Overwatch’s past player-versus-environment events weren’t nearly as polished as this one.

One, I didn’t say I was offended.

Maybe if your show’s been on so long that one of your first characters is now a modern version of Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, you should just make something new.

It’s pretty reductive to presume that anyone good enough at video games to be paid for it has no conventional life experience. And it’s not as if “normal” people aren’t also revealed as racists, pedophiles, and assholes on a regular basis.

I mean, at this point they should just throw a few more dollars’ worth of tech in there and make it a robot.

I play solo. I’ve never been able to take on a skeleton fort raid by myself, because some team of dicks in a galleon parks there and murders everyone who approaches.

Fair point. I’m thinking with the benefit of hindsight.

Damn, I would have killed to have so many girls interested in mainstream gaming when I was in high school. All these boys are lacking vision: a shared interest is an unbeatable icebreaker. Dumbasses.

Hey, if you had that much fun with what little was there, more power to you. I’ll definitely admit that the atmosphere and the intentional simplicity (spreading out the ship controls into multiple stations to encourage team play, etc.) has an appeal. I just felt that it wasn’t nearly enough to justify a full purchase,…

The price really is the dealbreaker for this thing. There’s a good $20 game in there, or a full-priced game with one or two more years worth of development to add actual gameplay.

It wasn’t connection issues that brought down the servers. It was the crushing disappointment of all those players, who realized that after you’ve caught a chicken, dug up a chest, and solved a super-easy location puzzle, you’ve experienced 95% of the content.

Sure, Romans had slaves, but most treated their slaves better than many modern corporations treat their employees nowadays.

Dude, you are literally defending institutional slavery in an attempt to point out that a mini-game about molesting children isn’t that bad.

In the sense that you pay for something before it’s technically made, yes. But Massdrop is the company guaranteeing your purchase, which you don’t get on Kickstarter. They’ll refund if the process takes too long or the organizer splits.

It’s a portal for “group buys,” which is a term that means an organizer sells niche or custom-made products to a small group of people. It’s ideal for mechanical keyboard stuff, since selling some of this stuff one at a time is impractical but there simply isn’t an audience for the same products to be mass produced.…

And they prosecuted him for stealing a bunch of rich people’s money, not jacking up prices on AIDS medication. Which is totally legal, apparently.

Never pay an asshole if you don’t have to.

Why wasn’t this Tumblr police active

This isn’t about numbers or ethnic diversity. It’s about boring, samey character design. Blizzard isn’t the only developer that does it - take a look at the Gears of War series. Every single human character (including the women!) looks like a walking side of beef.

The difference is that male characters are allowed to be unattractive, and even unappealing. Torb, Reinhart, Roadhog, Junkrat, Soldier 76, and McCree all have scars and disfigurements, as if, you know, they were soldiers. Whereas every female character except Ana (who also has a hottie skin!) look like they just…