The Electoral College.

The two-party system is so ingrained in ‘how things work’ that it’s unlikely an independent or otherwise “3rd party” candidate will ever win. At least barring some massive political and/or cultural shift.

So really additional candidates only serve to reduce the numbers for the “major” candidates.…

Eeehhhh. I agree that he’ll manage to somehow lose his shit even more than is now standard. But at this point I’m not so confident in the “then some adult” part.

We’ve been saying some variation of that since he announced his campaign for President. But through each new and horrifying ‘line in the sand’ he drags his…

Eeehhhh. I agree that he’ll manage to somehow lose his shit even more than is now standard. But at this point I’m not so confident in the “then some adult” part.

We’ve been saying some variation of that since he announced his campaign for President. But through each new and horrifying ‘line in the sand’ he drags his…

Princess Koopa seemed like the much better, relatively obvious choice, to me. Or maybe something like Queen Kooptool or Toadoopa or some other fusion of Koopa and Toadstool.

Peach and Bowser’s names just don’t blend together very well. The best option probably being Powser. 

It’s not different enough. Same reason I don’t care for getting the Into the Spider-Verse suit. It’s just another very similar riff on the Classic suit. Which was already in the game in a few different ways.

I’d much rather get something different, like Bombastic Bag-Man, Future Foundation, Ricochet, Captain Universe,…

The difference is the number of moves. With only the one move, Destiny can more reasonably argue their emote is an homage. Fortnite directly rips more of the dance, so it has less [legal] ground to stand on.

This is part of him getting the choreography copyrighted. You pick the easier case to win, and if you win it…

There’s definitely a price difference, then, since a 6" Turkey from Subway is about $5, for which I could get 2 Big Macs here.

And I’ve noticed all the Subway’s I’ve been to have gotten increasingly stingy with the topping over the years. I think it’s partly because of the franchising, where different locations might…

It’s not really that much healthier. It has some healthier options than your standard fast food, but then a lot of fast food places also now have salads. And while it’s certainly cheaper, I’ve also noticed that every Subway I’ve been too in the last several years gives an insanely small ratio of toppings-to-bread.

So…

In my experience [video] game companies are the stingiest when it comes to compensation for issues.

Like I had an issue where, in an MMO, I lost some stuff (not from a hack, but from some game/update issue) that was valued at something like $50. After having to jump through hoops to prove that I should have what I’d…

From what I’ve seen 76 is a mediocre game that certainly doesn’t appeal to everyone.

Which is... fine? So all the torches and pitchforks makes me roll my eyes and mutter something about how self-entitled “Gamers” have gotten.

The real issues are Bethesda’s stance against refunds and stuff like this-- which is clearly…

Personally I’ve wondered if the explosion of modding their games that started with Oblivion and really hit a high note with Skyrim isn’t kind of holding them back from some upgrades to certain bits of tech. Specifically I mean the idea that they might be worried that changing a system to much might negatively impact…

The engine probably does look drastically different. Lots of new code, probably even some new tools.

The engine isn’t really what makes a game look a specific way. I mean, parts of the engine create the look, but your issues here— that Beth games since Morrowind/Oblivion all look and play the same— has nothing to do…

If you paid $500+ to go to a convention in the hopes of seeing only one thing, that you had no guarantee of actually being there... Well, I can only hope that you’re doing well enough that you can take the loss.

Also, my god, that’s a stupid waste of money. I mean, if you’re so well off and/or “hardcore” of a Diablo…

Actually Jeff called her Echo when he was going over the characters from the short. So probably not Athena.

From what friends have told me, a fair bit of the Diablo fan community was expecting some giant reveal/announcement— like something along the lines of a Diablo 4— so a lot of people got reeeaaally pissed that all Blizzard had to show was a mobile game.

So, basically it’s like all the people pitching a fit that Geno…

This was my reaction exactly. The more they revealed the more and more it looked exactly like a gacha game.

I’ll be shocked if you can’t at least buy packs of the in-game currency, unfortunately.

Let’s see, the Spirits have what looks to have rarity (which doubles as general quality, of course), can be leveled, and can be “fed” “snacks” to level them up. Oh and they’re equipped to your fighters.

That sounds an awful lot like gacha game mechanics. I don’t know that they’d necessarily do a premium/pay currency,…

Normally I would have missed it entirely, but given everything else... was the ‘trail of treats’ event they were at a reference to the goddamn Trail of Tears?

I wouldn’t call not highlighting police corruption ‘bad storytelling’. Primarily because the game’s story is already pretty robust, there’s no need to kitchen-sink it with that angle— which might also have complicated the gameplay.

It’s entirely possible that a later game in the series will tackle the issue of the…

As someone who lives in NYC, the game doesn’t take place here. Or I guess I’ve just missed Avenger’s Tower, Oscorp, and whatever insane natural disaster severely altered the geography of Upper Manhattan.

Whoever told you that the PS4 game realistically recreated NYC, they lied to you. The game has a... decent…