I’ve long accepted that online games are temporary experiences like a festival.  Day one when everyone is new, no meta is established, and we’re all learning together.  It’s a great time and no shutdown can take that away.

Your anger seems extremely misplaced.  What do you want, the sanitization of a former leader’s legacy?  Right now is exactly the time to dispense with that.

Agreed about the split personality in Black Flag. Especially when so many of the ground missions were tailing people listening to their conversation without getting caught. I found those segments incredibly grating. However it can still be worth overlooking its flaws for the fascinating telling of the end of the…

How fast battle passes are depends heavily on the studio. Probably the absolute worse offender I’ve experienced is Dead by Daylight which can easily take upwards of 200 hours within a 10 week season. Meanwhile I played Seas of Thieves for just a couple evenings recently and am already a third done with its current 14…

I wouldn’t be surprised if in the next decade or so that Florida becomes a blue state. California used to be the state of Ronald Reagan. However we spent the 90's under right wing populism with Gov. Pete Wilson and gay marriage bans and everything that went with that. The eventual backlash to that extremism greatly…

Holy shit please stop harassing the writers here about Mike. Not everything has to be a conspiracy. I’m glad Owen Good was ready to write about Mike, it was nice. However this is hardly a subject that a person should be pressured to be first on. There’s already enough of that in journalism.

The free market and the existence of Fox News is in fact why there aren’t more conservative outlets on cable TV. Their infotainment model is entirely based on capturing the hearts and minds of their audience. You don’t have to share your market with that kind of hold. They can label whomever they want as the…

Edit: Oops, beaten to it.  Yeah, I definitely second My Time at Portia.

Was his behavior hurting people? Probably not so much. The guy had been labeled more of a clown than anything else. His real sin was causing bad press for Valve. You can’t keep doing that to your business partner and expect that relationship to remain.

I read the whole thread. I literally described most of your replies.  No one needs a strawman when you’re not putting any effort into an argument.

I’m sorry. I tried taking you seriously for a minute, but I guess you got nothing but screaming “IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.”  Have at it, kid.

Like every other thing you buy? That’s hardly true. Machines especially have a long history of being designed to foil understanding by customers and third parties. Or when you buy a movie you aren’t allowed to give a public performance.

I’m not sure Steve has ever given himself enough time off to actually play his own game. I say that as someone who thinks he’s a brilliant creative.

I’m impressed that the ME3 multiplayer is still playable. Can you still find matches pretty well? I have great memories of that.

Been playing with my friends some since it went F2P.  It’s good for the occasional afternoon.  Though I deeply dislike how FOMO the cosmetics store is.  There’s no evergreen store to browse.  It’s all buy now or miss it forever.  If I see someone with an outfit I like, well it doesn’t matter because the game is never…

The part about the code salad and staff leaving is very true. When Destiny 2 was still being published by Activision there were no fewer than two support studios working on content along side Bungie. This included Vicarious Visions, which is now part of Blizzard. Initially Bungie had to figure out what to do with…

One of the concerns about the newest variants, however, is one has mutated spike proteins. This could potentially defeat the vaccines which rely on that marker. It could very well become the dominant strain. I would say some additional caution is wise until we’ve had time to study the ramifications.

There, was that so hard?  You finally narrowed it down.  No, that’s not all that comes up.

Internet is a big place, so somewhere I frequent would have to have covered it. And yes, I did a few Google searches with different terms when you made the initial claim and while I found results it was largely outrage without substance.  So you’re welcome to cut the vagueness and just say it.

Reminds me of ALTF4 with boss fights.  Not my sort of game, but should be fun when Northernlion inevitably plays this.