People keep buying it because 2K has a monopoly on basketball games right now. If you want to play digital hoops, it’s this or nothing at all. When the largest percentage of your audience are people who play sports games pretty much exclusively, that monopoly means those players have to be willing to play nothing and…

That’s not what ludonarrative dissonance is. Watch the video or go to one of the linked articles to learn the definition of a term before you go around acting like you know what you’re talking about.

I would have enjoyed Bioshock so much more if it had been an adventure game.

Just because something can be used to good effect doesn’t mean it’s good. Doesn’t even mean it’s neutral. It just means thoughtful people can maybe put it to good use sometimes. Even then, though, I’d ask if it’s the best way to accomplish your goal. Like, can you think of no better way to say what you’re trying to…

She’s only 46 - what did you expect?

I’m not really arguing against your point here, but the thing that makes D&D different from wargaming is the story. D&D is basically Warhammer + role playing. Much like how a video game is a movie + interactivity.

Ironically, the fact that this is a Marvel game is the least appealing thing about it. Like, the card system sounds really dumb and uninteresting, but if this was a new IP about original magicians and monster-hunters, I might have given it a shot. The fact that it’s doing this kind of story with Marvel characters -…

Absolutely, but you can imagine it would be weird if one of those dungeon-crawl players who just liked fighting and grinding for loot were to say “I can’t imagine why anyone would play D&D for the story! That just does not compute, for me!” Meanwhile, the people who enjoy role playing games for... well, for the role…

Sorry so many people are so willfully misinterpreting your meaning. Welcome to the internet, I suppose. I understand where you’re coming from, but from the opposite side of the fence - I most enjoy games as gameplay supporting a story. If people say to me “XYZ has the most amazing gameplay! You kind of have to ignore…

To me, the only thing more gross than the trend itself, is listening to the people who so vehemently defend it. And oh, lordy, do they ever defend it.

I was reading and thinking about this and wondering to what extent people’s willingness to accept it had anything to do with the truly disheartening and troubling number of people who wank to incest porn or wank their emotions to angsty incest fanfic. I hate having to think about that or wonder about its effects on…

And now most newly-signed artists get contracts that take away percentages of concert tickets and merch as well. I work in comics, I have friends in voice acting and music, I’ve spent a lot of time talking with actors and illustrators in other fields— there is no artistic endeavor a person can pursue at a professional…

“Back in the day” - hahahAHA! The entire business model of the music industry is exploitation. Their contracts trap musicians in an endless cycle of debt and the lowest possible share of profits, designed to prevent them having to pay a thing most of the time. So many musicians get out of the business not because they…

As somebody who’s drawn Guile several times, what I’ve found is that the more realistic you make him look, the more you have to tone down the height on the flat-top to make it work. What makes the Fortnite version feel so weird is that it’s using animated proportions, but the face has a lot more realism in its…

I’m willing to get a new house if it means we also get a new republic. Preferably one better than what we have, but that’s a pretty low bar.

I have no hope for this country, and little for the world. I don’t think we have the will or the determination to do what it would take to turn this around, so we’re just going to sail the ship off the edge of the earth and see what happens. We have huge problems, but like an alcoholic, we won’t recognize we’re in…

Almost everything involving US copyright law is broken. I say this as a creative who relies on copyright protections to cover the work I produce: the whole thing is deeply messed up and favors corporate interests to such a ludicrous degree that it actively works against the principles the laws were created to protect.…

If 2020 taught us anything, it’s people’s capacity for advanced planning and willingness to endure minor inconvenience for the sake of others.

First person mod, eh? To paraphrase Ted Danson in The Good Place, it’s such a human thing to take something so great and ruin it just a little.

Why are you here? This is an article about a first-person mod for the game and yet you’re going off about some nonsense that has nothing to do with it. If you just want to complain about random bs to use the internet as your therapist’s couch, get a twitter account and scream into the void, don’t charge into an…