When the galaxy is made to feel that small, when we keep revisiting these already-established nexuses of characters, Jedi or otherwise, that scale in the background fiction doesn’t carry the weight it should, and remains forever in abstract.

This series is so weird.

The funny thing is as a kid I assumed Usagi Yojimbo was just one of the many weird characters created for the TMNT toyline so I was really confused when I later found out there was a long-running comic series starring the character.

Who in the accounting department came up with 72 or 113? Unless a movie is on standard run and costs 8 credits a show (hence 72 [8 divided by 9]), that is so very obviously a way to make people buy more of these credits. 113 is a prime number, so you would literally have to buy more to use the remaining credit or…

That wasn’t horrible. It did feel a little like the Trump/Biden/Obama gaming deep fakes.

so you thought all Japanese cartoons are porn, then saw some Japanese cartoon characters introduced by a major metropolitan public transit agency, and that didn’t help out your deductive reasoning?

The answer seems to be “less than you think.”

Perfect image for this article. Sam looks hella AI generated. 

Trigun stars Vash the Stampede, a former mercenary turned pacifist who still has a huge bounty on his head and is attempting to live peacefully on the desert planet Gunsmoke. An incredibly tongue-in-cheek series, it also follows journalist Meryl Stryfe and her assistant Milly Thompson as they try to interview Vash, as…

A 6/10 review isn’t harsh. It’s positive, even! My broader issue with review scores is that there tends to be nothing between a 5 and a 9 on a 10-point scale. Games that are actually just Pretty Good get a bunch of 9s and 10s, and it makes any *reasonably metered* score look insane.

You are actually correct I had my definitions crossed, I think my econ teacher used the term “Natural Born Monopoly” for companies that dominate a market without any barriers for new players to enter but I cannot find that defined online so that might not be accurate.

If the ARPG was a game where you were expected to play through the campaign once per character and that’d be it, then fine - lock it down.

But when you make a “game as a service” that keeps going and expects characters to be played for hundreds or thousands of hours, it becomes a lot less reasonable to lock options down…

I’m pretty sure that’s not a duck.  It’s a dolphin, like Flipper.

It’s named Flipper. It’s a picture of a fucking dolphin.

It makes sense they want telemetry data but it’s still a garbage explanation. Developers often use the excuse that people are largely all online anyway but that just means they would’ve gotten the data they wanted regardless. Telemetry is not a valid explanation as to why the connection was required in the first place…

For PC players, who previously never had access to a dodge,

I don’t even know where to start with this. Dodge rolling has always been a dumb, overused mechanic that is mostly the fault of Souls games at this point, and even there, it was limited by equipment weight and stamina.

I suspect the prison sentence is more related to extortion than piracy. 

I’d be more on board if his upper torso didn’t flex. His pecs and traps shifting around with the arm movements kills it for me.