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Good to see Call of Duty is finally starting to catch up with Battlefield in the convoluted naming department.

but the thing about making exceptions is that once you make one, everyone thinks their particular situation merits another.

Makes sense. If you’re gonna sell the game by saying “other players ARE the NPC” then you should allow players the options to play like NPCs. Let me be able to give other players quests while you're at it!

Lie to my face again. I dare you.

I’d argue that Destiny’s main conceit is about becoming stronger and taking on bigger, badder cosmic forces, not necessarily about becoming an unstoppable god-killing machine. The problem I’m seeing is that some people seem to be conflating the power fantasy of Destiny with “powerful guns that let me stomp bosses in…

The big ones are the Epic steals Steam data and Tencent’s holdings.

*Some* games are better late. There are also a lot of classic games that just haven’t ages as well or are extremely clunky compared to more modern games. Like, my time playing Chrono Trigger decades after release was boss, but System Shock 2 has a pretty archaic control scheme and baffling menus. Without the nostalgia…

The Pokemon universe is a nightmare.

I don’t know about Japanese, but in French I think it was allways “il” which is the masculine pronoun. The word “Pokemon” was also masculine (le Pokemon) except I think when dealing with a specific female Pokemon? It's been a while since I played thise games in French.

I think maybe that was a misunderstanding. Bulbasaur isn’t genderless, but the Pokemon games and animes do usually say “it” instead of gendered pronouns when dealing with Pokemon, especially wild ones. Gendered pronouns are really rarely used for whatever reason when dealing with Pokemon, even on Pokemon that are…

Well, about 75% of teachers are educated women, so there’s that explanation... kidding (kinda).

Just gonna note that FMA created an original character who ended up as a big evil cyborg that could fire lasers from his mouth. Do with that information what you will.

Oh God, that The Flash example. I had to stop keeping track of how many times the villains were able to just...run away. They manage to delay the Flash for 30 seconds and get out of his field of vision and it’s just “damn, they got away.”

What if the whole revenge fixation was every cocoon Pokemon’s M.O., but Cascoon is just the worst at doing it secretly? I mean, do you really think Beedrill wouldn’t try to mess up everybody who hurt it in it’s weaker evolutions? Cascoon is just the only one who says the “when I evolve I swear I’m going to kill all of…

I forget who said it, but the saying was something like “If you want to know a what a company is really thinking, listen to the lawyers and not the PR team.”

Super Mario Marker

I swear, this one dude who must have walked through a venomous snake pit every day paid for half of my armory.

I felt the same way. I ended up selling the game about 20 hours in once it became apparent I wasn’t enjoying the game and the game wasn’t going to go out of it’s way to get me to enjoy any of it. I ended up watching a Let’s Play in the background while doing other work and that was waaaay better.