I’d argue it doesn’t matter as much. And that was the real problem. So many of the choices in the franchise were nuanced and made you really consider your character, and how the choice would ripple out to the rest of the game world. But then, instead of having those choices culminate in something important, the ending…

No.

It defined it as a race/nationality as well as a religion.  

Excellent piece.  

All well and good, but it doesn’t change the fact that Trump’s motivation here is not to protect Jewish people.  It’s to smother dissent for conservative support of Israel.  

I’m not denying that there are anti-semites protesting against Israel, or that many protests against Israel are motivated by anti-semitism.

That’s as may be, but consider the source of this executive order, and ask yourself what that source’s motivation is most likely to be: prevent anti-semitism even as he continues to embolden it, or silence dissent against the conservative support of Israel?

I have no idea what you’re actually trying to say.  

I’m not sure you meant to reply to me because I didn’t make any mention of the separation of church and state (which, as your link shows, is really more of a principle put forth by Thomas Jefferson, not something that is officially enshrined in law beyond the limited outline in the First Amendment).

Only in this time, with this White House could a pastor who once said that Jews are going to hell be one of the speakers at a White House Hanukkah reception, which included the signing of an executive order aimed at tackling anti-Semitism on college campuses.

The most frustrating part, to me, is that they had a great opportunity to either change engines or develop a new one between Oblivion and Skyrim. Instead they polished up the Gamebryo engine a bit and renamed it Creation Engine, and went chugging right ahead with all the same bugs and gameplay issues (Bethesda still…

It absolutely flabbergasts me that Bethesda has been developing on the same creaky old engine they’ve been using since at least Morrowind for two decades.

That’s not at all the reception I remember.

Doom and Wolfenstein were published by Bethesda, not developed by them.  

I like New Vegas in terms of the writing, but my biggest disappointment with FO4 was that it’s world wasn’t as interesting to explore as FO3's, and they eliminated a lot of the good role playing mechanics.

Dressed and groomed like a plumber. Mario is a fucking professional.  

How exactly were they “on a roll” after Fallout 4?  Wasn’t it pretty widely viewed as a step backward from the previous games in the series?

It pioneered the the voxel art style years before Minecraft came out

I’ve played it, and I disagree.  I felt like a big lumbering doofus, and I didn’t enjoy it.  

That may be so, but that “feeling” is the experience.  I don’t want to “feel” like a big lumbering doofus.