I’m in the small camp that played Banjo Kazooie when it was newish and never found it appealing. I played it after playing and never finishing DK64, and it felt like all the stuff I hated from DK64 without any of the good parts.

It was challenging, but I never hit a wall, so to speak. The hardest bosses only took maybe 20-30 minutes to beat, and I saw definite improvement before each death, which kept me going.

In my experience, HLD is very hard but you see improvement every time you try it. It rewards practice, unlike a lot of games that reward stubbornness or luck.

I was beginning to worry that I was aging out of hard video games, or that my life had gotten so stressful that I wouldn’t be able to enjoy challenging games anymore. Then I played HLD and remembered that there are games that are hard in the right way, that have a learning-curve instead of just a solid wall of…

I don’t understand why Vilia didn’t just...shave. If Vilia’s a trans woman and is trying to pass that is. If Vilia the Woman is just a ruse for Vilia the Man to creep on into Gerudo town, then it’s some Bathroom Bill bullshit

If someone’s ideals condemn your entire identity, you’re not beholden to not condemn them.

This makes Witcher 3 sound like...a bad game. If you can mess up that horrifically while thinking you’re doing well, it’s not a real choice, it’s arbitrary.

This interview raised my blood pressure.

just pretend it’s Rogue One

Do you like red wine? I heard that’s it’s a tannin thing. I don’t seem to taste tannins as much as other people, so black coffee and red wine are delightful to me.

I play(ed) on PS4, where characters like Widow and McCree might as well have not been available to me, and characters like Mei and Torbjorn only have one mode of fire that actually does anything. I know your pain.

Right now I’m the DM, so all of my creations are NPCs designed to serve some purpose in the story rather than exist as full characters for me to inhabit. That being said, I’m very fond of Vyerith the Doppelganger, who now goes by the ironic anagram Vherity and is trying to go straight but can’t shake her deceitful,…

I am really missing Gawker.com today

Clearly the data tapes are the uncompressed, “master” copies of the plans, and the data chip on the Rebel ship is a compressed zip version of it. The Empire keeps the full on records in the archive for archival reasons, but the Rebels only need the flattened copy.

Someone remind me, when there’s a Symmetra on your team, can everyone see when her turrets are firing on someone, or just her? Everyone is saying she’s not a true support hero bc she doesn’t provide a regular benefit to her own team, but I assumed her sentry turrets are designed to be more sentry than turret. However,…

On the other hand, one time I saw our Lucio get hooked and was able to put an ice wall between him and the Roadhog before he reeled in. Saved Lucio’s life. I’d never be able to replicate it again on purpose in a hundred years though.

Oh.

I saw the headline and thought I was about to get called out, so this is a pleasant surprise

Since you asked, yes. Pretty much exclusively people want to be known by their current name, not their deadname.

No buff to Mercy’s Guardian Angel range or Heal range, though? That’s been making her unplayable for me, not the heal rate or Res timing.