. You don’t do that without an endgame.

Alignment isn’t a constraint. Alignment is merely which of the afterlives is currently calling dibs on your soul after you die. It doesn’t restrict what choices you can make, it just indicates the consequences of those choices. Your alignment can very much change during the course of a campaign as a result of your…

I’m gonna answer your question strangely.

Conan the Barbarian failing to make the list makes this list wrong.

This is io9 so the list is restricted STRICTLY to sci-fi and fantasy.

Perhaps, but even without the card, the only thing this article needed to do was remind us the crunch is a commonplace practice and institutionalised part of the corporate culture at Naughty Dog, and that reminder would still be a worthwhile public service. If tomorrow they run another article that merely says…

Well, for one thing, there are many mad scientist tropes. Mixing animals and humans, or reanimating dead tissue, etc. The choice of “pushing human limits” is almost certainly a joking reference to how hard his team works. I’m not here to tell you whether you should get mad about a dev joking about crunch. But what you…

And suicides go UP when the hardship is economic. It’s been a lean few months; for the most part, the economic consequences haven’t even hit yet.

Of course it will. I’m not suggesting that the “sacrifice your elderly at the altar of the economy” argument is CORRECT, I’m saying that it’s understandable that people might seem to dither as they try to calculate which course of action will prevent more human-scale damage in the long run.

If “we” controlled the economy then the USSR would never have collapsed. If for example China doesn’t want to play ball they can make a lot of things impossible.

It’s worth remembering WHY there’s a conflict between those that want the beaches to stay open and those that want to close them. This COVID-19 crisis is scary and it has a death toll but equally scary with the potential for a higher death toll is the coming economic depression (not just recession but depression).…

It’s the kind of ending I was hoping we’d see based on TLJ. TLJ killed off Snoke by giving Kylo and Rey a RotJ moment, where the Vader saves the Luke from the Emperor’s clutches. The difference being that while Rey was overjoyed about how she redeemed Kylo, Kylo then took one look at Snoke’s throne and did what Vader…

Can I assume that shot is meant to be an homage to Wizard of Oz as Dorothy opens her black-and-white front door and sees a world of technicolor?

I’ve heard that if you don’t interrupt the ceremony, they end up accidentally killing themselves anyway. Of course I wouldn’t know since I always start blastin’.

Sure but RE4 was set in Europe somewhere (I have to assume Spain since the villagers say stuff in Spanish). So slaughtering hordes of human-looking white zombies happened first, to zero complaint.

Let’s be fair, it’s not like the previous games weren’t chock-full of slaughtering vast swathes of white zombies (first in America, then in what I can only assume is Spain? Where WAS RE4 set, anyway?). If the game is set in Africa it would stand to reason the zombies would be African, and it would stand to even more…

It’s a Japanese studio; all white dudes probably look interchangeable

Yes it does. Yes it absolutely does. Everybody makes mistakes. Trying to say butternut squash and instead saying squtter butt nosh is a mistake. Murdering a guilty person and later finding out that they were innocent is “cool motive, still murder”. If you’re cool with murdering people you’ve unilaterally decided are…

Didn’t she step on a landmine? How’s that in any way implied to be Frank’s fault?