So, let me ask a serious and friendly question— and bear in mind that my attitude towards hate-crimes laws is "open-minded and sympathetic, but skeptical", rather than "virulently opposed". In your opinion, what is their main purpose? To prevent people from taking violent action on their racist (etc.) thoughts? To…

Given the tone of the game, it seems the most natural thing to do for like 90% of your opponents. You just have to know that you are aiming for it right away or you are likely to screw it up with the first couple of tutorial fights, like I did. Also, some of the opponents (like a certain extremely fabulous TV…

Ah, Undertale. First time playing?

I agree. I think of myself as very socially liberal (or libertarian, if you prefer) as far as values and such, but the concept of hate speech as a category of crime, and even the idea of hate crimes as a subcategory of violent crime, is a bit difficult for me. It seems to basically say, "The crime you committed was…

I know, right?! I was just checking in dejectedly, as KRZ fans will do every two or three months, and lo and behold the image at the website has changed and the blurb text now says, as laconically as ever, "PLAY THE FIRST FOUR ACTS NOW. REMAINING ACT WILL BE RELEASED THROUGHOUT THE NEXT YEAR OR SO." I poked around and…

Upvoted for "Ashley, ew".

I definitely see your point about Liara. I do like her because she is smart (a scientist!!!) with a mix of scientific and mystical interests that happens to interest me personally (not sure about my character). But there is something about her voice and some of the romance dialogue (e.g., just a minute ago, stuff like…

Ah, yeah I hadn't really thought about that aspect of the Jack relationship. I always felt like she had more "weight" to her as a character than most of the others, but it's true that a romance with ManShep doesn't make a lot of sense (or is even straight-up contradictory) in the context of her story. Probably one of…

Oops, glad I checked— it turns out that Tali is not a romance option in this one! OK, so, now I have to decide between Liara, who is too much of a goody two-shoes, and Ashley, who's a jerk. Can't wait until ME2 comes around and I can try to get with Jack (who, somewhat surprisingly, apparently likes men and so was not…

Actually, no— I was an Engineer the first time and a Vanguard this time. No real problem with fragility so far!

Oh yeah, Invisible Inc.. I got five or six missions into that and was starting to find it fairly interesting, but some other shiny object must have caught my attention. It'll come back to the top of the list someday soon…

Thanks for the thoughts on Inside. It may have just crept up a spot or two higher on my wishlist…

Hmm, the two rogue-like-ish (!) games in the review seem interesting, especially Curious Expedition for some reason. I will have to check these out and possibly add to the wishlist for next time I want to have my ass handed to me hundreds of times in a row as with FTL.

Ughhhh, my kids are both really into Minecraft, which is fine, but then my son (age 7) goes on week-long tangents at times where instead of playing, he just watches videos from these two freaks (a married couple, apparently), and OMG please kill me now.

Yeah, don't it feel good, though?

Yeah, this is the edition I read and it was so much more exciting and rich than the black & white editions (but color over black & white is a big preference of mine anyhow when it comes to comics).

Awesome. As a few others have commented, I have to go back and read this again.

I've done so many hours of gaming in that state, which was fun in its "intense" way but also sort of weird in that I forgot what happened and/or kept screwing up easy stuff because I typically get even more uncoordinated when drunk/stoned, that it was just time to try something new. Well, actually this applies to…

It's OK now. We all make mistakes.

That's great, thanks! And don't tell anyone, but I had no idea who Rosalind Russell was until your example spoiler forced me to look it up!