We really do live in a time of diminished personal accountability.  “I’m sorry that he got hurt.”  He didn’t “get” hurt.  YOU HURT HIM.  

Probably because games that chug competently along aren’t generating interesting news.

Overwatch 2 is still one of the best team shooters of all time. Players who have stuck around since the beginning are experiencing burnout more than anything else. 

My experience with 5e is limited, especially when it comes to the happening in the Realms.  I get the impression that Larian maybe wanted to make a Planescape game but opted for the Baldur’s Gate license for name recognition.    The amount of planar stuff in the game just feels that way to me.  But again, I have not a…

It was kind of disappointing that we got another Githyanki focused Forgotten Realms game, but I’m not going to deny a good game.

Yep

My hesitation to choose a githyanki character has far more to do with this:

I don’t know about you, but my hometown is full of gangs roving the streets, breaking into houses and covering the ‘fridges with magnets.

This feels like a face-saving explanation on the part of manufacturers. More than likely they’re saving money by using more plastic and less ferrous metal, but want to present it as a “only trailer trash use magnets on a fridge”.

Counterpoint: don’t eat too much. My biggest weakness working from home is that I’m a constant snacker, haha. It’s hard to rein in.

I can’t find the internet on my computer, what do I do?

Oh, this is also VERY GOOD.

As an IT guy who has answered maybe 40 calls in the last week from people who are working from home for the first time: Talk to your IT department. Make sure you know what resources will work and which won’t. What requires a VPN? Do you need a smforward. What about printers? Do you have the ports open at home to…

Is the skid physically possible?

I think that the Sailor Moon henshin sequence might be a competitor for the title of most referenced.

For some reason I read that as “tonkatsu” and was all kinds of confused

OK, Kaiju game with Platinum’s already OTT combat style...

Hideki Kamiya’s really into his tokusatsu stuff... Viewtiful Joe and Wonderful 101 obviously come to mind, but there was also a Super Sentai group in God Hand, and a lot of the stylish moves in games like Metal Gear Rising or Astral Chain are very evocative of Tokusatsu henshin/roll calls.
I was just thinking it’d be…

Sounds to me like a great precedent to set: be extremely shitty, after repeatedly being warned, and you will get severely punished.