I don’t KNOW I won’t like it. I suspect that I might not, but won’t know until I play it. And sometimes things look unappealing on the surface but turn out to subvert that impression substantially. I didn’t think I liked fantasy much until I played Witcher 3, which is now my favorite game. And I played it because I…

you know, city of heroes died, this went down, champions online is kind of on life support. how do video games, which are power fantasies, have 50 versions of normal guy with a gun and no major AAA super hero series. and yes i know the batman brawlers and infamous, but that seemed to be a very focused superhero game…

That one really hit home for me. I work in a retail store, and it was a few years ago that they started putting in an aisle or two of Christmas stuff the same time as the Halloween. In August. As soon as November 1 comes, it’ll be all Christmas.

Hm...that shouldn’t be bending that way. That REALLY shouldn’t be bending that way. OH GOD WHY ARE THEY BENDING IN THOSE WAYS

Also of note regarding Battlegrounds’ accessibility: it requires a lot more knowledge of military weaponry, and the UI is ugly, unintuitive, and just about as unoptimized as the rest of the game. (I’m still amazed the game’s main menu is just a glorified web browser running on an HTML backend.)

...every post you make, every text you send, I’ll be watching you...

Buy me the game. That way you get the best of both worlds. You get to indulge and snap it up on release but I’ll be the hero by subjecting myself to any glitches and the lack of extra content.

B-b-b-but it was just a “heated gaming moment.”

Donate to relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey and you can get a Destiny 2 emblem as well as a pin from Bungie. More details right here.

Counterpoint to all the “kids are toxic jerks” comments:

I once had a 13 year old, English-speaking Korean girl (as in currently living in South Korea) act as my guide in Borderlands 2 when I was too wracked with social anxiety to turn my mic on and ask for help. She talked non-stop about herself, her family and game…

You heard em everyone. Nobody gets to make the games they want to make anymore, you only get to make games that Lozzle wants to play. No, nevermind the fact that Lozzle is one person out of millions of people who play games, and forget about the fact that there are hundreds, if not thousands of games outside this…

How about someone punch him in the dick?

A lot of commenters have suggested that in previous articles. A thick skin is necessary for online gaming, don’t get me wrong, but these commenters fail to understand that harassment in games is a reflection of a real-life culture that pays women less in the workplace, resists healthcare coverage of birth control (but…

Protip: if you have ever written or said the following phrases or something similar in regards to online harassment:

I once witnessed 2 bros drunkenly mocking gay people at a brewery in Seattle. I mean, if you hate homosexuals, Seattle is not the city for you...

“God, I hate racists and bigots and other people who make broad generalizations about whole groups of people.”