I'll have to talk to my family about that too— my dad still teaches at RIT and my brother is there as a student….

I love the comparison to a new show that's trying to fill out its season. That really hits the nail on the head.

I went straight from an original-trilogy playthrough to ME:A as well. It's quite a transition. And probably not in a way that reflects well on ME:A, especially at first.

Well, I've definitely had a few crashes. And I do have a tendency to get killed a lot, so I definitely feel the pain of the crappy autosave system. (The huge load times don't help either.) Maybe the game is technically OK enough to hold together on a better rig than what I've got, but when it has to work a bit to fit…

"All sort of landing on top of one another", yes! There's too much stuff coming down all at once, and it can be hard to decide what's going to be important or interesting.

Unlike Gerardi, I've been playing as many of the side missions as I can get my hands on (and there are a lot)… and although I like the fact that this has been making me much better at the new, largely pause-free combat system (which I love), and improving my general familiarity with the world, it really is a lot of…

Portal is a big deal too. But yeah, not a lot to argue with on the list as a whole, especially the 6 you mention.

Fortunately for them, nobody really cares about the Strong Museum of Play's list of classic video games. But yeah, if #gamergate assholes ever get yet another bug up their collective butt about their choices, it's all over.

Awesome. Rochester is so off the map for most people, but there's actually a lot going on there.

The drug scene in Western NY is pretty mediocre, it's probably a 1.2x height multiplier at most.

A fellow Rochesterian, I see! Yeah, it's a quiet town (with one of the highest per capita crime rates in the country, sigh) with some cool cultural stuff going on under the radar. This Hall of Fame doesn't take itself overly seriously, it's just fun.

I'm from Rochester and my mom used to work at the Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester, which is closely intertwined with the Strong hospital system. When I used to work at Ubisoft, she would constantly send me links to psychological studies from U of R researchers proving that video games, even most…

Yeah, but the sky and the sea vs. leaves/grass are pretty important things in terms of human experience of the world, which is presumably the source of linguistic evolutionary pressure to distinguish the two. The thing is that both of those color ranges highly stimulate (mostly) the same visual receptors in the eye…

So, what you're saying is this guy never heard of Seward's Folly. That poor, poor man.

Oh yeah, as a linguist, I can confirm that this is a common phenomenon across languages. See the work of <<Berlin and Kay>> (I've seen a number of Paul Kay's lectures when I was at Berkeley, he's a humorously bitchy old guy from Queens), and anyone who cites them. It's part of a range of data that shows that…

Gives new meaning to the original name "Pocket Monster"

You and me both, buddy.

You're totally right, of course— mainly I wanted to say "that's a dick move" (yes, he should have probably dropped the request for a favor) and also make a Persona 5 joke. No reason for me to judge the person as a whole based on one comment about one not-so-great moment.

(tears of woke joy)

Back when I worked in the video game industry, I took out Persona 4 from our company games library. I got like 15 minutes into the vast text saga at the beginning and bailed. I wanted a game, not a novel. I switched to P4A and enjoyed it a bit more.