I thought powered armor is supposed to make you invulnerable to falling damage?

Yeah, but the suit you get early is functional but dilapidated, all covered in rust and beaten by the passage of time. It gets damaged in places and you need to spend resources to repair it at special crafting stations.

It is amusing that Trump named his book Crippled America, because I think a crippled nation are what most voters would associate with his hypothetical leadership.

Aw crap. I wanted an old-timey hat, but I had to avoid a fedora due to the douchebro associations it has. Are you saying the douchebros are going to take my newsboy cap away from me too?

As Colbert once said, “Turns out even Republicians like some things about Obamacare - everything but the Obama part.”

Put another way, to a narcissist, “Reality is a matter of opinion.”

I suppose in one sense, it is not a “lie” if you believe it at exactly the moment you said it.

What I like about the Metro games is how well they illustrate the contrast between western and eastern versions of a nuclear apocalypse.

“I’mma’ let ya’ finish!”

I remember actually getting to play Starcraft: Ghost at E3 back in 2004. I remember the demo mission being one in which Nova had to infiltrate a Terran base that had been overrun and infested with Zerg. She had to dodge Zerglings that were individually weak but could move quickly around the area and potentially raise…

Hey, some guys are into having their face shoved into a lady’s crotch while quoting well-known nerdy references.

While individually negotiated exceptions can exist, I find an excellent rule of thumb to never expect your partner to do something to you that you would not be willing to do to them. Why should anyone want to go down on you if you are not willing to do the same to them?

Trump is sure that the grapes Last Week Tonight puts in their green room were sour anyway.

I could point to George Orwell’s “doublethink”, the concept of holding two mutually contradictory ideas and believing both of them absolutely (like knowing for a fact something is a lie and believing it is true anyway) but I think that Sarah Palin gave us a good explanation when she drew the distinction between “real…

I am pretty sure “villainize the media as a whole and try to take control of it,” is Fox News’ founding mission statement.

Damn, this sounds like a lot of fun. I will have to read her book. As someone who enjoys horror games and the crafting of narritive, I think it would be enlightening.

There is also the trope that things which the audience cannot see effectively do not exist. The night might be unrealistically bright out in the forest, but limiting the player to just what their flashlight can shine on and the stars above would make for a boring and/or frustrating level set piece. Better that the…

I really admired just how right they got the environment. It looks and feels a lot like parts of rural western Washington, and I love that they show the environment off in both the daytime beauty and the haunted nights.

Growing up as a male in our society makes it difficult to avoid internalizing some degree of machismo, and I do not necessarily think it is bad, I just try to express it hopefully non-toxic ways. I do find a certain kind of weakness contemptible, but mainly when such weakness is expressed via aggressive posturing,…

Is it just me, or are there some states out that that seem to be in a state of civil war between a plurality of their citizens and everyone else living there? It is like, “We’re going to fuck you all over so we can beat our chests and feel righteous! Your health, safety, and prosperity is expendable in the face of our…