I think it has less to do with crafting and meeting quotas and more to do with encouraging minority populations to get into those industries to begin with, thus creating a more diverse hiring pool and giving employers less room to justify having an almost exclusively white and/or male work force.

And what’s wrong with…

No, you’re not alone. It doesn’t hurt any developer to make a game specifically for kids now and then. If you want people playing games twenty years from now, then you need people playing games right now when they’re young. There’s a reason why, even in the face of ubiquitous digital technology, hardcopy book sales…

I’m not saying that adulthood is without advantages, but considering that I use the most awesome thing about being an adult—being able to buy whatever I want without having to ask my parents for money and/or waiting for my birthday or Christmas to get new stuff—to retreat back into my childhood, I’m going to go with…

But I’d still have to see them die and I don’t think I can handle that.

I named the first horse I tamed Epona. It was only after that that I learned you could unlock the actual Epona from the amiibo. So, now I have two Eponas.

I have a third horse that I named Farosh, after the first dragon I found. Finding that dragon was such a memorable moment, and I spent of the day chasing down a…

Sadly, I never got the experience of a Blizzard manual. By the time I was gaming on the computer, their earlier games were in jewel cases. I did pick up Diablo II on release, but I don’t remember that manual being so hefty (it probably was; I had stopped reading manuals and just started diving into games at that…

I really miss instruction manuals. I understand why they’ve fallen out of fashion, but there were many games that I enjoyed the manual as much as the game itself. I remember the manual for the original Legend of Zelda being especially engrossing; it included the story of the game in narrative format (not just in…

Small bit of advice: if you just leave your Switch in sleep mode, the in-game timer on when your amiibos refresh won’t start. So, if you’re playing on Friday night and put it in sleep mode, then go back to the game on Sunday morning and try to scan your amiibos, you’ll get a message saying that the amiibo can’t be…

Despite shifting to primarily gaming on PC about 9 years ago, I’ve never played around much with mods. I really need to. This seems like a good opportunity to do so. I loved Civ V and am enjoying Civ VI, but the act of actually playing the game can feel like a chore.

So by your logic, we should just completely ignore that users seem to prefer Horizon: Zero Dawn?

In the UK, it sure did. It is noteworthy that Horizon had a two-day lead on BotW, yet Zelda still managed to finish second. In Japan, however, Zelda was the big seller. I couldn’t find any rankings or sales figures for either game in the US.

Also, depending on your definition of “doing well,” Horizon is the less…

I managed to get up that tower without fighting the guardians. I put on the Climber’s Bandana, which increases your climbing speed, and went for it. If you duck down on the ledges going up the tower, the Guardians can’t see you. I had to jump as I climbed and had a few close calls (either with my stamina running out…

I’ve had two Blood Moons. The first one I experienced actually spawned a boss right where I was standing. I was in the woods east of the Dueling Peaks when it happened. After the cutscence, there was a giant Stalkoblin RIGHT THERE. It was named and had a boss’ health bar.

Noped right out of there.

Playing this game with the mini-map off has made me a believer. I will never play a game with the mini-map on ever again.

What really makes this game work, more than anything, is that it doesn’t penalize you for exploring and taking risks. You can nope out of any combat encounter or find your way back to civilization if you get lost by fast-traveling from anywhere on the map, no waypoint or signposts needed. As long as you have enough…

You are a brave soul. I stick to just energy drinks and Mountain Dew as my gaming drugs, and even then only sparingly and just to stay awake to squeeze another couple of hours out of my evening. I’m on both anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds, so I have to be careful with both stimulants and depressants and CANNOT…

It’s not just a “punchable” face. It’s a “punch me” face. A punchable face is one which, should the need arise, I would feel no guilt whatsoever punching, but generally can get by without being punched. A punch me face is one that is actively begging to be punched without provocation.

Nah, they’ll have nothing to worry about. The way Trump will disarm the left will be by restricting guns from the mentally ill, and by mentally ill I mean literally everyone who is on medication for even the most moderate case of a mental/mood disorder. The next mass shooting we have, everybody will hop on the…

The order supposedly allows for refugees who are religious minorities, so in areas where Christians are the minorities (I would imagine most of the countries being targeted) they would be free and clear.

I’m pretty sure they think that Wikileaks were the good guys.