I have a Macbook Pro for work which I've found myself using more and more for gaming this past year, so here's some stuff beyond DwS's excellent recommendations that I've played on my Mac and enjoyed, and which I can confirm run well on OS X. In reality, though, if there's an indie game you're interested in, it's…

As with many of our conversations, I disagree personally but nonetheless think this is a very well-argued explanation! I do get why people love the Bloody Baron so much - it just does absolutely nothing for me.

I gotta hand it to CDPR for actually listening to criticism of their previous two games re: women (and apparently, in the DLC, criticism of the lack of non-white people). They generally speaking seem like good folks, despite having tons of awful fans. Even though TW3 didn't gel with me in the end, I'm still…

Charismatic sociopath?! PUCKISH ROGUE!!

The cinematic editors did a really good job with his facial expressions too. He's such a Grumpy Gus!:
http://images.akamai.steamu…

Hawke's The Guy Who Sucks!! (Or the Gal!) (God damn it I love Hawke, that lovable fuckup.)

It's a well-structured quest, with some beautiful moments, and the ending can be a big shock if you make certain choices. I'm still at a loss for why this quest in particular is considered to be so brilliant, however.

I kinda feel the same way about Triss, to a lesser extent. I like her character, but her American voice always grates and feels out of place. Geralt's VO is massively improved from the first game, however. A subtle wryness has snuck in, and he does moments of humor and awkwardness quite well, in addition to the…

I think the tailor is Elihal? Elihal's awesome. I think they're/he's just a devotee of cross-dressing rather than being trans, from what I remember of the dialogue. Maybe gender ambiguous. That was one of my favorite parts of the game. And while Novigrad / the quest for Dandelion dragged on, I actually really…

No lie, the Dorian-Bull stuff in the Trespasser credits made me actually tear up.

Tsundere as fuck.

Oh, the usual type. The kind that claims that directly engaging with homosexuality and providing a gay romance is "pandering" and therefore disrespectful, but that briefly mentioning a character's sexuality and never discussing it again is the height of sophistication. Hint: many of these people are strangely…

This is a very good description of it!

Yeah, this matches my views. TW3 = better open world and sidequests, but I actually cared what was happening in Inquisition. (And I ironically say this as someone who looooved TW2, despite its janky-as-fuck combat and majorly icky elements.)

Things I'm tired of this year:
- Reading internet comments by dudes telling me that The Witcher 3 is waaaay more feminist than that pandering Inquisition. Like, okay dude. (Points if they argue it's "better for the gays" too.)
- Articles by other, far less shitty well-meaning dudes saying that The Witcher 3 has The…

I get what you're saying, but man, like I said in my earlier posts, it still feels like profoundly well-trodden ground to me, albeit perhaps not in games for this particular scenario. The suffering of women and racial minorities as window dressing for men's emotional growth and pathos, or just as world-building…

Well actually, if you read the original books…
Nah, just joking. He's just as irritating in the novels. (At least in English; maybe he's not completely infuriating in Polish?)

I liked the game a wee bit more than you did - it's positively progressive compared to the previous games, and I mostly stopped playing because of pacing issues and the demanding length of the game. But fuck it if I don't agree with you about the Bloody Baron questline. Oh wow, a game creating morally grey pathos for…

Oh sure, I'm agreeing with you. Park was never Korean except by reader assumption, so declaring The Martian to be part of the "whitewashing" phenomenon is not really accurate. If anything, the film is guilty of turning Asian characters into Black characters (Kapoor), which if it's anything is proooooobably not…

It's a real gray zone. One the one hand, there should be lots more Asian folks at NASA than we actually see in the film. On the other hand, Park was never actually listed as Korean or white, the film continues the message of strong cooperation with China, and they cast Donald Glover as a astrodynamicist. And in the…