I like how the people watching can’t quite figure out how fast they need to run away.

“That ship’s out of control! Saunter for your lives!”

There’s two problems with a book that’s filled with derogatory stereotypes of gay people: one is that it’s offensive and bigoted. The other is that a book filled with stereotypes is just badly written. Writing a book that’s filled with laudable stereotypes solves the first problem, but not the second. I appreciate the…

I remember grinding experience in Zelda II by finding a place where enemies would only spawn from one side of the screen, taping down the “Attack” button, and leaving the console on over night.

Take a gassy, bloated star.

He’s from Florida? Looks more like a native of Innsmouth, Massachusetts to me. When he talks about bringing faith back into government, we sure he’s talking Jesus, and not Father Dagon?

If this dude had said, “Tupac really liked avocados,” and Tyson knocked him on his ass over that, would you say Tyson was just standing up for his friend? Or would you say, “Jesus, what’s Tyson’s problem with avocados?”

It’s definitely a step up from “rapist.”

Which he also is.

If someone thinks that the suggestion that their friend might have been queer is something that they need to be “violently protected” from, then that person is a homophobe.  A violent one.

I don’t find that to be true at all - you can have a huge variety of fights in a true turn-based game. It’s only a problem if waiting for the enemy turn to resolve is in some way intolerable for you, which is purely a matter of taste. I like the tension of watching enemy’s turns resolve and waiting to see how it…

Except for the part where he’s a violent homophobe, apparently.

Yeah, I bought that as soon as I heard about turn based. It was fantastic, and now I’m kind of bitter that they’ll probably never do the same thing to the first game, so I’m always going to getting only the second half of the story.

Yeah, me too - preferably not using a Baldur’s Gate style engine.

“Let me muck about in Golarion.”

Yeah, the BG-style combat has never worked for me in over 20 years of gaming. One of the biggest accolades I can give to the writing of BG2 is that it was strong enough I actually finished the game, which is something I can’t say about literally any other game that uses this mode of combat, from Planescape: Torment to …

You want to know something terrifying? There was nothing wrong with the reactor design at Chernobyl. The apparatchiks running it wanted to do a “test” of the reactor, which required deliberately disabling multiple safety locks, one of them literally with a hammer.  The only flaw in the reactor design was that they…

You’re going to zucc his prostate?!?

My typical experience with a Root headline:

Yeah, I’m not going to go around the internet slagging the game off just because it’s an Epic exclusive. But I’m also not going to buy it, unless they do a Steam release somewhere down the road.

I’m really learning a lot from this conversation.

So, copyright laws work differently for books versus movies? How does that work when quoting between different mediums? If I write a book quoting a movie, does that trigger a different legal standard than if I wrote a movie quoting a book? And where do other mediums fit into this? What level of copyright protection…