You should pick up BL2 on sale. It’s got the great gunplay and loot of the original, with more variety in the weapons and environments. And the story is surprisingly good: a great villain, with new and returning characters that are fleshed out. There’s a good ending to the main campaign too, though you can skip all…

True, but the new weapons and items didn’t seem to change the fundamental balance of the game as much as the changes to Overwatch. Even though, on a technical level, they were much bigger shifts. I couldn’t tell you why---maybe it’s because the tight six-on-six format and much smaller stages in Overwatch are much more…

For Overwatch, I think that’s covered by new characters and stages, plus the six or so events every year. That keeps people coming back even without the constant meta-focused tweaks.

I don’t even bother with Overwatch competitive anymore, and I used to regularly end in the platinum tier. If I stop playing for a month or two, the entire strategic grouping of teams has shifted, and my mains might be completely countered. Or just slightly countered, and now my random teammates hate me for sticking…

It undulates.

It doesn’t bother me, per se, it’s just kind of amusing if you know the context. And while I appreciate the effort, “Kryptonian pills” are a textbook example of a hand-waive sci-fi solution. 

It makes me think of the western superhero one-on-one fighters, where Green Arrow (an entirely normal dude) can punch Superman (an unstoppable god) through a marble column.

Required viewing.

can’t you pick up on the context? This is clearly a new entry in the Living Rooms of the World series.

Tracer in Smash speculation coming in 3...2...

This is a great list of freely-available kinda-sorta audiobooks, even without the neat RSS stuff. I’m gonna stretch out my broadband connection on Agatha Christie, Dragnet, and The Wheel of Time. 

I remember reading about this in Electronic Gaming Monthly at the time. When you’re a Pokemon-obsessed kid, Japan seems like El Dorado, selfishly hoarding all of its fighting monster treasure from the rest of the world.

8-bit Mario vs 16-bit Sonic is very weird.

Violating terms of service is not a crime. I can put “using my Android app means you must let me have a bite from all your future cupcakes.” You’ll violate it, but there’s no way to enforce those terms and no court that would force you to abide by them. 

Despite being a huge fan of one and two, I quit The Pre-Sequel after a few hours. The missions just felt like busywork: “Go get my shotgun from the guy who stole it, bandits killed him and stole it again, rakks killed them and carried it off to their nest, skags ate it and now it’s in four different pieces...which…

I think we can all agree that these people are jerks, and that being a jerk doesn’t mean it’s okay to steal from them. Cheating in a game is still, you know, a game, identity theft is a crime. 

Half of the competitors who qualified for the Evo 2019 Top 8 used Genjuro to do so

I’m gettin’ pretty sick of how all the DLC characters seem to get a free Final Smash. 

Trump in the White House. Johnson beating the drum for Brexit. Bolsonaro, Putin, Xi.

I bet plenty of tow places would take it for free so they can ransom the car back to the owner.