Technically metal gear timeline is (brackets denoting alternate timelines/questionable state of canon):

3 - [PO] - PW - 5 - MG1 - MG2 - 1 - [GB] - 2 - 4 - R:R

I use a mac, but it’s a 2010 model I got from ebay for like $250. I would NEVER buy ANY new Apple products (and really wouldn’t buy anything that ran iOS), but I just straight up find OSX to be a much better-designed OS to use on a day-to-day basis for simple stuff than Windows.

But yeah, the only time you should ever…

I can assure you: The vast majority of Japanese people would get REALLLLLY angry at you for referring to sexualized children and teenagers as a part of their culture.

Well, I’m sure you know the partyline response to that. The response would be that Captain America is a male power fantasy while Black Widow is designed for sex appeal to male viewers/readers. I’ve got somewhat mixed feelings about that though.

I have two primary reactions to that belief. I would first say that,…

I didn’t mean to imply that sexuality is a complete no-go. I mean this stuff isn’t black and white, and we're not talking about pruitanical values here either. Only that there is very often a dichotomy between the sexuality on-display.

You bring up a good point about the idolization of both sexes, though, and it’s…

But I literally just said that it ISN’T being censored. There’s no censorship. Apple has a policy and it decided the game is against its policy. It’s disappointing to me that it won’t be allowed, but I’m not crying censorship. Apple has every right to make that decision.

What exactly do you mean by NPCs changing outcomes? Cause from what little I played, all the NPC interaction seemed VERY surface level. People calling police and what have you. What did you experience?

Well, see, when it comes to something, like, say, Dead or Alive XXX, I’d agree with you in that people SHOULD just walk away if they don’t like it (although in the case of that particular game, the devlopers were just being a buncha pussies not bringing it over). But when it comes to games that are not just fetish or…

EDIT: Whoops, doublepost.

The issues are two completely different things and people react to them on completely seperate grounds. If someone made an educational game with an anime art style based on the idea of teaching sexual education and learning about the female reproductive system, people would be a lot less likely to decry it as…

I mean, not going to lie, it’s a nice idea, but the way to configure it can only be accessed through Big Picture mode, and it is NOT laid out in an easy-to-understand way. I get that it might work for some people, particularly people with a programming background and plenty of free time on their hands, but it…

The ONE video game I legitimately wanted it to work with was Deadly Premonition, and that ended up not working with it.

Deadly Premonition is a spiteful beast. So full of wonder and beauty, and yet so dead-set on having critical game-hurting flaws in each subsequent version released.

I mean jeeze, I'd love to but I work full-time, and the second I sit down and spend an hour configuring a controller just so I can play a game on my TV instead of on my PC Monitor, I just start getting anxiety about how there's got to be better things to do with my time.

Well, it stands to reason that once that's done, the BIGGEST issue preventing the PC from getting proper controller support— the User Interface, will have assets that can be used. I'm not assuming that Firaxis themselves will make an update (although I wouldn't count that out), only that some clever modder will…

More importantly: I’ll soon be able to play the game on my PC using a gamepad.

And get the fuck outta here with your steam controller. The damn thing only works half the time and I need to set aside half a day to properly configure its myriad of settings.

I certainly don't think that progressive ideals offer the path of least resistence! Maybe if you live in a heavily liberal or open society, but certainly not in my experience!

I mean look dude, I’m not telling you that you’re wrong about there being problems within the “progressive” community. But without knowing anything about you, you’re kinda coming across as overtly angry about all this.

There’s a lot of in-fighting and disagreement about topics within the so-called “progressive…

Your comment makes me suspicious because while the co-opting of progressive community groups is cause for concern I can’t help but feel like your solution is going to be to just ignore progressive ideals. Forgive me if that’s not what you’re saying, it just often seems to be what accompanies those statements.

What do…

Jeeze. Well you seem to be understanding my dilemma but framing it as though I’m a bad person for bringing it up to begin with. Don’t strawman me. I’m aware that they have a good track record with LGBTQA issues. But they also have an utterly rancid track record with customer service and their treatment of consumers.…

Whelp, someone call David Young. I found D.