Irony is never not entertaining.

Fine.

Yes, services like Live can be down regionally. It doesn’t happen often, as a good system should shift load to other datacenters.

isn’t pigeonholed into one specific network

Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse*

Ace Combat 6's trailer was good, but you can’t trump its ancestor Ace Combat Zero.

The “Alliance” module they’ve been pushing is basically their guide to doing stuff at 65. In order to recruit alliance members, they have you go all over the place killing world bosses, doing flashpoints, etc.

Remakes of Ace Combat 4, 5, and Zero.

Sorry to nitpick, but visual novels coming out these days aren’t all so short as to be in the realm of free. Some of the ones out right now are literally some of the longest novels in existence.

The average novel ranges between 60,000 and 100,000 words total.

Uplay has gotten better, but it is a legitimately questionable service that has no particular fine points. Nothing from me on that.

You need to look harder, I’m not the first that has accepted that, yeah it works. It works pretty well.

If you change something that’s going to affect the flow of the game, you’d better believe that you need to get it approved by someone.

Games technically came out on EA’s Origin and Ubisoft’s Uplay, but everyone mostly just held their noses and only used those services when they absolutely had to.

But censorship, and I mean censorship, is being forced to remove something. They still have the decision to use ESRB. As a result, it’s a cultural issue, not a systemic legal one. Censorship implies a legal breach rights or at the very least the suppression of something that should have no reason to be suppressed, not…

I’m going to keep the CGI space battle improvements, thanks.

There’s truth to that, but that’s still not censorship. Using the word censorship is implying that it’s legally compelled, which undermines when censorship actually occurs. Certainly, the fear of censorship is a dangerous road to censorship itself, but this is a cultural issue, not a systemic speech problem. One can…

I’d agree with you if there weren’t games that skirt ESRB and just sell themselves as Unrated. I happen to know about those quite well.

I’m an adult, I may not like everything in every game. But I’m sure as hell not going to say it should be banned because I don’t like it. I certainly hate gore, but I’m not going out there saying gore should be banned from games.

That mod makes the game unplayable, so...

That mod makes the game unplayable, so...