Personally, I find that the Evangelicals pardoning on the sins that Kavanaugh had expressed in his youth to be enough. The Evangelical branch needs more former sinners like Kavanaugh to do their good, worldly works of spreading the Gospel, caging children, letting refugees die, deporting innocents to their deaths,…

Because capitalism demands a larger sale with each iteration, or at least an equivalent sale.

So to argue ‘it’s okay for something to be bigger each time, while selling less each time’, strictly in capitalist terms, is a bad argument to make.

If we were speaking in a vacuum and not worrying about sales, and just looking…

Completely. They ramped up the spectacle and the wildness with each of the core games in a way that didn’t feel overblown, and they brought managed to capture both an equal balance of nostalgia while making the new title it’s own thing. They don’t get enough props for carefully threading that needle.

And why wouldn’t you?

I mean, you make some valid points, and I respect your coolheaded evenness about the game without fanboying or fanhating. 

Fallout 4 didn’t fail because it deviated. Fallout 4 failed because it was so much more of the same from Fallout 3 and New Vegas. The storyline similarities between 3 and 4 are appalling, with more ‘looking for your super scientist relative who is secretly behind the whole thing’. The only real deviation was the…

I don’t know if I’d give him the benefit of sophistry, at least Sophists, traditionally, were skilled at using language tricks without actually resorting to logical fallacies.

I could see how that’d be confusing, considering how many are attracted to 8yo anime girls, but no.

Am I not conversing with you now?

But that’s Shapiro’s whole thing: if you ignore the parts that make us look bad. That’s always been his ‘debate’ tactic: obfuscate your shortcomings and then throw out an army of strawmen and hope no one notices; when you start to lose, use ad hominems and complain you’re being attacked.

Please? I have a feeling you’re definitely clever enough to detect sarcasm from a mile away, and that’s something I could use. There’s no way you’re just a complete fucking moron who’s been played in the least, by not even seeing the sarcasm to begin with, but instead thinks they’re the smartest person in the room!

Mecha fans are a desperate, desperate lot. It’s been over a decade since we had a good Armored Core game, Front Mission hasn’t made an actual mecha title since PS2, the Mechwarrior series hasn’t been around in a long, long time, and while I do love the Battletech that came out recently, it’s still lacking in…

Please, explain it to me. In detail. I’m always happy to learn!

Hey, thanks for hearing me out, I appreciate it. I’m not a genius, but I definitely feel like it’s pretty obvious!

Katherine. Give the man some credit for keeping them in his ghoulish face.

“I make statements as if they were fact without anything to back them up!”

Mehrrr! I don’t like that the ADL hates Nazis. MEHRR!

And please don’t let it be Drake.

Except that the Iron Cross was removed from production in the 1940's, then flat out outlawed in Germany in the 1950's... It was then later renamed, redesigned, and then reintroduced to the German Bundeswehr in the late 1950's.