If you critically examined the behavior of most drug dealers, you’d arrive at a similar conclusion. They seem like they’re actively trying to dissuade you from giving them money.

Sounds like another contract law case that should be resolvable in five minutes - setting aside the damages calculations, of course - but will instead take years.

>because he’s a wanted fugitive or something.

A comforting lie to live in, given that it was pretty much that, but on purpose.

ME2's loyalty contests are actually really brutal. To metagame them, you have to lean very heavily into either red or blue, and also do the appropriate recruitment missions earlier so that you trigger the conflicts earlier. The “everybody wins” dialogue prerequisite increases over time (whether connected to player…

Not the greatest specific situation to try to link to that idea, no matter how true it may be. If one is honest, it’s very difficult to ignore the possibility that these guys responded to some kind of pressure, even if it didn’t rise to the level of an “evil cabal” (the article author’s words) or “pressganging”…

This article comes off as incredibly tone-deaf given how close to tongue-in-cheek the devs’ own statement is. “Considering the sensitive time we’re living in?” The players “deserve better” than literally being able to opt in or opt out of the content?

How crazy would it be if Bell turns out to be a legit multi-voice on top of everything else, and busts out a passable Marge Simpson Voice?

Maybe we should all take a minute to contemplate how utterly fucked it is, at its baseline, for a multi-billion-dollar corporation to be in a fully-fledged business relationship with a legal minor in the first place.

That’s a very polite way of saying that Horizon massively fucked up Aloy’s head and face. The other NPCs were a little uncanny, sure. But Aloy, the main character, was a train wreck.

>He actually had a great deal of musical training as a kid and he knew the rules.

I can’t really argue you with on the technical merits, but to me, EVH is such a wanker that he deserves to get knocked out of these types of lists. And I mean “wanker” in the musical sense, not just personality-wise. Christ, if I meant personality-wise we wouldn’t have two musicians to slot next to each other.

Lots of good character work tonight, and only some of it was marred by the usual “please remember and/or ignore Crisis and Earth Prime at our discretion” nonsense.

Congratulations, The Flash: you have successfully weaponized yourself. Watching this season has given me context-specific ADHD, and now I cannot organize and explicate my opinions on it. You are a tangled web of mistakes and accidents and bad decisions and tails-wagging-the-dog, and I cannot figure out what the hell…

I honestly have a hard time summing up just how, exactly, I think this show is a lazy, undisciplined waste of its main acting ensemble. But it is.

Nothing brings clarity to gross revenue like selling your shit to somebody else. Home-growing shows and movies definitely muddies those waters.

Maximum hilarity is only achieved if the guy playing the 40-year-old manager is either 10 or 100. Either will do.

And yet we still don’t have the most common-sense approach: if you’re going to be spending a lot of your time running around and fighting for your life, just get an appropriate fucking haircut for it. Then, if some situation calls for it, wear a wig.

It’s complicated. The reason they don’t have a shoot-on-sight policy for supervillains is because they’re subconsciously protecting themselves from the knowledge that they exist inside a twisted funhouse-mirror fictional universe solely for the amusement of decadent eldritch beings.

“Pffft, listen to this fucking casual, talking about Wednesdays. We cleared that shit (again, for the sixteenth time) on Tuesday night.”