I’ve always said that the basic plotline of the prequels (good but immature hero is driven to extremes, turns to evil methods and then just plain evil) was done better and in a fraction of the time and budget by the initial Warcraft III campaign. And they only had workaday voice actors and blocky 2003 graphics at…

Tiny, touchy, and mobile is no way to go through Kinja, son.

Ah, so apparently Dan is a financial wizard. I mean, he had to be good at *something*.

“At some point the viewer will want to see the other 15 minutes of the 5 minute clip they ‘enjoyed’”

Yet when it costs more by a factor of literally *infinity*, all of these things aren’t going to get people off of Pornhub.

This entry sums up why all the “ethical porn” efforts in the world are largely moot when free porn is so readily available.

Strange gray area my ass. Your options (as a straight male) are either adequate stuff that’s free, or adequate to good stuff that’s varying degrees of not free (and usually primarily pitched to people who aren’t straight males). Until free porn’s quality dips so low that it doesn’t get the job done for it’s primary…

And the Twin Cities. Like most of the country, the urban areas are markedly further left than the rest of the state.

Jimmy Carter beat brain cancer at 91, and still helps build houses in his spare time. He once walked into a malfunctioning goddamn nuclear reactor to repair it:

More to the point, they will be solved and reduced to “click here for free stuff” simplicity within days by the modding community.

That’s why I never sent mine on any missions until I could equip it with Unsinkable. Because nothing says “fun gameplay” like giving you something that’s too awesome to use until you complete a giant grind.

The designers were butthurt that garrisons were quickly solved and turned into a free loot spigot, so they *by god* were going to keep shipyards from suffering the same fate. So they made them an unfun slog where the best approach was to get accept 80-90% success rates and pray RNJesus smiled on you.

Declining, certainly. Dying, in the sense that we’re all succumbing to entropy, yes. The planet is “worse off than it was just a moment ago” in that we’re closer to the sun going red giant, but would you really describe it as “dying”?

...is this sarcasm? I’d consider any game (MMO or whatever) that’s turning a substantial profit to be “successful”, and if an MMO can’t turn a profit with a million subs...it has bigger issues.

Love it when haters call an incredibly populous and profitable MMO “dying” because they don’t like the direction the game has taken.

If 5 million subscribers is “dying”, I can only assume every other subscription MMO is “buried”.

Yeah, like Wonder Woman, and...um...

If Blizzard finds a way to completely fix *lag*...they’ll never need to make another game again, because everyone will want their magical omnicompatible perfect server software and hardware.

I remember that. I never knew how much of it was teenagers playing the game 80 hours a week and how much was straight-up hacking, but it sure made me never want to play it online again.

Only real drawback to that is that most players will default to offline (because who wants to make their game harder to access?), will dip a toe into multiplayer to find it overrun with hacks and cheaters, then will never touch it again. That was my experience with D2.