It also protects you from slander lawsuits and having to actually substantiate your accusations. “Oh, yeah, they’re the worst. The worst. I can’t actually say *why* they’re the worst, but trust me, everybody knows. Know what? Oh, man, if you had to ask what you really should take a long, hard look at yourself in the…

You mean the less *popular*, right? Still the best entry in the franchise, UI issues and all.

Gonna disagree here- it may be his most popular work, but Shore at that point had already built a career of decades, specially as one of David Cronenberg’s most cherished collaborators.

That’s because most of the article is, indeed, “things we already knew”. As in, things that had already surfaced in previous exposés. This one was mostly useful to sum up all we know about the clusterfuck that was the production of this game.

No, they are not. Secondary, at best.

To all those pooh-pooing ME’s mechanics and gameplay: you’re all wrong and you should be ashamed.

You’re right, except not really. Bloodlines is one of the best RPGs ever made, marred by both an overambitious team and really unfortunate events beyond their responsability. Clunky? So fucking what.

If you don’t need it, then why put it?

That’s a lot of words to basically agree with the person you were trying to refute.

Never managed to finish it, always got stuck in the log section of the Hakuna Matata level.

I’d say it’s their main selling point. Gameplay mechanics aren’t exactly Naughty Dog’s forte.

Well, yes. After the wholesale absurd destruction of WWII Europeans realized that technological progress had made the outcome of major conflicts much more unpredictable and difficult to rebuild from than in classic warfare, and thus we lost our taste for it (Proxy wars on very, very far away lands were of course still…

But... this is not even remotely new. I mean, even Empire of the Imagination, which is one of the most hagiographic biographies of Gygax you can find out there, admits that D&D was AT THE BARE MINIMUM c0-created 50/50 by Arneson, and that the ruleset was almost exclusively his.

Because they´re an extremely complex technical product that requires the talents of many people with very specific skills to manufacture.

Funnily enough, I got flak during my teenage years for liking the show and being open about it.

Of course. Everyone chooses to be poor, having children, being born in the right part of the country, having the right parents. Of course.

Wow. So many words just to prove that you´re an ignorant cunt.

I´ll try to keep it simple:

1. Planned Parenthood is suffering a substantial attack in the US right now, which affects negatively the chances of millions of people to get safe, reliable birth control.

2. A substantial amount of the US population (and indeed,…

You´re aware that children are something you don´t always plan for, right? And something you can’t return to store either if your personal circumstances change?

The constant whining every time a From Software title is released (because it’s only with From Software games, other game designers don’t have the unyielding commitment to their own artistic vision that Miyazaki has, and apparently that’s BAD for the game press for some reason) was annoying, but trying to hide…

It will never cease to amaze me how in so many and remarkably significant ways the US is a third world country with an inflated sense of self. Simply astounding.