You aren’t old, that’s just the MvC style. It’s always been a game filled with too many colors, too fast animation, and too much stuff happening at once. I’ve never been able to get into it because of it’s hard-to-follow frantic pacing. When you’re the one doing the stuff, it’s a little easier to follow what’s…

It definitely does. I learned to play in high school and was in a band for a while, but adult life didn’t allow much room for musicianship. When I started feeling like music was a part of me that I didn’t want to lose, I picked this up to try and get my chops back in a more fun way than plucking around in silence. It…

It definitely does. I learned to play in high school and was in a band for a while, but adult life didn’t allow much…

I actually had success once with a campaign where I gave the players pre-generated backstories. There were two reasons I think it worked - first, the backstories were very light on detail; more like “character hooks” that allowed (and encouraged) lots of improvisation and filling in blanks. So it gave them a bit of…

Boo.

I’d never suggest we get it perfect, because we’ve got some major issues at home. But I think there are a lot of ways we’re demonstrably more progressive than a lot of the world. It’s important that we never let ourselves off the hook and work to prevent hypocrisy at home, but it’s equally important we don’t lose…

And nobody’s saying Japan can’t make this kind of pervy nonsense. The article only said the author (and others) are tired of seeing it. That’s all. This isn’t a censorship thing, it’s a “can we please have a little variety for a change” thing.

On some points, sure. Live and let live. On others, I don’t care what your cultural heritage is - you’re wrong. The American South used cultural heritage to defend slavery, they were wrong. Religious groups use tradition to defend the subjugation of women and minority groups, and they’re also wrong. When we’re talking…

So, are you as concerned about the proliferation of violence in games in our society, then?

Fictional characters are a reflection of our society. We write the world we want to see, or the world as we see it. If a society’s fiction tends to portray characters a certain kind of way, it says that society tends to see its citizens a certain kind of way. So it isn’t at all a stretch to look at one as a proxy of…

I disagree. Sure, some stuff falls under “live and let live.” Probably a lot of it. But there are things that are just wrong and no amount of cultural heritage can defend. The sexualization of minors, the abuse of women, the mistreatment of minorities - if a country is engaged in this kind of shit, I don’t care how…

Same. Took me 3 reads to see it the way he meant it to be seen.

THANK YOU, HERO.

DA2 is the best DA game and one of my top 5 Bioware games of all time. It’s a fascinating sort of litmus test for gamers; why they liked or hated it tells you a lot about why they play games at all.

Super-duper hype for that Valiant series. It’s bringing back all the old love for X-Men Evolution, and I’m really excited to see how it turns out. No brand launch has been as consistently solid and entertaining, book-for-book, as Valiant. I’m so glad I jumped from being perpetually disappointed and cynical about…

Damn... that boost in speed would be nice, but I don’t know if it’s worth $70 when I’d mostly be paying for 4k/HDR content I don’t use or care about. Maybe if a sale cuts that down below $50 I’ll take a swing and see.

I wonder to what extent this is Netflix’ choice, and how much of it is studios/networks/content providers all wanting to create their own services now. You used to be able to get everything you wanted through Netflix, but now it seems like you need a dozen different subscriptions to do the same, or to go in for the…

Marvel and DC are such a mess right now. I know there are scattered solid titles in both lines, but I can’t even enjoy the good work they’re doing because I’ve become so disenchanted with the rest of their output. Like, I can no longer get emotionally invested in anything they’re doing because I know another Civil War…

I want to imagine that this sequence of pics tells a story. It starts with the guy in the capsule touching down with his robot, and continues with his journey across the strange world he’s landed on, and how his life changes and grows after being stranded. Ending with him having found more humans and starting a…