I don’t follow boxing, MMA or sports in general (I’m here from a Kotaku link!), but this was just a fantastic read.

I’m guessing that’s a new dodge function (or a special slotted Materia, since there’s “Lv. 1" by the prompt). And look, there’s a prompt over Cloud’s head while he’s dodging missiles. I suspect the bars start filling up once your ATB is full, so you’re essentially using delays in your actions as a resource.

Me and my friends sometimes do a modern take on the same activity and communally go through horror games via Steam streaming and voice comms.

Thank you! I mean, I have no plans to jump into RE7 yet; I’ve been wanting to try SOMA and Alien: Isolation, but I always end up convincing myself out of it. A similarly skittish friend of mine managed to get through two Dead Space games and Amnesia by streaming them to my group of friends, and it was a riot. Still…

Interestingly, it’s addressed in an ass-backwards way - Mordin, when talking about genetic engineering (his loyalty mission on Tuchanka in ME2), says humans are more genetically diverse than other species. According to him, that makes us better test subjects when studying genetic mutations. I guess every species had a…

I keep hearing that Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju is this perfect, life-affirming, transcendental, miraculous masterpiece of modern animation and of visual media in general. Too bad it’s about... err... traditional japanese one-man plays? Or something? I generally don’t consume “important” media if the subject matter…

Something I would like to observe about the guys constantly slapping their “female friend” - it’s a behavior that society teaches guys to use against everyone, from a very early age. As a boy, every interaction, even among close friends, had these competitive overtones, almost like a sparring match: always prod for…