"I'm a pretty educated guy who has opinions."
"I'm a pretty educated guy who has opinions."
This is often a common reaction people have when they can't handle being less smart than someone.
"Having been a fan of that particular means of explaining how reality functions for decades now, I was afraid I'd spend the entire flick picking away at it ruthlessly instead of stuffing my face with popcorned butter and diet soda."
Weasel word? Are you daft? Why the fuck would its usage as a legal term make it a weasel word? You're the only one who was confused about its meaning. In a judicial context, it's a completely neutral term.
Precedent is not purely a judicial term. How are you not understanding this? Are you that stupid?
"Because everything else is just an alteration on that core gameplay."
Learn the definition of the word precedent please.
If EA or Activision did this, you'd see a billion people making comments about how publishers are the devil.
"There is no great societal impact."
"Go where you're going to have fun playing with people you know. Because other than that, they are functionally the same bloody game."
"[...] but stuff that is fun and trying to do something different, engaging, of a level of quality in this particular case something that catered to a free to play market. That did so in a way that we don't think anybody else is."
I don't know, people gave Double Fine and Obsidian Entertainment the money they needed in record time.
...since when was generically dressing as another profession cosplaying?
People have gone further for things worth less than $3,000.
Sultry features? The only resemblance to Audrey is in the fact that the facial features are dainty, but the eyes, eyebrows, and especially the hair are a dead give away that it's not Audrey Hepburn.
...so instead of admitting you're wrong, you're going full troll?
Nope. Gay marriage was requested long before. They're not sorry they didn't include it, they're sorry that there was a backlash.
There's nothing convoluted about the backstory they presented...the convoluted parts of Diablo lore are the backstabbing, the societal structures of Angels and Demons, the Prime Evils' plans, etc., none of which were touched in this video.
While I support LGBT rights in every fashion, this article reads very biased. Any rational human being can recognize that gay rights is a controversial and polarizing enough issue that including it in this game would be construed as social commentary, and as a corporation, Nintendo has no moral obligation to support…
When they have Deus Ex quality implants, I'll be first in line to get them, but I do not want to be testing the frontier of this technology.