This one especially enrages me in traditional MMOs, because whether or not you’re a healer, if you’re paying attention, you can totally tell if someone’s been overtaxing your healers by being too reckless. Everyone’s healthbars are right there on your screen. You can see that healing is happening, even if it didn’t go…

This is what I mean when I say we won’t find much common ground. I disagree with you on all three of these things: how much of the easy-to-find porn on the internet is professional, how prevalent abuse is in professional porn, and what to do about it. I don’t think this is going anywhere. I’m sorry for the…

Okay, I saw some of your other posts and now I get where you’re coming from, but we’re not going to find much common ground if you think that “recording prostitution” is a good way to summarize the entire porn industry. If anything, concerns about nonconsensually filmed porn are why parents should talk to their kids…

Youve moved the goalposts unimaginably. Most porn is produced by professionals. Obviously nonconsensual revenge porn or filming rape is wrong, but the very production of those things is immoral and should be shut down so the question of whether children should see it is obvious (they shouldn’t) but completely…

That seems like a dubious distinction to me. There are plenty of movies where the stunt men are actually punching each other, albeit gently. Also, if the reality of it is the important part, does that make cartoon porn okay for kids???

Now that Monster Hunter is making it so big on the west on home consoles, you can expect all its thousands of clones in Japan to start trying to do the same thing, and many of the clones have exactly your two requested changes, that is, letting you kill things that:

(a) Are evil, and therefore less sad to kill.

(b)…

You can absolutely make a doggy-looking cat in the customizer if you like. It will still meow though. You can also just leave him at home.

Disney is going to get a rude awakening if they think they can just keep blithely shutting down games-as-services like this. It engenders a lot of ill will to prematurely shut down something people had bought a lot of microtransactions on. This will cook their attempts to launch F2P stuff with this brand in the future.

He’s actually not anymore, for me. So much of his comedy was deeply personal confessions about trying to be a good person despite evil impulses. If you know he’s actually ACTED on many of those evil impulses, and at that kind of frequently, then the joke isn’t funny...

Hot take: Hearthstone actually has too many classes already.

Think about it, every expansion they either buff one class too much, or leave one class with not much to speak for (this Expansion the former is Priest and the latter is Hunter/Warrior, previously the shoes have been on different feet), and they’re constantly…

“Create the first from scratch; Evolve the second; Complete the series by the third; Don’t make a fourth”

Safe to say Uchiyama wasn’t involved with Dragonball Infinite World? Which is very clearly a Budokai 4 in all but name? 

Let me add to the list “ongoing feature disparity between Big Picture and Desktop mode”.

Controller settings only exists in Big Picture mode.
“Join friend’s game” only exists in Desktop mode.

So how am I supposed to join a friend’s game while using a controller?

This plus your (great) article on on the Gamecube Controller have me thinking: why are we so married to the diamond layout for the face buttons? The Gamecube face buttons are completely excellent for multiple reasons:
- The higher frequency buttons are easier to press
- They each have a different shape so you can…

It’s telling that in order to populate this list you need to use so broad a definition of “video game movie” that this list is mostly movies ABOUT videogames and not movies based on videogames. Movies literally based on videogames are a sorry bunch. Shoutout to Tomb Raider and the Resident Evil series though.

Yeah, wait 2-3 months, then play it with one of the inevitable swarm of wiki guides open in another window.

So, Senran Kagura, but with enough vague nods towards storytelling that you get to tell yourself it’s not creepy but super serious and deep? Gotcha.

So, Senran Kagura, but with enough vague nods towards storytelling that you get to tell yourself it’s not creepy but super serious and deep? Gotcha.

It could be, but on the other hand, I think we’re way the hell too ready to pathologize when a man doesn’t just wanna bone all the time. It should be equally okay for a man to have a low libido as it is for a woman. Of course that can still be a dealbreaker if it makes for sexual incompatibility, and that’s fine.

Honestly, I’ve been enjoying DOS2, but he’s kind of right. Elements of this game seem to betray embarrassing design laziness. Big enemy characters can prevent you from clicking on allied characters next to them, preventing you from healing them. His game doesn’t have to be better than DOS2 for it to be embarrassing…

Activision/Blizzard could do it. EA could attempt it too. “allow Cross-Play or you don’t get the next FIFA” would be powerful. “allow Cross-Play or you don’t get the next CoD/Destiny/Blizzard-thing” would be insane. I don’t think anybody feels like it’s worth gambling with their install base like that though. What,…