All anyone needs to do is glance at your comment history, my precious little dude.

Because one of these things treats it as just a thing people are. The other acknowledges it for what it is: a condition that can be managed with proper treatment.

Nope.

Nice try though.

I don’t think there’s a moral quandary here at all. You provide him with housing and treatment, because of course you do. If this man is mentally ill, and I think it’s hard to argue that he isn’t given the randomness and frequency of his acts of violence, he needs treatment.

Don’t get me wrong. My heart breaks from the…

and if people look at that ad and think “Well that looks pretty underwhelming”, then it’s essentially failed at building hype, hasn’t it?

Because that was my impression of it, and there’s no reason why a Star Wars game should come across as boring, even in a two minute ad. There’s so much mythology to work with.

EA has…

It sounds like you’re agreeing that it’s real work but she was just bad at it.

So, I mean, yeah? But that seems to be the general consensus doesn’t it?

Am I the only one terribly underwhelmed by this? A bunch of generically Star Wars themed components stacked into a trailer with a generic white male lead?

Really? I mean, I think it’s important to understand the candidates before they start campaigning and narratives start calcifying, and I think there are some important considerations in that article.

Viewing candidates critically isn’t the same as slandering them, and I say this as a leftist who was disgusted and…

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A LANDSLIDE he says!

And being interested solely in the reaction is shallow and insipid (which isn’t a big surprise, coming from Ellis). It analyzes such a narrow cross-section of the issue that it strips out any meaningful context.

Ellis is essentially saying that he’s tired of hearing criticism about Trump overstepping boundaries in the…

I think the people who defined this narrative were looking at it through the prism of their adolescence: the 90s comic book boom. And considering that the consensus at the time was that the driving financial engine for these films were 20-something white men, it wasn’t necessarily a bad narrative.

I grew up in that…

We can assess a product or piece of art from multiple angles. If I’m interested in buying Sea of Thieves now (though I’m not, and I don’t own an XBox One), what matters to me is what the game looks like now and what the developers’ present philosophy for updating the game looks like.

Analyzing the legacy can be a good…

Fetusberry? Is that you?

Yeah, I think that’s exactly it. Maybe there’s a path to RPG GaaS that we just haven’t considered yet, but anything I could imagine would basically require the same resources you’d need if you were supporting a single player RPG with DLC or an MMO with expansions.

Probably not a popular opinion, but I actually preferred Dragon Age 2 to the first game and Inquisition. I can recognize that it objectively wasn’t better, but something about the epic and expansive quests of the bigger Dragon Age games made me glaze over a little bit. But I can recognize they really dropped the ball…

Exactly this. The problem with GaaS isn’t its potential. I think there’s a lot of exciting routes that the model could take, and with a solid model, it could offer a promising future for gaming. It’s that they most immediately profitable and most prevalent way of monetizing it is to create repetitive content and…

I don’t know. I’m inclined to believe that if EA decides their fans don’t want a live service version of Dragon Age, they’re more inclined to strip Bioware and sell it for scrap than they are to opt for making it a traditional single player experience. Live service, for better or worse, is the formula that EA has…

Here’s the thing. I think the notion of Dragon Age 2 was sound, and I actually found a whole lot to like in it. The primary problems came from the execution and a lack of resources, but a more intimate and choice-driven approach to the series isn’t a bad idea.

That’s a completely ridiculous notion! I know people are upset about the route that EA is taking with some of Bioware’s franchises, but you’ve got to chill out and get some perspective.

Mass Effect 5 is going to be a battle royale.

Wow what a smart idea! Let’s punish the workers for the shitty predicament they endure!

Continuing a bad practice allows those workers to still make a livable income while we push for reform.

So how about you just never go out to eat?