Hell, a big limiting factor to what we know about Norse paganism, which people don’t always seem to grasp, is that we actually know basically nothing about it. Everything we think we know comes from a few Christian writers many hundreds of years later, writing for Christian audiences. Snorri Sturluson was probably…

Notably “decide for yourself if the character is good” isn’t an option. I love that you don’t want to trust this guy’s opinion, a writer who’s work you can read with viewpoints, interests, insights, ans biases you can see and be aware of, but, what, upvotes on reddit is the way to go?

Does your deep dive of the lore mention when Baldur is killed by the former Greek god of war (who usurped Ares?) who was also the father of Loki? Probably not!

That would be almost silly given the relationship between Greek and Roman paganism. What, would they engineer a reason for him to kill Are-excuse me, Mars? Turns out his real REAL father is Jupiter, who’s just Zeus with a fake moustache on top of his already big beard?

Soooooo she’s clearly meant to look about the same age as Atreus, who is probably about 14 (in fact he was 11 in the first game and the mythological fimbulwinter is 3 years) so I think you may have jumped to some wrong ass conclusions.

The article is talking about representation in video games. High profile examples of well-executed diversity in big budget games IS a sign of progress of representation in videogames. Nobody is expecting, or asking, a videogame to solve racism or something, that’s your own weird stuff you’re bringing to the…

Has anyone told them it’s all make believe? It’s a make believe game based on older make believe. In fact, we don’t know anything about the original make believe! There are zero (0) primary sources on Norse mythology. Everything we know or think about Norse paganism comes from people writing centuries later, probably…

Here’s your fun fact of the day: Game of Thrones came out in 1996. He was certainly working on it in the years prior but even ignoring that Wordstar 4.0 (which is what he uses) was less than 10 years old. He’s been writing those books so long that his machine went from old-fashioned but still familiar to a museum…

Yah not a fan of that. By that math Switch games should all be 20 bucks

I don’t think there’s anything to be “resigned” to. I finished Plague Tale the other day, just cleared my first run in Hades, going to play Disco Elysium next (well actually Psychonauts 2 which does happen to be new), Subnautica and sequel are still on my list. There are just so many good games I feel like it is no…

Even the link is just a defense of FFXIII being not that bad (and strongly defends FFXIII-3 making me think Heather lost a bet or something and had to write it)!

You make playing games sound awful.

I use ublock origin on firefox and the slideshows are all on one page for me. I see the slide headers (like 8 of 16 or whatever) but no clicking required. Not sure if it’s a firefox shortcoming working out in my favor or the ad blocker or a combination. If I actually had to click through these slideshows while getting…

The best case scenario is that he showed up at ground zero of what’s turned into a massive sexual harassment scandal and PR disaster for the company and, worse than doing nothing, dropped a sex joke (unprompted!) that’s become a public high profile example of the aforementioned scandal.

I kind of agree but the problem is that the solution can’t assume these guys are acting in bad faith. In this instance CLEARLY they are, at least most of them. If a substantial number of people were seeking legitimate refunds even after finishing the game you’d expect more bad reviews.

Coolio himself didn't ok it. Since then Al makes sure he hears directly from the musician.

I love seeing Psychonauts 2 getting some attention and good reviews (hopefully it gets sales!) There aren’t many names from the 90s still succeeding in the industry. It’s a lot to stay on top of the advances and trends not just in technology but also game design (I’ve never played Daikatana but I bet there’s some…

For a laptop you’d just use the keyboard and touchpad. I have a hard time imagining a desktop user needing to be worried about this. Someone is going to break into my house with a razer peripheral, after I’ve already logged into windows 10 as a standard user (and I’m guessing the vast majority of users don’t actually…

I’m most impressed he was able to get a ps5!

Contact your work friend’s husband and tell him his wife says he’s blabbing classified information to her, that she’s then repeating to colleagues. This is a serious offense that would end his career in that whole line of work and possibly land him in jail. Even given that she’s making junk up to feel important and…