That’s an homage to the panel where Superman got nuked in Dark Knight Returns, right?

It’s got four abilities mapped to QWE and an ult bound to R. Positioning, skillshots and teamfights function similarly. Unless “skill” is memorizing shop builds, HOTS requires about the same amount of skill as LOL or DOTA.

The first thing I am going to ascend will be my necrochasm. LOL. JK.

Usually, if I buy a full-priced game, it’s something I will be messing with for at least a few weeks, during which the trade-in value falls each day. If I buy a game at release and bring it back to trade in a month later, they will probably give me about $15 in store credit for a $60 game. But if I buy games at the…

Their policy is their policy. But I don’t like the GameStop employee acting like the customer is some kind of lunatic for thinking the price of a used game should be negotiable. Most shops that sell secondhand goods will negotiate on price, because there is no SRP for used goods, and the valuation is subjective. If…

GameStop is not the GAP. They are selling used games. So, it’s like negotiating a price at a thrift store.

The haggling cowboy is my goddamn hero. You’re buying and selling used video games. You don’t tell this gentleman how retail works.

Maybe the Prison of Elders will be awesome. It sounds a lot like they’re aware of the problems with the game, and the complaints hardcore players have about it. Dark Below was already deep in development when the game went live, and they didn’t have much of a chance to correct the game’s problems. They’ve had six…

I don’t think last hitting and items are particularly compelling. It seems like MOBA skill is about positioning, skill shots and team coordination. All of that is present in HOTS. This is a game from the Starcraft developers, and that game has the highest skill cap of anything out there.

I think Obsidian handled this perfectly. I don’t think the joke justifies outrage, but it’s certainly not a necessary part of the game. They went to the backer who wrote it and got them to submit alternate text. The joke is changed without anyone admitting fault or making a hand-wringing apology or vilifying the…

The issue isn’t whether a comeback is technically possible. What makes a win impossible after a certain point is the way one or more teammates is playing or the fact that somebody has disconnected from the game.

I’m personally of the opinion that hero damage and deaths are the key stats. Everybody should be in the lanes at the start of the game, but pushes really need to be timed around the other team being at a disadvantage.

I have been playing Heroes of the Storm lately, and I have really come to understand toxicity. It is so frustrating to know that you have no chance of winning as a direct consequence of the way a randomly assigned teammate is playing, and also knowing that the game is going to last another 15 minutes.

Whatever. It's comics.

Mark Millar wrote a series ten years ago called The Ultimates that basically reset the Marvel Universe and let him do an Avengers origin story. The idea was to strip away all the decades of weird continuity and start the thing over from scratch, without all the confusing baggage. That series forms a loose basis for…

If you actually wear your sneakers, you'll probably wear out the upper or the treads long before the polyurethane mid soles break down.

The quality and cost of the labor has nothing to do with the chemical breakdown of polyurethane.

The strippers are trying to get money from men, and the desirability of a man's presence in the neighborhood is probably inversely proportional to the amount of money he gives strippers.

People aren't trying to put burqas on female streamers. What we're talking about is a very deliberate attempt to boost the stream's viewers by pushing sex, rather than gameplay or commentary. You can tell, because most streamers who are actually streaming gameplay devote most of their screen real-estate to the game,…

That's kind of irrational. A strip club is a business that caters to vile, disgusting pricks, and the high concentration of them in the neighborhood is attributable to the strip club.