Yep. This isn’t “we’re making a cosmetic change to look like we care” so much as it is “this guy saddled us with a whole lot of baggage that we do NOT need or want, and still splashing his name all over everything as the name of a hero is kinda gross.”

What is and isn’t considered worth development cycles when it comes to women in video games is always so telling.

Hell, I’m getting an associate producer credit on an upcoming TV series just because I threw a couple thousand bucks at its Kickstarter. (And I very nearly told them to leave my name off of it, because I felt very silly. Still do.)

I used to work at an office that named all of its conference rooms after rivers. This meant we had meetings booked in Amazon all the time. Not the company. Just a room. Clear as mud.

About 80% of my frustration with those enemies is feeling like I’m fighting the terrain instead of the monsters. So many slopes and bad angles. So many slopes I can’t even SEE properly. So much accidental climbing. Gnah.

For me, the biggest issue with the difficulty curve in Genshin, combat-wise anyway (and it’s impossible to ignore the combat), is that it takes forever now to level up characters far enough to be useful. The game wants you to collect all the characters, but then you have to grind like hell on repetitive, uninteresting…

Remember when the FFXV English-language localization team (and/or the cast, because I would not put it past those guys) went so far off the reservation that they managed to get a Kellyanne Conway joke into the DLC? (Alternative facts, indeed.) LEAN INTO THE MEMES.

Agreed, and I’m getting deeply, deeply worn out with the amount of sniping that happens at people of my economic class and lower that we’re still so “privileged” that apparently none of our struggles matter. Does systemic white privilege exist? Yes. Are there hierarchies in absolutely every social group you can…

They do have an entire channel called Hallmark Movies & Mysteries where an awful lot of murder happens, although it tends to be mostly* in the cozy-mystery mold. Still, I repeat: LOTS OF MURDER.

the OLED screen is markedly brighter and seemingly whiter than the older console’s LCD

Who wouldn’t like to see ‘Muppets Alice in Wonderland’

The Best Buy closest to me that was participating was in Bellevue. Y’know. Next door to Redmond. Home to companies like Valve, Bungie, Sucker Punch, Pokemon International, and a big-ass chunk of Microsoft. So draw your own conclusions about the local population and the hobbies of same.

I hereby dub her CPUlianna.

Spoilers are sometimes very, very useful, and being able to discuss the story in detail is crucial to getting at anything of any significance. Excessive spoilerphobia strangles real discussion and it drives me up the damn wall.

Speaking of Mr. Green, Michael McKean tweeted his own answer to this question today:

Having been to the Marin County Civic Center many times in my life, I recognized that building immediately and had to spend an interesting few minutes bashing the idea into my head of rockets launching off from that location. ;)

I heard that in my head before I even pressed play.

the “All Media Should Be For Me” attitude

Speaking as a certified old person* who’s got a few decades of media consumption under her belt and has already gone through enough rounds of “nope, I really don’t want to see content like that again,” I ask only that people make content warnings clear and do so BEFORE the point of purchase, ‘cause some of us are just…

The other content warning at the beginning of the game, incidentally, is about getting text messages from your character’s mom. It gives you the option to turn them off entirely if you’re not up for that for whatever reason. (There are, of course, many possible reasons.) I initially sort of winced my way past the…