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Derek C. F. Pegritz
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I really hope the devs learn from their boneheaded mistakes and actually take the time to hang some flesh on the skeleton of Anthem’s core mechanics—because those core mechanics are solid. Flying and shooting are a lot of fun...it’s just everything else that is so terribly clumsy. But the basics of a really fun game

I want to like this game, because I love the graphics and the basic idea behind it is fun...but there seems to be absolutely no rationale for where to place your fighters. I’ve played a whole bunch of matches and if there’s an element of strategy behind hero placement, I sure as hell haven’t been able to divine it.

Darrel Huff’s How To Lie With Statistics is absolutely ESSENTIAL for anyone entering business or STEM fields.

Darrel Huff’s How To Lie With Statistics is absolutely ESSENTIAL for anyone entering business or STEM fields.

I love Ted Chiang’s work! The whole idea of prisms greatly appeals to me, though I know I’d spend every minute I’m awake talking to better versions of me.

I would’ve just removed the offending line. Don’t even tell me you can’t Photoshop that. However, I suppose it is just easier to select the image and click delete. Ohwell--doesn’t really matter. I’ve been playing the hell out of the game and never even saw it.

I’ve been photographing all of the abandoned luggage and signs of people who’ve died. But the other day, I accidentally shot a dog--who stupidly ran right into a massive firefight--and I literally wanted to die.

Bitchin’ Camaro! I’m in.

Anthem. It’s really fun.

I really enjoyed the base game, and I’m sure I’ll enjoy this expansion...though I rather wish there was an option to institute martial law and execute or force into servitude any dissenters. Sorry, folks, but when the survival of everyone is at issue, individual lives matter only as much as those individuals can

The Field of Reeds was so beautiful I can’t wait to die now! Although, honestly, I’ll probably just end up hanging out in the Duat with Lord Inipu, tending the lotus beds.

Though I really dig the premise (overused and hackneyed as they are, I still can’t get enough of child-eating monsters), this sounds like just another overwritten, overlong Stephen King novel. And I’ve been over King since, like, 1991.

I’ve had the daemon-shits many a time, but never once have I ever shat furiously! But that is most definitely the most furious shit I’ve ever witnessed.

I’ve been a devotee of ancient Kem for years, and even though I’m more the Middle-Kingdom/Reign-of-Rem-Sisu-the-Great fan, even Ptolemaic Kem is still amazing, and the sheer amount of content in this game is staggering. I’m still playing it and finding new stuff!

I’ve yet to try the faith route because I’m far too much a Nietzschean, and I see the frostpocalypse as the perfect means by which to eliminate irrational beliefs once and for all.

Frostpunk is SO MUCH fun...if you play it as an iron-willed, dispassionate dictator who only admits healthy refugees, puts children to work everywhere, and ruthlessly purges discontent. The survival of the human species is too important to worry about individual feelings. I’ve never had to execute anyone, though,

Nice to see somebody else impressed with this game! It’s fun, and the voicework is spoopy as hell.

I cannot—CANNOT—for the life of me understand the appeal of these games. The longest I’ve ever lasted in a Fortnite game is...about thirty seconds. What do you do after you get whacked within seconds of hitting the ground? Sit around with your thumb up your ass watching others play? Immediately queue up for another

I love literally everything about this game—and now that I’ve completed all the story content (which I greatly enjoyed), I’m going back to investigate all the papyrus puzzles just so I can appreciate the world-design that much more.

Dua Thoth, I can’t wait!

I like Dirk Diggler and Reed Rothchilds’ version of the song a little better.