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**That doesn’t actually mean they trespassed, though. Pretty unlikely they would given their profession. **

Which is why I said, in my very next sentence, that this puts the whole ordeal into the territory of his word against theirs.…

He says they trespassed, and while that puts the story into 100% “one side vs. the other” territory, I don’t know that having a physical, in-person conversation was the only way to glean that information. I do know that it carries with it a certain intimidation factor that wouldn’t have otherwise beeen achieved,…

Yep. There are some improvements, like sliding and mantling, and I have *heard* that gunplay is more accurate and satisfying, but I haven’t played myself--the footage certainly doesn’t look that way, which has me nervous.

That is a very fair and well-evidenced assessment to make about the masses. Of course we can’t throw around any actual data about their makeup, so it’s mostly a gut/perspective thing (maybe one take is more optimistic versus the other being more realistic).

In any case, you’re absolutely right and people should be…

And how clunky their shooting is compared to, say, your Destiny type games: Borderlands is an old model, and I’m genuinely curious if in all this time away it’s evolved in both a gameplay structure and raw gameplay level. And I say this as a big fan!

When I went back to play that DLC I very nearly couldn’t, it was so…

Well, but then we’re opening up a giant pandora’s box of whether it’s possible to be an ethical consumer. Like, Pitchford and Take-Two are objectively awful and I don’t want to support in any way anything they had a hand in, and the only way I can express that to any tangible degree is the clunky method of “speaking…

There are better *ways* to investigate the source of a digital leak than to send privately contracted investigators to some dude’s actual house to snoop around his property, though, too. Like, one wonders what they were meant to find in-person that couldn’t have been done online. Even if the investigators were there…

That’s what I think would have been a good idea, too: apparently the guy’s a prolific, known-in-the-fanbase Borderlands content person, so recognize that, recognize that views and clicks are his motivation, and incentivize him with an exclusive teaser video he can host on his channel. Give him an inconsequential bone…

Yeah, like, the physicality of it is what looks really messed up. Why did you need to physically send investigators to his home? What were they meant to find or determine that couldn’t have been done digitally?

Send a letter asking him to remove videos containing information you don’t want out there, ask him about his…

Eh, I’d buy it. Cheesy anime characters in a system (and basically a setting) that’s proven to work extremely well? Even if it’s not to the same quality, even remotely, it could still be fun.

I came here to say this too, because remembering to always say “anti-fascist” forces the people who’ve fallen for it to confront the notion that they are defending fascism.

You know some of them genuinely believe Antifa stands for “anti-first-amendment?” That’s why labels are dangerous.

Man, I just cannot get into Three Houses, and a huge part of it is the art style. The very “Persona” looking design just doesn’t do it for me: it makes the battles feel messy and unreadable, it makes the school and movement feel clunky (clunkier than it probably actually is), and it makes everything just look…

More the latter, yeah. I mean, I guess I don’t know about how they’ve ported and what kind of extra tutorializing it’ll have in VR; it’s likely fine—but rather, you start the game crash-landed with life support systems falling, and no resources. Your first couple hours can be legitimately daunting and frightful…

You *might* think about playing it a bit now, as trying to learn a lot of the game’s eccentricities while also acclimating to VR could be tough. Of course, don’t get too attached, and maybe even start a new save, since updates in NMS often change entire planetary traits.

That’s what I did; grabbed it back when VR was…

Me too! The only thing I am bummed about is that, I work at a school, and we go back the 13th. :-(

I would lose my whole entire shit if the HUD is set up in VR to feel like it actually is a part of the helmet. And can you imagine the dulled sound of your own breathing as you run out of oxygen?

The thing people didn’t realize going into this thing—I certainly didn’t—is that it is absolutely a game featuring a huge…

You can buy everything you’ve missed—lackluster DLC’s Curse of Osiris and Warmind, the big Forsaken expansion, and then the Annual Pass which adds some light raids, forges, and questlines (taken all at once it’s honestly quite a lot to chew through) as well as this season’s Menagerie (a nice way to target specific…

Also it’s telling that he thinks all those steps are warranted but Dr. Disrespect who walked into public bathrooms and filmed children at urinals gets two weeks.

Wonder what the difference is.

I main a Warlock now after having played a Titan for most of D1 and you absolutely can be tanky as hell. You point out yourself that the class differences aren’t overshadowed by the shooting, and that same caveat extends to how much damage they can take and dish out—you have mods for upping your resilience, and a…

She’s not directly responsible in the most literal sense, but when she, a hugely bankable, moneyed, influential, public figure behaves this way and says things like this, she then contributes to the continued prejudices and practices that cause trans people to be denied work in the first place — and indeed, to suffer…