The problem is that basically all of Ashley’s growth that addresses the racist shit happens after Virmire.

God it’s like a nails on a chalkboard fused with a cracking noise, condensed into a single moment of terror and hate that’s louder than a jet engine.

On the flip side, the sound of a pin going through an egg shell is one of the worst noises in the world, and is absolutely not worth it.

I play on the PC and still prefer to play XIV with a controller. Feels really nice, actually. The only thing that is more annoying is raid healing, until you’re really good at the alliance-targeting system.

You actually inadvertently brought up another question of how/if to make these games - when.

Youtube content creators are overwhelmingly not the metric for these things. The $2000 they spent wasn’t JUST for Klee, it’s also for outrageously powerful gear, and more power ups for other characters, etc.

Most of this conversation about Genshin truly does seem to be a larger conversation about RPGs in general, with some conversations more specific to Eastern RPGs space (predominately JPRGs).

SERIOUSLY.

Every so often I see recommendations to use vinegar+baking soda for cleaning but it confuses me.

I’m gonna guess that static screenshots don’t do it justice. Because I can sooooorta tell that there’s something special about it, now that you point it out? But the depth and effect of the scenery mostly eludes me.

I actively play games across many consoles, frequent Kotaku, own a mac and an iphone..... and I had to google what Apple Arcade even was.

To be blunt, that’s not a realistic picture of American culture writ large. Yes, we have a substantial number of micro-cultures predominately within immigrant enclaves, but we have precious little in the way of shared cultural values.

Ahhhh, I gotcha.

That is not nationalism, though...

EDIT: I’m gonna repost this with actual art references to cards.

I don’t really know how to help you on this one.

I’d rather just jump off a bridge than go through that with American drivers, myself included.

Roundabouts take up SUBSTANTIALLY more space than an intersection does, and since the US has the luxury of not being remotely as beholden to 13th century civic planning, most of it is largely set up as close to a grid system as possible.

What I really wish is that they had an open world mode, too, where they coded behaviors for the Pokemon and so you’d need to understand how they behaved, what made them skittish, etc.

The issue isn’t that they are “immature”