I was referring to our ability to prevent the worst coming to pass. As I said in my original post, the only hope we have is that, when the impacts come, they’re bad enough to force people to start giving enough of a damn to put pressure on the rich and powerful to do something about it. That said, I still think those…

It’s only when things fall apart can we muster the resources to tackle an issue.

Rich people believe their wealth protects them from consequences. They can always buy their way out of problems, and the system that screws us is built to protect them and deeply cares for their needs and safety. They want to go to space because it’s fun, and because the concerns of the world are not their concerns. 

It doesn’t help that we keep accomplishing things that seem like they should mark a turn-around, but they never do. You elect the right people only for them to be ultimately powerless. You support local candidates only to find that they’re outnumbered. We had all three arms of government for a minute in the late ‘00s…

I think the reason so many of us aren’t really talking about climate change is because we’re fucking tired and hopeless. We’ve reached the point the characters reach in the final act - we’ve talked, we’ve advocated, we’ve “raised awareness,” we’ve supported politicians we thought would do something, and we’ve realized…

I’m on a similar wavelength, worrying about whether I’d have to make any sharp turns or precise stops with something that looks like it’s throttling around uncontrollably.

I pretty much always skip early access, now. I’ve found that playing games in ea leads to me getting bored with them and moving on long before I get to play the actual, full experience. I prefer waiting to experience the game as the developers really intend it to be played rather than bumming around for a year or so…

This is why I can’t ever get behind Harley, no matter what they do with her. She’s a horrible, horrible person with a truly astonishing trail of bodies behind her, and I can’t be a fan of that. That they work so hard to make her “cute” and “fun” as if that makes everything else she does fine - and that it works and…

The one (and really only) surefire, proven way to combat piracy is to make your content available in the way people are demanding at a price they’re willing to pay. People are overwhelmingly willing to support publishers, but you have to make it easier to get things from you than it is to pirate it. Their continued…

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?

Reddit  All of social media and most of the internet makes money by allowing terrible people to do terrible things on their platform. It’s their business model.

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.