I remember reading a study that had aimed to measure to what extent response time atrophies with age. The researchers found that it doesn’t get all that much worse as you get older, which is quite counter-intuitive.

Yo Ian, I ended up beating this game on legend in one long sitting but as someone who destroyed Super Ghouls N’ Ghosts on professional and have beat the other games this one is MUCH harder on legend. Id say Knight compares to the other games. There is a lot of RNG happening with spawns in resurrection which can just…

People say this like you become some doddering old fool when you get past 25. Yeah, maybe your reaction time goes down, but it’s so little and I’d be very surprised if it mattered anywhere than the absolute top levels of competitive play. It’s not a fast cognitive decline either. I think most decline in skill comes mor…

I totally agree but that will never happen as long as their are lunatic hate mobs running around the internet trying to destroy people’s lives over literal nonsense and a lot of times verifiable lies. Or because the person said a no no word 10 years ago in high school or whatever dumb bullshit they decide is no longer…

I know I will get hate for this. Why does someone believing differently than you make them hateful. I don’t agree with them, I was raised reading the same bible and learned you are supposed to spread the word of God through love, compassion, and self sacrifice. Also he with no sin cast the first stone.

I don’t want to be the one making excuses on behalf of a massive corporation for a game I don’t even play, but....

Are you even old enough to know what happened in the 80s when Reagan was President? I lived them, it wasn’t so bad, however it wasn’t great either, but it was better than the Jimmy Carter days. Also as much as I dislike Activision/Blizzard I do not believe they went political about the game, unlike you in this…

Nah man.... Robocop 2 is an excellent sequel. I think you are thinking about Robocop 3.  Also Rambo 2 is a passable sequel, again I think you mean Rambo 3.

The problem with the premise here is that the legacy of these characters and their original, impactful portrayals have already been “sullied” and cheapened for decades by the machinations of capitalism and merchandising long before MK got enough cache to have them adapted as guest characters. It’s just another drop in…

To be fair, most of the franchises that have shown up have basically already turned themselves into jokes long before showing up in MK.

Recognizing drug abuse as an issue of addiction, which is a physiological and/or psychological illness, makes comedy questionable. Not wholly off-limits, but I suspect that if Wastelands 3 was clever about its addiction humor Ari would not have objected as much. You can punch down but you have to be smart. What Ari…

When did people who chose to abuse drugs become off-limits for comedy?

I find fascinating to read the comments here from people saying they’re not into these type of games, preferring more direction about how to play while, to me, a 34 year old guy who grew up playing the original Wasteland and a lot of other stuff that didn’t tell you how to play, this game sounds amazing.

Dude, just stop with “The North” - it was not an entity. It was not one person. There were thousands of people. In your own article you posted, your own quote: “while emancipation was welcomed by abolitionists and their radical Republican allies in Congress, it was denounced by conservative Democrats in the North…

I mean, I see your point in a way but how would you go about removing that staple piece of the genre. You’d have to replace it with something that would be just as good or better.

It’s all about tone. Diablo was always a lot darker and horror inspired. The world was often presented as a very gritty and bleak setting. They used pagan and satanic imagery with atmospheric and subtle music. Diablo III is just a cartoon with generic orchestra and nothing to suggest anything in that world is really…

This list makes sense, but personally the handheld ones never clicked with me. I think I just prefer playing racing games on a big screen, since local multiplayer is the most fun you can have with this genre in my opinion.

Mario Kart 64 is the worst game in the main series (as in, not including the mobile game and the arcade games). Even at the time of its release, I was disappointed in it compared to Super Mario Kart. That doesn’t mean I didn’t still enjoy it at the time. Of course I had a lot of fun with it. But it was still a clear…

Yes, because everyone has all the time in the world. Nobody has family issues to deal with, children to care for with daycares and schools closed down, additional family or neighborhood responsibilities, or other life disruptions or time-sucks during this time.