The biggest shame of Mass Effect Andromeda is: It actually is not a bad game. The combat really is the best in the whole series, and the main story is decent. Some of the companion based side quests are really good.

I never beat it. I noped out when Hope whined so hard he tore a hole in time and space and summoned Alexander. In a roster full of boring or annoying characters, he was by far the worst. 20 hours of “I hate my dad! He’s the worst!” and then you meet his dad and he’s just a normal dad who’s worried about his son. Fuck…

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.

I like to imagine getting Liam and Peebee into the airlock together, maybe hinting at some romance, and then flushing them into the nearest sun.

I’ve always held that if it didn’t have “Mass Effect” in front of it in the title, Andromeda would have been a better received game. Yes, it was buggy at release. But that seems to be the case for a lot of games nowadays. And I personally felt its combat mechanics were better than the original three.

Well, Sanderson might be sort of unimpressive, I’m not particularly a fan though I do think he added a much needed jolt of fast paced writing to Robert Jordan’s work, but if there was a contest for biggest tool in Utah going on that day the Wired author would have won it by a fucking country mile. It’s like…

I think the best comparison is to Stephen King: both are prolific writers who put out good quality work that is mainstream in their genre to a dedicated fanbase.

The Wired article is plastered with insults and name calling. Their articles used to be professionally written and had credibility. The article is more on the journalist’s opinion of the writer. I’m sorry, but “blog post” is accurate. There is no standard for how a blog post should be written and it appears the Wired…

The interview is brutal, but it seems completely honest. I've never read any Sanderson so I don't have a horse in this race, but he seems like a pretty boring guy to interview! He also seems very nice, which is a better quality than being interesting to interview. The Wired author may be nice to people they find…

I haven’t read Sanderson and it doesn’t sound like his stuff is my bag, but honestly, even if he’s “boring” there’s enough there that a better writer could’ve gotten a good piece out of it. Instead, it was an incredibly long blog post that shoud’ve been stopped by the editor. Maybe it was the sunk cost or a kill fill…

Jezebel’s insane hatred of this man continues, thankfully no one who isn’t being paid for it agrees

As someone with no real opinion on Sanderson or Wired, I think there is the basic issue of an interview, like all news, is really filtered through the lens of the interviewer. Kehe seems to not like Sanderson much, but saying things like “I never got anything real from him” is pure pontificating that takes away from…

Ah, I know Brandon, he is “GOOD PEOPLE”, celebrity has done nothing to him. The Wired author couldn’t even find dirt on him because Brandon likes his family, his friends and his job and doesn’t have skeletons in his closet, so the article author has to make fun of his family, friends and job, what a tool. 

He’s a fantasy author—of course he’s going to be an awkward dork. Taking that sort of tack with an author profile just seems...unsporting. Nerds have bad fashion sense and can come across as kind of pompous! You don’t say.

“Why is the article so mean-spirited? Why does he hate Hugh Jackman so much that he bursts into tears when hearing him sing? Is this guy okay?”      Not just that, but seeing Sanderson’s 15 year old son salt his Yakisoba makes him CRY. So either

This Wired article wasn’t criticism, it was a hit job. The dude basically hated Sanderson from the get go and in spite of all the evidence that he’s a nice guy decided “hey fuck this guy”

man that article is weirdly brutal. like it really seems like the author had some other stuff going on and vented into their writing.

I like Sanderson’s books, they’re definitely popular because they’re accessible and competently delivered as opposed to dazzling the reader with prose but there’s no shame in being the MCU of fantasy books.

I wonder if the goal for this ending is to have a sort of backstop in case the new Pokemon cast crashes and burns. Like, they’re trying something new, but if that doesn’t work, well, they have the ability to pull the plug and go “Look, everyone, Ash is back with a new season! But older and with new friends and please…

I doubt it.  Lots of Japanese developers license their properties out to Chinese mobile developers as a way to get some easy cash.  We can hope that it’s maybe seed money to push Persona 6 out