There’s nothing in it for him to apologize. He’d have to break character, and that character made him rich. It’s not like anyone who is outraged by this is going to subscribe if he says he regrets what he did.

I know it looks bad, and believe me I am the last person to be defending microtransactions, but what amounts to a digital storefront is waaaay less complex than character coding.

The Sandy Hook thing was wholly unacceptable, but I don’t agree that her not wanting to fight what is biologically a man makes her transmisogynistic. That’s just people refusing to acknowledge a very complicated situation in the interest of tolerance. 

I seem to have touched a nerve. Maybe I shouldn’t conflate your writing and game knowledge for Ethan’s, but after seeing an article ostensibly about hitboxes not mention them once, I just wanted to be sure. Sorry if that came off as condescending.

I can’t stand Rousey as a person and listening to her in game or in real life is an exercise in torture. With that said “Sandy Hook-denying, transmisogynistic comment-making” makes it sound more like a personal vendetta, rather than just focusing on her being god awful as a voice actress in MK11.

Fair enough, just saying it would’ve been nice to see that noted in the article. There were a couple of articles before (like the one about Z-axis affecting Donkey Kong’s punch in Smash Ultimate) where the term was noticeably absent.

Beat to it. Arcee has some killer pipes. I can listen to Cybertronic Spree’s cover of Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song all day.

Meant to add Hasbro has released an Arcee based on her original movie appearance (and numerous other “female” Tfs) that has that would be described as a boob chest - but it has zero cleavage.

I constantly look at my Ram and wonder why it doesn’t have boobs. Everything is better with boobs.

I... dunno if that’s going to be the case. Destiny, TheDivision, WarFrame franchises seem to have reliable player bases. All 3 are very grindy. We could all debate whether the experiences are incomplete and predatory, but the net result of “pay money for regular content updates” is not going away.

Thank goodness that even though the future in TD2 is bleak, that there is a ray of politically correct sunshine.

Regarding Fiddler, one element I attribute to growing apart is a lack of substantive communication about goals, interests, and current issues. I noticed it in my parents: they talked about immediate problems but gradually stopped putting in the effort to communicate their wants, needs, and problems. Eventually my dad…

At the rate they were going before EA gave them a hard deadline, Anthem never would have actually come out. Things only started coming together once they were forced to stop screwing around and actually get something done.

Were EA not in the picture, it’s very possible Bioware would’ve worked on Anthem until it were actually ready, and most of the launch issues would’ve been eliminated.

Bud, you’ve really gotta drop the “publishers are evil” torch. It’s just not a useful framing device.

Sega has had pretty high tier emulation for years now. From memory, they hired Steve Snake, the guy who made the Kega Fusion emulator.

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Because the game is run by faux-knowitall jackasses. They think ‘removing’ portals makes the world larger. It doesn’t. But they would rather waste player time having them run around (same reasoning for removing flying in Draenor...before caving and giving it back, with hoops) then realize that ‘new and interesting’ is…

Synsha’s comment is the most on-point, going back on quality-of-life convenience changes is indicative of a dev team who aren’t really sure what direction the game should be going in