It’s clearly a popular framework. I think as we get further away from the decade of Pottermania we will see that particular subgenre breath out a little more. In the lit world, Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy has made some waves and is primed for some network or studio to swoop in and buy the film rights if they…

Depending on how much gaming you did 10 or 15 or 20 years ago you might recall that for a long time, just about (not everything, but definitely most) every game attached to a film franchise was typically a low budget reskin of something popular, except somehow immeasurably worse.

Legacy’s strength is that it’s a high…

This is really easy to explain if you’ve played the game, which is an initially pretty and engrossing contemporary open world RPG in the style of Odyssey or Witcher III. The first 5-10 hours capture what made the movies cool when you were a kid and then the next 40-50 hours are a Ubisoft map game where you do the same…

On normal difficulty, I’ve found the AI is competent enough to not run through fire when other options exist, but fire and explosives still seem to be very effective ways to initiate combat. It’s not Divinity II levels of environmental warfare, where 3 turns into a combat, every surface is covered in one of 6…

My state has this law, but when I share this information with people, more often than not they’ve never heard of it before.

The First Amendment has no standing here - it does not regulate the behavior of private businesses.

Some states have tried with varying degrees of success to issue prohibitions on non-disparagement agreements, arbitration clauses, and some forms of non-disclosure agreement in the workplace but that also wouldn’t really…

Big time this. It’s a life saver for inventory management. I regret that I made it a good 15ish hours in before noticing it exists.

I keep finding that things I really didn’t expect to work end up being quite effective. I was underleveled and having trouble with an encounter so I decided to explore elsewhere and come back later. I found a dozen casks of exploding booze in another location, so I hauled them back and set them up around the target…

I don’t know who needs this information but a 16 STR human paladin can carry and/or throw several hundred kilograms of explosives in the form of firewine casks without hindering their ability to move or fight effectively

They establish pretty quickly that Earth has more or less been as saved as it can be, and now you’re off on another quest for a variety of reasons. Some of the biome-specific variable quests I’ve encountered have been pretty neat and involved with the story of the worlds they occur in.

Which is a pretty strong deal compared to other full price titles, considering the base version of Remnant II is only $50 rather than $60. At $70 for the most premium version of the game, you’re getting the first year of DLC included with what’s already a great game.

I’m nearly 40 hours in, approaching what I think is…

I know a handful of folks that do this stuff on the side and most of them are professional working artists or else work in film/TV/entertainment in some capacity. But that might just be a side effect of my proximity to Hollywood.

Genuinely asking - do you have any reading material to dispute the assertion? I am about as far as you can get from crusading christian groups and I am all about supporting sex workers but this is the first time I’ve heard anyone dispute it who (presumably) did not have a financial interest in the sporting events in…

I can understand being on the fence about CDPR’s ability to follow through on the commitments their marketing campaigns and pre-launch press hustles make, but $30 for an expansion to a game like that seems perfectly reasonable. That’s exactly the kind of additional content I would be happy to pay $30 for. For the…

Yes. It’s not unhead of for various professional conventions to require offsite conduct agreements from vendors and exhibitors for the duration of the event. If I organize a convention with 28000 people and an exhibitor does an afterparty at the club down the street, people are still only there because I organized a…

I promise the ‘authorities’ don’t care that much. When a city hosts the superbowl, there is a documented and significant statistical increase in human trafficking in that city. Shitty sports fans want to pay for sex along with their game. This is well known and widely documented, but nobody shuts down the Superbowl.

Iron Gate’s idea of “we don’t have official mod support” seems way more generous and supportive than many developers who tout official mod support as a marketing line.

Is it fading? There are more extraction shooter titles being released or in development now than at any time I can think of unless you want to count stuff like dime-a-dozen clones from the DayZ era. None of them have yet found truly mainstream success. Hunt Showdown continues to defy the odds but likely doesn’t pull…

The game has been in some stage of pre-dev since at least 2010, for what it’s worth. 

Tarkov is one specific vision of a rapidly broadening genre though, and to date there really aren’t any AAA extraction shooter executions on the market. DMZ is cool, but it’s 100% a tacked on experiment now being ruined by explicit pay to win content. I’m not going to pretend I wouldn’t love to play a remaster or…