“On today’s gaming news, police are investigating an airborne assault. Authorities suspect fowl play. "

Could G2A do more to catch individuals trying to pass them stolen keys? Probably. But where do we draw the line? Because they can’t possibly catch every single person who wants to exploit their services.

No paying full price back then didn’t mean that. It could mean that. Or it could mean you were getting a broken/unfinished mess that would forever stay a broken/unfinished mess, and you had less chance of hearing about it because your main news source back then was magazines. Oh yeah and a lot of “full” games back…

“40% of a game riddled with so many bugs that need to be fixed in a launch day patch, and the remaining 60% of the game is released over two years as paid DLC.”

Midgar Slum Mom is the name of my metal band.

“This Midgar-Slum Mom uses ONE WEIRD TRICK to Save THOU$ANDS on her Cooling Bill! HVAC Technicians HATE HER!”

Why aren’t they using an ice materia in an AC. Rich people get to use Shiva.

I saw the Untitled Goose Game people roaming the show floor, it was pretty funny. The goose would start bothering people playing tabletop games and the “villagers” would run up to him with their signs.

I dunno what I did in life to lead me to where I am now but I made a serious mistake along the way. Why am I not a cosplayer? Why are all my friends not cosplayers? Why am I not dating a cosplayer? What did I do to deserve this extremely inferior existence? These people are amazing. God dammit.

didn’t even have to twist your arm to get you to give me hand

I actually had some dissonance for different reasons. It was weird to be doing a sidequest where I’m playing bocce ball with some farmers instead of FIGHTING AT BUNKER HILL. It was a weird mix of fun, goofy sidequests and world-changing main quests. 

Context does matter, but you are picking and choosing what context matters to you. As it stands, white people wearing dark makeup to appear black is the continuation of a practice tied to the mocking of black people, and often enslaved Africans, in the US. That’s the context for this. More context for this, which a…

The only thing that would do is give “Gamers” something else to bitch about.

Let’s review a non-comprehensive list of things that lead to Internet Gaming Assholes taking up virtual pitchforks:

1) Non-white, non-male, and/or non-straight characters
2) Non-white, non-male game developers
3) Console exclusives
4) Loot boxes…

For the better part of a decade, Valve had a near-monopoly on the PC game storefront, with no real competition. To the point that Steam was synonymous with digital PC game storefronts, like Kleenex or Advil. Valve’s lack of proactive or timely fixes to Steam are a direct result of them having no real competition. It…

Good god look at all the Steam bros coming out whining all over the internet AGAIN. Jesus christ how can you have such ridiculous allegiance to some corporation that doesn’t give a crap about you?

Exclusives are a way of creating competition between storefronts. Epic has drawn a line in the sand labeled 12% and now expects Steam to step up if they want games to be drawn back to their storefront. 30% is an INSANE royalty rate and they only got away with it because there wasn’t an alternative. Now there is.

AC3 had some serious narrative discord going on, cutscene Connor constantly questioned killing, gameplay Connor murdered whole brigades of Redcoats.

I thoroughly enjoyed III as a game, but I constantly found Haytham’s characterization better than Connor’s. I found myself wishing I could have played as Haytham more instead. I also found Connor’s whole objection at Haytham murdering anything in his way kind of...dissonant with a game that lets you regularly murder…

We have less unions than we used to because managers tend to respect their employees more or else the number of unions would have increased.

I actually love coming back between missions and talking to all the weird NPCs. I think their dialogue is pretty fun (sexy fun) and don’t really care if it doesn’t “add up to something” down the line. I obviously don’t want it to be like real life, where I meet dozens of people a day whom I will never care about or…