It’s a neat idea, but in order to be effective the second half of the game would have to be a surprise. Otherwise you’d be motivated to make your original park less-than-deadly. It would be hard to market it like that.

In order for you to believe that Shadow of War’s microtransactions are “only” to skip some grind, you’d have to believe that Warner Bros. didn’t insist on bumping up the amount of grind to directly drive mictrotransaction sales.

I couldn’t be in that room. All that hard, fragile work in range of a guy who can barely walk down the stairs without tripping... one bad step and I’d be beaten to death by Magic fans.

Wait wait wait.

I’ve gotta say, Razer’s gamerbro aesthetic is almost tolerable in white.

They told me they’re gay. Since they should know, I didn’t question it. That would have been... wait for it... homophobic.

Lesbians I know in real life tell me they’re gay. And amazingly, they’re walking, talking human beings, not “straight male fantasies.” Pardon me for taking them at their word.

Ah, so she’s not the right kind of gay. And she’s too attractive and positive to count. Got it.

McCree looks weird without his strangely angular half-beard. But he’s confident enough to go with a bit of fuzz on the chest, so I’ll allow it.

McCree’s flare gun pistol is a “Desert Seagull.”

Yeah, I noticed it, and yeah, it bothered me. He’s clearly galloping along the shallow bank of a river or small lake in inches of water, gets air-tackled by Bronn(?) for a maximum of 15 feet, and then sinks at least 20.

Today, they have meetings where they ask the entire team: ‘Does our game stream well?’

In this case, it hurts a licensing company so inept that they can’t be bothered to get 20-year-old games to work on a Chinese Android PCB selling for $70. Who has two thumbs and is sleeping well tonight? This guy.

I really don’t. I jaywalked across my street today, for my own personal convenience. In an amazing coincidence, I affected exactly as many people by breaking that law as I did by downloading Home Alone for the Genesis on my cell phone. Find me the original developer, willing to sell me an HD emulated copy on Android…

Everyone has a moral code. You follow yours, I’ll follow mine.

Laws and ethics are not the same thing. You know that. Pretending otherwise is disingenuous.

Technically, yes, it’s illegal. Practically, I don’t see how downloading ROMs for 20-year-old games that even SEGA doesn’t care about anymore hurts anyone.

Don’t be. This thing is in the news now, but SEGA has been licensing the Genesis for these little all-in-one boxes for years and years, just like those “Atari” consoles that plug in with the old RGB cables. The latest on was just made after the buzz around the NES classic, presumably with HDMI begrudgingly thrown in.

Brienne of Tarth is not going to take ANY of your shit.

The problem with that is that if you go back too far, the world changes in a million unpredictable ways... and nailing down any one of them on the page makes the modern world unrecognizable, and therefore, unrelatable. There’s a reason everyone always goes back to the WWII and Civil War wells: the direct results of an…