Look at you fancy pants with multiple games. Taking out family and social life time, 12 hours a week is nearly impossible, and multiple games I haven’t had time for in years. I’ve gone the other route, and when a free ps+ game is good, I figure on it and can probably get through it in less than 2 months. Except when…

You don’t even need the victim to stand up for themselves. With these cases, you’ll get people arguing that crime in Chicago justifies murdering someone in New York. 

It’s not a grandfather fetish, it’s a short-game inheritance fetish.

A great point! You’re not wrong, having things rise to the top because they support the power fiction that is attractive (and enjoyable from a gameplay standpoint) is a big part of it.
I think large AAA studios (who tend to be risk averse) don’t experiment nearly enough, but that only reinforces the point you made,…

This is a great take, imo. I think what a lot of people are going to respond to is the examples Dr Gray is talking about rather than exploring the concepts, but it’s not a bad thing to consider how tweaking existing genres and tropes could revitalize gameplay loops we’ve been experiencing for years.

I dunno, to me that’s where it gets way more interesting from a game design perspective.
For what it’s worth I don’t think they’re saying Link is some sort of imperialist, or that you’re a bad person for liking the game (it’s rad as hell, you should love it), they’re just pointing out how ingrained ideas in society…

…Promptly reinstalled Dark Arisen. Dragon’s Dogma is my FAVORITE game of all time.

I played through DD: Dark Arisin twice. Once on my pc and then again on the switch. One of my favorite Arpgs of all time. Super excited to play this!

Fuck.  Yes.  So pumped for this.

Anyone who says writing is easy has probably never tried to write a well thought out, cohesive story that doesn’t have terrible dialogue and rely on cliches.

Uh…

“Despite Golden Corral increasing prices, as many restaurants have had to, the chain has retained customer loyalty because of the value afforded by certain updates.”

How White Men Fight:

I mean, honestly - and I say this as someone who regularly plays 80+ hour RPGs for the characters and story - has anyone ever really bought a Zelda game for the plot?

I just finished this last night. It was really touching and sweet. Aloy’s got a bit of a little sister thing with me (NOT in the pornhub way :P ) where I see a lot of the same social awkwardness in her character along with her earnestness, and seeing her learn to trust and enjoy someone on a personal level, knowing…

The majority of abortions in the US are for married women who already have kids. The drunken slut on spring break is a minority, but the GOP doesn't want you knowing that. 

Per Google:

You’re comparing a child to an inanimate object.

I’m pretty sure mass shootings have occurred before social media, but go off Professor. It’s weird you’re blaming “liberals” when you also say gun laws won’t do shit. Who is asking for them then, conservatives? Then you say, “it is what it is,” resigning yourself to accepting mass violence, offering nothing to the…

Anyone who uses the term “woke” to downplay something has typically been unable to actually give me a definition of what the word even means. They just don’t like it, so therefore it’s “woke”.

This world is becoming dumber, I swear..