Technically an emoticon.

They don’t stop for anybody. You have to jump. 

Art of Manliness some time back offered that instead of saying “be careful,” to say “have a plan” when your kids are doing risky things. I like that because kids are going to find a way to take risks and it’s good to encourage them to think things through in a way that shows them you have some confidence in their…

Eh, this was clearly much more for himself than it was for her lol.

“has any single dollar I’ve ever spent not gone to reward assholes?”

The main villain of the show (the Night King) doesn’t even exist in the books

I can definitely accept that. It’s just that from my perspective, the “Metaverse” is intertwined with Web 3.0, and the Web 3.0 aspects of the Metaverse are the more important ones and the ones that are receiving the most amount of effort to develop. 

It’s been a week or two since someone has dunked on a Crypto Bro with a shitty NFT avatar in my timeline. I hope that means the craze is over but I doubt I’m that lucky.

Find a wand and use the “Water Veil” spell, no matter how shitty your stats are for it. It will half the damage you take from Flamelurker when active. Equip the fire-resisting rings and whatever armor you have with the best fire resistance stats. Summon a few friends and keep casting Water Veil. You’ll find it’s…

The best way to fight Flamelurker is to play around in other areas, make progress there, and come back with better equipment and gear a number of hours later, when he is much more manageable. He seems designed to punish people who aren’t disposed to try other levels when you hit a steep difficulty slope.

There is no Demon’s Souls boss that is even 5% as shit as Bed of Chaos.

No, Flamelurker is just a cunt. I’d suggest grabbing the Thief Ring and farting at him with Poison Mist or just leaving him for now and moving on to Dark Souls 1 if you have interest in the genre.

Use magic.  Flamelurker is ridiculously weak to magic, and you can hit him from range and kill him pretty easily. 

Yeah, because refusing to shut the door on a country that wanted closer ties to the West is imperialistic. The vast majority of Ukrainians hated having close relations with Russia. That’s why they overthrew their government in 2014. If Ukraine wants to join NATO, it should ultimately be up to them, not up to current…

I realize that there’s no point to responding, but here we go.

Co-signed, especially since a lot of the “whataboutisms” look to be originating from Russian troll/bot farms to try to sow discord and lesson support for Ukraine. 

Eh, this is what I’ve come to expect from games journalists these days. I mean, perish the thought that someone calls out Russia’s war crimes without the old “But-but-but what about what the US has done in the past?”

Holy crap, can you please not feed into the whataboutism? At least not yet?

The thing is that video game hardware is 100% a sunk cost. No one makes any money on selling the system. The companies often sell them for a loss to get them at a price point that gets them to move. And the margins for stores selling them are razor thin. That is why they always really try to get you to buy more then…

Ugh. That must have hurt at the time.  I myself wasn’t affected because I couldn’t even afford an SNES >_<.  It was pure bliss once I got one though.  16 bit sequels of Zelda, Mario, Gradius, Turtles and Contra