William Zabka’s ability to walk the tightrope of “Playing a guy who absolutely sucks” and “despite yourself, you kind of want to root for him” has been the single best thing about the entire series.

While I’m sure the fake meat alternative is fine, I’m personally of the opinion that the Panda Express Orange Chicken is already ruined by virtue of it being way too sweet.

The appeal of Assassin’s Creed has never been the modern metaplot, the appeal of Assassin’s Creed has been “we pick interesting periods in history and turn them into a theme park for you to mess around in.”   Nothing else really matters- the controls have always been pretty bad. They could drop the Abstergo stuff…

I mean, a big part of why Assassin’s Creed works but Watch_Dogs and the Division kind of didn’t is the aesthetic appeal of being a tourist in an interesting time and place in history.  That’s not really a phenomenon that can be abstracted into something you can repeat in a series of games with a different premise.

Black Flag is the one to start with.  It’s a refined formula, it’s fun, it requires basically no knowledge of the setting or the metaplot, and you get to be a pirate.  The main criticism of the game is “it doesn’t have much to do with the rest of the franchise.”

I played all the ones that were on the 360 (so 1 through Rogue) and I picked up the ancient ones (Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla), are Syndicate and Unity worth it?  I sort of get the sense that the reason Origins was such a breath of fresh air was that the franchise needed to change some things.

The fact that the well-publicized MJF contract issues became part of the storyline makes me wonder whether part of this is a work. AEW does have TV contracts coming up and nothing’s going to juice ratings like “the backstage beef is so hot, people are throwing chairs and EVPs are getting suspended.”

I mean, ultimately the way this gets done is “Microsoft agrees to continue releasing games they publish on Sony platforms if Sony releases games they publish on Microsoft platforms”.

I guess “Kiwifarms as Russian state media” makes a certain kind of sense.

It feels like the point of hiring sensitivity readers is that they keep you from publishing stuff like this so you never need to retract it.  If you're actually printing the stuff that makes you embarrassed perhaps you need to hire more sensitivity readers or just replace your editors.

I just read "PC exclusive" as meaning "we have no idea how to make this work with a controller."  Something that needs 2 dozen hotkeys available, for example.

I’m going to tinker with your flatbread pizza sauce recipe. I’m going to remove the bay leaf after simmering before blending. Nobody wants to eat bay leaves, no matter how small you chop them up.

Yeah, “people who menstruate” and “women” are not subsets of each other in either direction. In contexts where you are interested in addressing the specific biological process (say, providing menstrual supplies for people who need them) it’s better to just use language that indicates that you’re addressing the…

I own this game because it was part of an Arkane bundle that was cheaper than just buying the Dishonored games, and I didn't actually have any intention of playing it since I thought it was "just another shooter".  Maybe I should give it a chance.

I played the Last of Us, and thought it was pretty good, but never understood why anybody would want to revisit it.  Then they made a DLC, a sequel, and now they're doing a remake and a TV series.

Here’s the thing about “people who menstruate” is that if what you’re talking about is actually specific to the biological process in question (like, say, you’re a marketing executive at Kotex) then whatever you’re saying isn’t really relevant to women who are post-menopause, women who are pre-menarche, women who have…

As a long-time Dungeon Master, the first thing you do when you set up a group of nested tables, is you try to figure out what the worst possible combination of results would be and figure out if that's something you can live with.

Really, they should have gone with “Benoit Blanc has a completely different accent in every film and this is never explained or commented on.”

I really don’t like this whole trend of “make things taste like hotdogs that are not, themselves, hotdogs”.  The hotdog is already scraping the bottom of the sausage barrel.

I feel like “How late are you open” is sometimes a legitimate question. Sure, sometimes it means “I’m coming, please accommodate me” but sometimes you just want to know if you can make it to a place before it closes and “you can’t” is a valid answer.