Lets set aside the issues that explain why armed revolution rarely works for a moment. At the moment, a lot of the armed forces come from the midwest, are staunch red and have all the weapons. They’re backed by the largest amount of military spending in the world and have all the equipment they could ever need. Not…

I’m aware of Lincoln and that he wasn’t nearly as anti-slavery as we’d all love to believe. I’m aware there are other issues. But when the south seceded, by their own words, the issue was slavery. And whether history bears out Lincolns intentions at the time, they whole-heartedly believed him and broke away on that…

I hope it doesn’t come to it either, because if a civil war happens, we’re losing. Most of the military these days comes from the midwest, partly due to lack of other opportunities, and they’re pretty staunch red. We’re at a point where the military’s not exactly balanced in ideology. If things got real, the country…

There’s really no gray area on why the Civil War happened. Their own words on why they seceded are pretty clear about it. Other factors were involved, sure - I can’t think of a time when something came down to one single issue - but they weren’t shy about what was most important to them and it was slavery.

The kool aid drinkers won’t turn on him. Fanatics are fanatics, no matter if they’re for Trump, Hillary, Bernie, whoever. Everyone else are the ones to watch. If things get bad enough, people will turn on him. Don’t forget that this guy is going in with the worst approval rating of any incoming President. Even people…

He doesn’t really have a choice on the peaceful transition of power, or at least not a real one if he wants even the slightest chance America remains. Actually straight up challenging the incoming President and trying to usurp him or whatever other idea everyone has to stop this will tear the country apart literally,…

He went about it in the worst way possible - there was no reason to tell them to jump in front of a shuttle - but I don’t think calling them out was necessarily unwarranted. They were doing it for a while, past the point the joke stopped being funny, and it was starting to agitate one of the runners. The guy on the…

Yeah, dude went too far. He’s probably going to face repercussions for it. Apparently AGDQ has been taking issues seriously the past several years. If he’s not banned, he’s unlikely to be invited back at the least.

The Root is on the front page of Kotaku now. That’s why. It started with “Please Allow Us to Reintroduce Ourselves” and continued, with two articles, “City of Biloxi, Miss., Renames MLK Jr. Day and Surely Regrets It Now” and “Shut Up Bernie Sanders” hitting the sidebar of Kotaku today. I actually thought this was a…

It’s possible developing for the N64 was just that much of a nightmare that it made Square say “well, it’s probably time to go to the competition”. They were never owned by Nintendo and company loyalty is more an internal thing than companies being buddies with one another. I hold that any company would stab another…

Need it explained in text? It’s a nebula. That’s why it’s nicknamed Nebby. I picked that up long before I had the chance to get one and see a Pokedex entry. Even most of the ones people complain about are very easily identified. People complain about the trash Pokemon, but you know full well what it is at a glance.…

Come on man, don’t let yourself get caught up in the blame game. We’ve been doing that for almost two months now. We’ve all shed our tears, but there’s no changing what happened. At some point we have to reorganize if we’re going to hold the line in 2018 and win big in 2020. We don’t even know what Russia did, but…

Trump didn’t win on his hardcore supporters, though. Dem’s simply did not show up in the midwest and enough people wrecked by the job loss and inaction on things like Flint on top of dislike of Hillary flipped that he won three states that voted for Obama by the slimmest possible margins. When it comes to voting,…

If it’s a recession, and the signs are a big one is coming no matter who ended up President, it’s not going to matter who they blame or who set it up. Presidents have been trying to shift blame on the prior administration that set it up numerous times. It never works, even if it’s true, except with the die hards who…

I almost hope they don’t, because that’s about the only way things could get worse. Trump delegitimized the entire process in the eyes of a lot of people during the campaign. At the time it was just so he could save face when he lost (which seemed inevitable at the time; how naive we were) but a lot of people who…

You know, at first, when I made my last post where I’d decided to more or less concede, I figured I was the issue here. Maybe something about my posts I didn’t see set you off. Maybe I gave a tone I didn’t mean to. It’s hard to judge your own actions and words honestly. But you know, now I’m not so sure.

My entire point was probably not clear at all - and that’s entirely on me - and I’m more than a bit afraid that going on past this is going to end in me getting a bit snippy about it - for something that’s not a hill I feel like dying on - so I’ll call the super long posts here and just go with “we’ll just disagree on…

I’m not talking about challenge. All of that ignores that games are designed and designed for progression, with milestones and buildup of game systems that lead to other things. Could you imagine someone buying, to use your example, a game like Bayonetta or Devil May Cry or whatever just for the final boss? They’d be…

You did better than me, then. I used to be like you and think “what are they talking about”. Then I did a second playthrough of Fallout 3 with all the DLC. At one point, I saved next to a small town. I think it was the killer cannibal family that acted like a 50's nuclear family to the point of frightening uncanny…

I’m fine with letting you jump in and out of story bits at will once you beat the game - plenty of games offer chapter selects after you finish the main story and I don’t think it would hurt for RPG’s to figure out a way to do this - but letting it happen from the start? No way. It’s a video game; they’re not meant to…