Yeah, I picked up the first season mostly because I was playing the game obsessively so what the hell. But this season? Nah.

A wild Black Panther appears!

Am I ready for it? Sure am! By which I mean I deleted my account I barely used. I don’t need to be around to watch that hellsite die.

Once you're further up the chain he's way less useful. And the fact that he wipes out EVERY 1-cost card can make him a bit of a liability!

Every card has a place with the right strategy. Mantis pairs with Collector. The Guardians are useful against zoo/spam decks, etc. Even the Rock has its uses (play one on the DC location!)

This is just the most visible manifestation of a much larger problem.

Yeah, of all the 80s cheese this game throws at you, its insistence on naming quests after songs is the most tiresome.

NEVAH!

This is almost certainly a big box retailer fuck up. So some poor kid who read a form wrong might get fired but that's about it.

I mean I'm glad it had good writing (because while I loved the first set of games the writing was terrible) but also if you played the first game all the way through, you know it's not a twisty thrill ride. I will say there was ONE surprise in Dad of Boy that I liked, but God knows what people new to the series made…

“Bynx’s poor opponent certainly didn’t, because they snapped midway through the match.”

“a very clever narrative string”

See your rank? Cute isn’t it? Ignore it!

So is this like a body takeover horror story except it's corporations, and GameStop is becoming Spencer Gifts?

Ironically the Snap mechanic is the only thing that doesn't really work. Whenever somebody snaps I know I'm about to whip their asses.

I suspect this is just the start. Microsoft has essentially given up on the idea of console exclusives and it sure looks like Sony is about to do the same. Once platform barriers drop you’re really going to see some shit.

I read two really good books about Islam recently “It’s Not About The Burqua” and “Mohammed: Forty Introductions,” and one really strong takeaway is that religion as found in holy texts is often very different, sometimes totally different, from how cultures interpret and apply that religion, and that culture takes…

I will bet money a lot of these whining adults have never been more than two hundred miles from their homes, let alone even left the state.

My dad covered public meetings as a journalist for years, and it is HYSTERICAL how people think some dolt (rarely a parent) whose ability to be outraged by literally anything at a school board meeting is a new phenomenon. What’s different is the guy behind the Federalist Society handed these assholes a bullhorn, which…

Grown adults bullying a child in a public meeting because they literally can’t be bothered to understand what’s going on is a disgrace.