The challenge of explaining their “proof of concept” was rigged with landmines of broken promises from the start, I’ll grant you that. That just makes the lack of communication all the more striking to me.

I’m not mad, just a little disappointed (fwiw I’m enjoying the version of the game I paid for). This isn’t about soothing my entitled ego, it’s about addressing some basic principles in selling products. If there were compromises, I’d like to hear about them.

“Sean is basically the studio’s whole PR department, but he is also the game’s lead designer and programmer.” I get this, I really do, but it’s unacceptable. We’re talking about the best-selling game of 2016, I believe. Perhaps I’m coming off as a naive idiot, but surely a game that succeeds in such a way would be…

Isn’t a lot of the desire for communication about misconceptions concerning “how the world was built”?

What entitles you to a patch? There’s nothing wrong with wanting to know more about a game and why some things were included and others weren’t. If I was at a Chinese restaurant and I ordered something based on a picture menu but when I got it, it didn’t look like the picture (missing broccoli!), it wouldn’t be…

They had no problem with communication when it was selling people on all of the ideas they were going to include. They only started clamming up when those things weren’t delivered. If there’s some legal reason for this, some contractual obligation that they cannot specifically address features not included in the…

Reading on reddit that changing max framerate to 60 is helping some people.

Great. I refuse to wear these things for years and not two weeks after my GF buys me a pair that she likes on me I see this story pop up in my feed. Life is unfair and confusing and I blame jezebel.com for it all!

Toxic masculinity in full force. A woman taking leave may damage her career, but at least it isn’t challenging the gender assumptions of her employer. I think men should be taking leave after childbirth and sharing duties equally, but I wouldn’t be surprised if many fear the full weight of masculine fury at…

I know that the discussion is mostly over for this by now, but I want to say that I AGREE, BUT there is something in Return of the Jedi that I hate more than any other film in the original trilogy: Leia post-Ewok capture. When they take her captive and she abandons her warrior look for that earth-mother, flowing-hair,…

Alexander is into that look (I like it). Here’s her at the Thor premiere awhile back:

Would you see him explaining himself as a “late convert” as a form of apology for the lack of leading female roles in his earlier work or is there another reason? I’m trying to understand how it would make it a more meaningful comment.

I’d never really thought about this: that if I imagined some of the broad condemnations of “short guys” with the words “fat girls” substituted into it, it would be so offensive and cringe-worthy. I’m really not sure where that mental block came from. It’s dehumanizing and hateful.

Guy here. I closed my eyes and read the text message thinking, “What Would I Do in This Situation?” The younger Me who had never been in a relationship probably would have read that and not even given it a second thought, or at the most an “ah, pleasantries” in the back of my head.

Counterpoint: CRPGs are fun.

Natalia Tena (Osha in GoT) as Ellie in the Hugh Grant vom-com About a Boy (before she was Nymphadora Tonks in the Potter films for years).

Does go against the lighthearted feel of the post (but sadly, I’m sure it’s one of the first things many of us thought).

Oh god. I'm always worried that one of the nights I was on automatic is going to show up in a thing like this. Actually, it's more likely that I was playing dumb to entertain myself and some "very smart" customer will regale the world with the tale.