I get what you’re saying, and I agree, but I think there’s a middle ground there.

Yeah, it’s extremely disheartening. And a huge part of it is that numbers start becoming meaningless at this level. Yeah, $50 million is “a lot.” But it’s relative. It’s not actually a lot if we’re talking about punitive measures to correct behaviors at a company that was recently purchased for 69 billion, and which…

I’m actively looking to buy a new tv stand and hating having to think about how to house my PS5 in one. It’s such an eyesore buying a nice new piece of furniture feels horrible knowing that it’s going on/in there...

This comments section is missing the point.

I interpreted that to mean something different, and that’s entirely my mistake, so apologies for that 

Paladins in 5E don’t need to follow any gods. Instead the idea is that they have such dedication to an oath they have taken that it gives them magical power.

it honestly also makes their spellcasting modifier be Charisma make more sense, since it’s about their power being based on externalizing their intense beliefs, rather than any specific magical or religious study.

In 5E Paladins receive their powers from the strength of their Oath.

I have one that’s drifting and one that isn’t.

I think all that is correct, but I think the core issue is even more basic, in a way. Like yeah - the need to explain everything is a general weakness that has become a relative weakness in a lot of larger IPs, especially since it’s so hard to balance making it interesting enough to be worthwhile but not so convoluted…

Cataclysm remains the real turning point where WoW’s story became terrible, because the plot choices they made were just outrageously contrived.

They never actually use that label trans, but that’s mostly because everything is always from Chandler’s POV, and Chandler refuses to recognize her choices. It is made clear that she is living life as a woman, and that it’s not just a drag persona that she adopts for stage. We never see her dressed as a man, and the…

lmao well played

It actually is a bit of a dog whistle term now.

This is what has gotten frustrating about modern conversations around identity politics.

Yeah, considering these consoles are typically sold at cost or at a loss? There’s only so much wiggle room on the pricing.

Someone else gave me a notification on this post, but now I see this and I have to know - where does pin-through-an-egg fall for you on the no-sound to omg-death meter?

I mean, Kotaku had 14.3 million visitors in September and their bounce rate, average time spent, and average number of pages visited are all decent. So I’d hardly call that a pretty small readership, and “dozens” of people getting annoyed by it even remotely significant.

People not tailoring their behavior to your specific preferences is not trolling.

Sure, it’d be great for Microsoft to buy Nintendo. It’ll sure fix that whole, not releasing outside their own platform thing.