The Agent ban is surprising... given that it’s really a card that requires synergy to work right. That being said, I’ve been playing with a Winota and the ability to turn 3 an Agent was pretty damn broken. But it also had to fall into place in a very particular way to happen. There honestly wasn’t a great answer for…

Treyarch is the studio behind the Call of Duty: Black Ops series.

Respawn is the studio behind Apex Legends and Titanfall. 

Counterpoint... Mass Effect 2 has Mordin, and his dialog choices, should you keep having conversations with him, are an absolute joy.

Mill decks are always interesting and somewhat fun to play, but never a long-term viable strategy. It’s a long game strategy in a game that relies on short-game actions. Where a strong deck always has some weakness and a lot of paths to a victory, nearly every deck has a path to beating mill, it’s just a matter of…

All of these reports seem to fail at the exact same things: seemingly indicating that Nintendo is going to suddenly start chasing markets they’ve never cared about (the hardcore gamer market) or features they have never prioritized (cutting-edge graphics)... or that they’re going to try and cut costs in order to grab…

Vision and Scarlet Witch hanging out together... I’m sure nothing bad can come of that...

That question has been asked multiple times in the forum thread, but they (Curse or WotC) haven’t said anything of the sort. In fact, one of the moderators offered this, which would say you get nothing with digital...

You aren’t really buying the digital versions of the books based on what I’m seeing. You’re buying access to them within their tool. It’s locked up in their compendium as pages (and the page loading in that app is fairly sub-par based on their server-side page stuff). So no document and no offline version of this as…

I’ve used (or, more accurately, tried to use) the beta. It’s an interesting idea that’s hampered by the walls and gates they are throwing up around it. The pricing is prohibitive for what you get... especially if you already own the books.

Same, and that’s what really has me down about this. From the perspective of the previous entries in the series, it wasn’t as good. But 7/10 is an above average game, and it was worth a whole bunch of time in my book.

His last comment sort of sums up my feelings about Baywatch...

Every time I read an article on SETI, I’m always mystified on how much of their “science” has an implicit assumption and bias baked in at the outset. Optical being most likely strikes me as such an assumption that was pulled out of thin air.

Well, in the Darth Vader comics, deaths. Many, many, many deaths. Also, a fantastic duo of murderous robots.

There are many, many deep cuts like that in references and callbacks. The songs are replayed during the end credits too, and easier to pick up there.

The best one I’ve picked out was an instrumental number of Tom Servo’s “Canada” song from The Final Sacrifice.

The exact moment I knew this was the show I love (and watch all the time still) and back even better than ever... during one of the early episodes, they made a riff about Parks & Rec that was immediately followed by a joke about Walter Mondale.

I did the same thing when I beat it, and feel the same way about Ryder. I was helped along with that by the fact that Ryder’s personality, made up nearly entirely of snark and sarcasm, matches closely to my own.

I’ll second the comment that the game feels very rewarding by the ending. It puts the pedal down in the last act and doesn’t really let up. It also leaves a whole lot of questions hanging about “what’s next” and opens doors for what is to come.

Yeah, I was really disappointed that the first “big” decision you made to thaw out scientists or military didn’t have all that much of a difference past who was going to be pissed at you when you got back to the not-Citadel.

The one with Liam just really left me feeling that I really wanted to shoot Liam. A lot. I’m pretty sure that he’s a “hold my beer” response to people saying that Kaiden is the most boring Mass Effect character ever.