“Hark, Mike Huckabee!”
“What is it, Liberty Counsel?”
“Somewhere in America, a situation could be quietly resolved to the satisfaction of all parties if some asshole doesn’t stir shit up!”
“To the Liberty Counselmobile!”

It has less atmosphere than Amnesia, too. At a certain point you’re like, “OK I get it: corpses in fountains, dudes in wheelchairs, crazy disfigured guys.” I’m still playing it because I want to see how the story ends, but mostly I’m just bored. Logging into it knowing I’m going to be spending about half the game in a…

Serious question: Can anyone explain from a stragegic point of view what the hell he might be thinking? He’s got to see some benefit to him, right? What could it possibly be?

Starred primarily for knowing how to spell “amok”.

They rarely get handled properly in games, but not never. This War Of Mine does a great job showing how for civilians, war is truly hell. I had to stop playing after my second housemate died because it was too traumatic to me. Xenophobia is handled pretty well in Metro: Last Light.

You’re a good person and I appreciate you doing that. Thank you.

Half a house for half off?

This is why I’m afraid to move. I got into a rent-controlled apartment in Echo Park during the crash, and I pay well below market (and all I have to do is live with 1,000 roommates of the order Blattodea). I could buy a place in another state for what I pay here, but if I move I can probably never come back.

I would go so far as to say that was a design aim of the game, to give you that experience of feeling distanced from the humanity of what you’re trying to make.

That’s incredible. Not the housing thing, I’d expect the military to waste money on putting officers up in fancy digs and not give a shit about lower-ranking people with families (it sucks but it’s not surprising), but the fact that “Hey guys, he’s cool” is enough to put somebody into a military intelligence position.

I’m not saying their rights are being forced from them. I’m saying the half-assed practice of psychology by a gaming company creeps me out. When Facebook was running psychological experiments on people everybody (rightly) lost their shit.

Isn’t there some kind of potential HIPAA issue with doing this?

Wait. So you can just apply for a job as an intelligence advisor and say “I was in the CIA” and they don’t even bother to check?

this may very well not be the answer

What good has bipartisanship done Obama? Republicans shut down the government once already, and it was by refusing to be “bipartisan” and cave to their agenda that Obama faced them down. The only reason we (temporarily) avoided a government shutdown this time is because Boehner threw himself on the live grenade that…

So I actually went to their website instead of just writing from my own bias, and I discovered the following:

I had the same thought. I wonder whether it’s deliberate, capitalizing on Contantine’s reemergence into the top of fans’ minds due to the tragically cancelled TV show.

This makes total sense when you consider the school. Pictured: the average Aliso Viejo/Laguna Niguel parent.

Breach & Clear is the only game they’ve done. It’s a game originally made for mobile and then ported to desktop, where you control a SWAT team in turn-based combat. It’s either top-down or you can change the camera angle a little; I can’t remember which. It’s not a bad game, but it’s also not a great game.

Who’s moving the goalposts? Your argument, as evidenced by your opening statement, is that Columbus Day should be preserved as a US holiday. But since I did not limit my argument to rebutting yours, I’ll bite: even if we celebrated Mesoamerican cultural accomplishments, that would be different from celebrating their…