Watching Biden take on Trump over this past month has made me really regret the fact that he chose not to run, because if it was him against Trump now in the general election, I don’t think it’d be close enough for any progressive to break a sweat.

I’d feel more sympathy for No Man’s Sky’s devs if they didn’t brazenly lie about the features of their game *even after it was released.*

Every generation of human beings matures with its own culture, its own worldview, its own perspective...and once those perspectives are set in stone in adulthood, they’re very difficult (if not impossible) to change no matter the evidence presented. That’s probably my number one reason to oppose unnaturally prolonging…

I can’t believe all the grotesque details coming out today isn’t the front page story on ‘mainstream’ news websites like CNN right now. Is Penn State just bribing a few influential journalists? This is, what, *150* John Does? It’s fucking huge. It’s utterly disgraceful. We need some investigative journalists to dig to…

I’m replaying Suikoden 2 for about the fifth or sixth time as we speak. (Just recruited Tengaar and Hix and rescued a certain someone in Greenhill.)

I don’t really mind folks preferring Tifa over Aeris, I just find it interesting how the perception of the two heroines’ personality is driven so much by superficial things like their clothing and fighting styles as opposed to their actual in-game personalities.

Aeris’ sudden personality change in Advent Children aside, I always find the Tifa > Aeris arguments advanced by FFVII fans ridiculous as Tifa is often portrayed by her fans as assertive and independent when she is, in fact, extremely submissive and co-dependent in the game (she basically lies to Cloud about his own…

This is the kind of post that has the unfortunate side-effect of appearing to legitimize the idiotic arguments advanced by all the MRA assholes who are convinced that every decent feminist on Jezebel is a raging misandrist hellbent on blaming men for every tragedy imaginable.

...Wait a minute, wait a minute.

I appreciate this direction for Kratos as a character, as it allows Kratos to mature alongside the audience who enjoyed his games as angsty teenagers and ‘rebellious’ college students a decade or so ago. Now those same guys are approaching fatherhood themselves, and certainly the appeal of rampant violence and gore is…

I am not afraid of spiders, but I am afraid of many other kinds of bugs (is there a ‘phobia’ term for that?) and as a result, I find myself actually enjoying the company of spiders.

The only thing worse than the father’s pain is how the killer only looks mildly amused by what’s unfolding around him.

Actually, Euron strikes me as pretty par for the course when it comes to analyzing the morality of charismatic historical leaders.

As a progressive guy I’m not really sure how I’d even be capable of handling any unsubstantiated sexual allegations towards a close personal friend any differently. I mean, it’s kind of an awful situation to be in: Do I throw a close personal friend under the bus without firm evidence of his guilt, or do I throw my…

I really need to find some excuse to visit Japan someday.

It *better* be coming out for the PS4 soon.

I’ll make the following completely random guesses regarding the future of the series if that’s true:

Donald Trump is either an unapologetic racist personally, or he is comfortable manipulating racist white bigots into supporting him by claiming to mirror their policy positions.

Ah, interesting. I think I tended to view the ‘Beta’ worldline as the ‘original’ because Okabe (from the prime line) is familiar with John Titor asserting (a decade or so prior) that WW3 would happen in that original timeline. The status of Suzuha’s time machine once she makes the jump to the rooftop is also similar…

I’m confused by the assertion that Okabe’s relationships with his friends might be drastically altered in the WW3 worldline. Maybe I misunderstood Steins;Gate, but...isn’t the WW3 worldline technically the *original* worldline — the one that exists before Okabe creates any divergences with the Phonewave? If so, isn’t…