If you like Titan Quest and you haven’t played Grim Dawn you’re really doing yourself a disservice. Fantastic spiritual successor from the same team, and you can even mod it to have classes from Titan Quest, Diablo, etc. I believe there’s even a mod that fully recreates the Diablo 1 and 2 campaigns inside the Grim…

I think that’s it, I just googled and it looks like you can curbstomp Hitler during the New Colossus sequence, though it will reboot you to a checkpoint if you do.

The finer points of Canadian labor law aren’t gonna match up to US labor law exactly, but most US-allies in the anglosphere have their labor laws dictated by the same corporations and lobbyists. The US is real big on gutting foreign labor law in our trade deals with other countries.

Weird, I might be mixing up my wolfensteins or inventing a memory entirely but I feel like I vividly remember a mission in one of the post-reboot titles about killing Hitler. Maybe it’s another WW2-adjacent shooter blending into memory soup.

I thought you kill Hitler in this game. Did I hallucinate that?

Vampires have always had a prominent pop culture slot. Before True Blood and Twilight, you had Buffy and Blade. We’re definitely in a new surge of Vampire stuff with What We Do In The Shadows, Castlevania, Redfall, Vampire Survivors, V Rising, VTM Bloodhunt, VTM Swansong, Redfall etc though.

I live in a historically conservative area where they still retain a significant portion of the overall constituency, and we’ve had our own school shooting. Most conservative folks I encounter don’t subscribe to the Alex Jones false flag BS, they just fixate on mental health or lack of religion or vague platitudes…

I oversimplified but it’s all different sides of the same issue. Whether it’s H&K or Colt money flowing through an NRA PAC, directly into campaign contributions, independent expenditures, or ‘networking events’ for public officials.

This is a good post. Stuff like a buy back program is vitally important to steering America towards a future where this doesn’t happen on a weekly basis. I live in a town where the gun ownership rate is estimated at 2.4 firearms per individual human. It’s unhinged.

The only time conservative politicians have really supported gun control in the United States is when conservative fears of armed black people have surpassed conservative fears of not being able to buy their eleventh glock, which was about fifty years ago.

If the dead children at Sandy Hook didn’t sway them, I don’t…

They’ll tell you it’s about mental health and then vote against every proposal to increase availability of mental health services, or funding for those services. It’s a load of shit.

It’s possible Fatshark actually suck at shooting mechanics and get it horribly wrong but... Vermintide and Vermintide 2 are fantastic both in terms of gameplay and faithfulness to the setting so I feel pretty confident it will pan out nicely.

Chaos Gate is great, mechanically. They follow the XCOM formula fairly closely but the changes better reflect the 40k setting. For example, you can take it slow and use cover, but aggressive playstyles are rewarded with executions that provide additional actions per turn. RNG is removed from shooting, because Grey…

The original 1998 Chaos Gate game featured Ultramarines, so this is a step up. Besides that, Grey Knights make the most sense for the game and power fantasy the title is trying to achieve.

If you want some variety, the Mechanicus turn-based tactics game is also great, though not quite as big budget or deep as the new…

No, it’s just gone from 100% non-functional to 50% non-functional. Half the lobbies it attempts to connect me to still time out. The issue only occurs when queuing for BTB so it’s unlikely it’s a problem on my end.

The weirdly long cooldowns that plagued abilities in the demo and launch iteration of the game seem to have been fixed. I revisited outriders last week and cooldowns across the board seem to be much shorter.

Ability balancing in the demo (and at launch) was in a really weird place where most abilities felt like a DPS decrease compared to your firearm and had very long cooldowns. That’s changed a bit since launch, but the abilities shine once you have a few levels under your belt and start getting drops with ability…

It’s a shame, because Outriders is a decent game and a good time with friends. Nothing is going to compete with Destiny’s gunplay, but that’s okay. I like that Outriders doesn’t want or need me to treat it like a second job the way Destiny does. Not everything needs to be a forever-game.

The functionality is already in the game. Modders figured out how to enable coatings and armor across cores months ago. There may be individual pieces that exhibit clipping issues due to particulars of geometry but it’s unlikely they were going to change model geometry for cross core customization anyway.

Some folks…

Yeah, I accepted the issues at launch and their response to them and figured we’d see some progress 6 months later but that’s not the case. Thinking a lot about how they said they’d start making armor and colors work across armor cores and then... every single item added this season is armor-core exclusive. The same…