How much use does that PS3 still get? Do you boot it up weekly? Every couple weeks, but for a long, heavy night of play?

THANK YOU. There are no bad tropes, only bad writers. Every story has already been told, so the existence of a trope in yours won’t ruin it - it’s all in how it’s handled, what you’re saying with it, and what value it brings to your story.

As a young guy, the Sword of Truth series were my favorite novels - until I learned of his personal politics and realized that what I’d somehow been reading as a socialist polemic was actually a Randian screed. Goes to show you how much a reader brings to a work, I suppose.

I don’t know about y’all but I can’t remember the year when the president wore nothing but Senegalese twists and microbraids because I know that little tuft of tinted billygoat’s gruff on his scalp ain’t costing no damn $70,000.

A jedi’s primary concern is defense, not attack. Of course the sith version would have a more offense-oriented design! This doesn’t seem contradictory at all, and in fact seems to reinforce the mythology around the two factions.

One of my dearest life-long friends passed away a short while ago. She fell and bumped her chin. That’s all. It wasn’t even that painful. She woke that night with headaches, went to the hospital, and died a couple hours later. Head trauma is insanely dangerous. Every year, people die because some chucklehead wants to…

Sure hope that moral stand they took by refusing to vote for Hillary keeps them safe at night while the country burns.

Welp. We’re all fucked now. Thanks again, 2020, you miserable bastard.

1) In this particular case, it led to the publisher publicly apologizing and altering future contracts. They won. Had they been “polite” as you envision propriety, it’s likely nothing would have happened.

I already said Iron Bull was the exception, but let’s look at the others:

The whole reason this scam works is because you’re targeting people who don’t have enough experience to realize they’re being scammed.

Essentially, yes, they are tricking people into signing terrible contracts. It’s predatory because this publisher (and loads more, BTW - they’re pretty much all predators when they think they can get away with it) is intentionally screwing people who don’t know better and can’t afford representation; preying on young…

Wait, wait, wait... you think the NPCs in DAI had arcs? Which character? One of the reasons I hated DAI and still think it’s easily the worst of the franchise is because none of the characters had arcs. Except Iron Bull, I guess, and maybe Blackwall (except he doesn’t have an arc so much as you find out he had one…

Persona 4 Golden, and man it is... a rough experience. I played P5 for the first time earlier this year and adored it, and had a number of friends who said P4 was even better, so was really excited when it came to PC. Started playing it and it was extremely just alright. I’m deep into the game, coming near the end,…

If you’re a developer who puts platforming into your first person game, you are a dick.

That’s why I called it the uncanny valley effect - it’s close enough to reality that all the ways it isn’t stand out and make the experience jarring, which makes it a less immersive experience.

The chances of a vampire game sucking are 100%. It’s what vampire games do.

Speaking only for myself, I find that first person actually harms my immersion in the story because it creates a kind of “Immersion Uncanny Valley.” All the limitations of playing a game are enhanced when you restrict the view to what I can “see,” because I can’t do most of the things I’d expect to be able to do in…

Of the several nits I have to pick with Watchmen—a show I am still infatuated with—the most prominent (and also the pettiest) is that the murderous racists didn’t die violent and painful enough deaths.