Sure, I agree with that.

Sorry, I misspoke: I don't mean it's all a relationship game "should be," I mean it's all a relationship game is. There's no "relationship" here at all, any more than an image of a woman brings an actual physical woman into the room with me.

I haven't played the game, so maybe I'd experience it very differently than I'm picturing it here. But there's no relationship here, right? There isn't even a simulacrum of a relationship, not really. It may or may not be a cue towards my feeling some shadow of the way I feel when I'm starting a new romantic…

There was a game from 2002 called SuperPower that gave you full control over everything, including nukes. Me being the sage and mature young man that I was, I fired off every nuke I had at everyone my first game in and watched the world burn. The resulting text scrawl made an impression on me enough that I still…

I most certainly do draw that line between me, the player, and my character. Otherwise I might as well be guilty of desiring murder for playing an FPS, cheating on my wife for playing Mass Effect, etc. etc. etc. The whole point is that I'm distracting myself with activities that I don't normally do.

I could have listed an awful lot of them, although I get why they're not for everyone. "We used to want to change the world in brotherhood, us two / But now my friend I only want to save it, from you" is one of my favorite lines of anything, anywhere: movie, music, poetry, whatever. They've been delivering the goods…

Yeah, it really is. I felt slightly embarrassed that I beat a game, watched the end credits, listened to the music, freaked out and became a Band Fan. But the fact is that that song is pretty much everything I like in music: intense, restrained, driving, beautiful, dark and complex.

Yeah, it really is. I felt slightly embarrassed that I beat a game, watched the end credits, listened to the music, freaked out and became a Band Fan. But the fact is that that song is pretty much everything I like in music: intense, restrained, driving, beautiful, dark and complex.

I think Cash actually has what Reznor wanted to appropriate, in a way. Age, experience, gravity, whatever. I don't mean that to be unfair to Reznor as a person, I just mean that when he used to get overwrought, it was in a very "young" sort of way. That was not a problem for Cash.

Welp, time to add M83 to my list.

Good lord man, there's so many! I mean, the list is like every single track from "High Expectations/Low Results," "M4" and "Left Here Alone." (I wasn't blown away by Feel.Love.Thinking.Of when I heard it on Spotify, though I'm sure I'll buy it eventually, and I haven't picked up Ostalgia yet. That will probably…

"Oculus" - Project 86
"Crashing Down" - Common Children
"The Gilded Hand" - Radical Face
"God Went North" - Nothing More

Almost all of these events have me reaching for my LRM boat. It's just not even a challenge compared to all that "walking" and "shooting" crap the game otherwise requires of me. My lurm boat is an Orion IIC with 60 LRMs, 1800 rounds, Artemis, etc. It just… Every night when I'm trying to get my win for the daily…

Congrats man! I haven't even bothered with the higher-tier skillups yet because of the cost of three of the same type of mech (especially when I only really need one of them and don't even have a full lance of IS and Clan each yet.) The 3xUAC/20s have been making me not play as carefully, in a way. It's nice to…

Interesting! I hadn't thought of it that way. I actually liked the contrast, both in personality and in design, from the other characters. For me, she broke up the samey-ness of Attractive People In Scifi Suits. (She also irritated me a little, if I'm honest—I didn't use her much in my main teams.) But you're…

I can't say that, but I get why she'd hit someone that way. An inked-up, basically-naked, totally hot bald chick with Ultimate Psychic Power (tm) who's, like, totally badass and totally damaged, with attitude to the max, dude. They invest in her enough, and she stands out from the rest of the team enough, that it…

Finally picked up Transformers: Devastation and it is easily my favorite Transformers game so far. I get why Bay went the route he did for a live-action movie, but I found that shiny, hypercomplex design just super busy and overwhelming in terms of gameplay. This is a whole heaping lot cleaner, and better for it in…

Without (remotely) including some of the discussions going on here, I fully agree with you. I have a friend whose mother burned down his house to murder his sister, and given the gossipy small town they lived in, the media circus (and private emotional shitstorm) that followed was probably pretty predictable. But…

Thank you for sharing your experience here. I have no conspiracy theories to share or axes to grind on this point, but I'm thankful to read your experience with this material.

Even allowing for the responses below that Coppola and Marcia helped him far more than the names on the credits might suggest, there's still something fundamentally different about old George Lucas compared to young George Lucas. Hell, young George Lucas spoke out against movies being re-edited by their creators…