It seems really odd to me to apply an anime term to something that has been around going back to The Faerie Queene as though anime invented this.

I’ll just have to miss the wedding event because there’s no way I’m ever setting foot on Harv’s creepy #MeToo island again.

Jason Stephenson’s sleep meditations are my jam.

Jason Stephenson’s sleep meditations are my jam.

If I could get one of these with bluetooth headphones that would be the shit.

If I could get one of these with bluetooth headphones that would be the shit.

I screwed up one of my ME2 playthroughs and Garrus didn’t make it at the end, so he wasn’t there when I started ME3 and ... I just couldn’t. I had to ditch that Shepard build because it just didn’t work without him. Also, Morden in ME3 made me cry at a video game for the first time. Those characters are so, so good.

That video is trying way too hard.

I’m a middle-aged woman and the Borderlands series has been one of my favorites. I still go back to it. It’s entertaining as hell. But I do have the sense of humor of a 12-year-old boy, so...

Wow.

I can at least consistently play Anthem (although I haven’t recently). Fallout 76 kept booting me off servers to the point that the game was unplayable, even though I actually enjoyed it. I think I only got to Level 12 or 13 before abandoning it because I kept getting kicked out.

Alas, I’ve never been able to get the Railroad ending to work, even after the patch. I ended up siding with the Institute with my first character just to finish the story. It felt really wrong.

I spotted him in Diamond City and Bunker Hill when I did my second playthrough and before I met him at the Railroad. I thought, “Heh. There’s Deacon in disguise.” I was amused.

That’s what I expected to find in Salem. Alas.

Oh, good grief.

I’d like to throw an honorable mention at Frederick, MD City Councilman Kirby Delauter, who threatened to sue the local newspaper for using his name in the newspaper “without his authorization” when reporting on a city council meeting. Naturally, the paper wrote an editorial chock full of his name.

Hrrm. I was able to sneak around the race track and take out the raiders but the robots didn’t react to me at all. A terminal I found suggested that I could then run robot races if I chose (but I moved on because I stumbled across the race track on the way to someplace else).

By the time I got to my 9th or 10th character in Skyrim, I started just wandering around picking up food and using it to cook various dishes.

As a former “non-games” journalist, when one reporter breaks an embargo, it isn’t only the violator who gets punished. Everyone gets punished when the source decides never to release anything early again. So, in short...

I really, really, REALLY wish that we (as a culture in the U.S.) were better able to have nuanced discussions about important issues and public policy. We’d be so much better served if we could. Alas...

I agree that we shouldn’t pretend that children that age who are on the cusp of puberty or experiencing puberty don’t have sexual feelings. I remember being 12 and sneakily reading smutty novels. Sexuality is a complicated and nuanced thing, even at age 12. Perhaps especially at age 12.

Ah. OK. Thanks for the context. I thought you were reading something into my comment that wasn’t there, but was trying to keep an open mind.