“at least right now”

I think there are like three of them and then the game basically admits defeat on that plot thread.

The UK isn’t polarized on the issue, that’s a complete misunderstanding of the situation.

I think there are more recent examples than Merlin, and I would dispute that the archetype is entirely absent. I think the big problem is actually religion, particularly Protestantism, but not just that. Certainly the way Christianity has operated in the West has been extremely oppositional to the “Wise Thinker”…

Just FYI, you generally don’t pay taxes on settlements like that in the US. So whilst it’s still shitty and I agree “not worth it”, it’d just be the fees from the lawyer, not the tax man. And I agree even at the original $5m, depending on the injuries, that might not be enough for the lifelong care likely required…

Yeah the lack of a contract or even any consideration there would really blow that idea up completely.

“That there’s no way that they could be this clueless over how this was going to received.”

“Just a more politically correct coat of paint on something games have been doing as long as they’ve had character customization.”

Yeah it’s absolutely just bare-faced lying to make out 2077 had particularly bad writing by videogame standards. Dialogue-wise it actually has particularly good writing by videogame standards (better than a lot of recent movies, honestly, but that’s not a high bar right now). But plot-wise some questions could be…

“I don’t think I’ve ever played a game that was more terribly written”

What’s really big with Cloud of Daggers is how you can make the action economy work for you - because you can do insane out-of-turn damage with it. You cast it on some enemies, they take initial damage. Their turn starts, they take damage. Another enemy has to move through the cloud (always best on chokepoints), more…

“NPCs don’t care in the slightest”

“I can easily see it leading to a number of games simply taking their game off sale once its no longer being actively supported.”

What’s genuinely shocking is that Unity believe they can apparently completely unilaterally make absolutely vast changes to their rules, without consultation, without real warning, and severely to the detriment of the people using their product. Even if they get you to sign something saying that, that’s not exactly…

With climate change a we're probably going to all be in beach huts, but not in a good way, sadly.

“The Wheel of Time series? I agree the books needed a lot of changing but what Judkins has done there is nothing short of stunningly dumb creative homicide. He’s thrown out the baby, the bathwater and the friggin’ tub for that matter.”

No, you don’t need to do that.

I think there is too, in theory. I think there issue has kind of been trying to hard on the plots and somehow ending up with a lot of pretty bad plots, but they’ve been nailing the characters. Even Moon Knight, which was a mess, I loved Isaacs, Hawke, Calamawy (hope she’s in more things) and their characters.

One suspects he is full MGTOW with this attitude.

It’s not a “bunch of bullshit”, dude, you need to grow up and understand that other people exist.