I agree with this. I’m a not-even-competitive-level gamer, but when something weird happens on my PC, or if my Xbox fan starts to spin up, I get nervous, start thinking about what could be happening, why, how to mitigate it, whether or not I need to start over, etc.

The amount of money they’re making on licensing our their stuff is probably considerably more than the few bucks here and there they’re losing when a few handfuls of people swear-off their almost-dead IPs because they’re butt-hurt about something like this.

I mean, we’re talking about people in the dozens that actually…

Well, money being on the line can’t be a deciding factor in this case, because with eSports, money is on the line. When people are devoting as much time as they need to be to become pros, we’re talking about people making this their jobs - surviving on this skill for an amount of time.

I’d argue not impossible. It is cool.
They say that the things we see, even if they’re passive, like television/movies, affect our brains in a way that makes it think we’re actually doing/being those things. Interactive experiences, more so, and 3D and/or VR that much more.

A first-person-shooter? Someone playing those…

There really was something special about EGM. I have fond memories of being at the mall, late on a Saturday night (with my dad), playing with everything in Electronics Boutique, reading all the magazines and comics I could at Waldenbooks, then grabbing the EGM on the way out. Getting some Taco Bell, then staying up as…

“It could elect people who make our criminal justice system fairer.”

This bothers me. The fact that there are lesser evils to choose, the fact that our criminal justice system is dependent on how “fair” the people are that we vote in. Absolutely absurd.

There is absolutely nothing keeping us from voting someone in,…

I think we all now know by now what makes Nintendo a hit, right? It’s not the hardware - it was never about the hardware. It’s about the games. It’s about that Seal of Quality. You’ll never [maybe not never] have the vast library of great characters, amazing worlds and life-changing adventures and challenges that the…

There are plenty of very good responses to this. I need to add my own.

Sometimes I pull my cards out of storage and shuffle through them, tell myself I’m going to build a deck, pull out all my Spellcasters because I like to look at them/pretend I know what I’m doing, then I put them all away after a few weeks of them suffocating my desk space and generally being completely in the way of…

I want to play more of this game, but I need to find friends to play with. I’ve been having a great time just sailing by myself and enjoying the beautiful scenery and ocean (that’s just kind of how I play games), and I did join a game with other players recently but wasn’t motivated to talk to them/didn’t sound like…

How about just a different game about being a journalist in a world of super heroes? Constantly trying to one-up the other gal/guy at the office, trying to make enough to survive/pay bills, taking some risks here and there, choosing where to be and who to talk to, etc.

I agree. They’re going to have to drop the DS line eventually - pretty sure they’ve maxed out the possible upgrades they can make to the machine, minus an OLED and still better processors, of course. To keep the thing backwards compatible (because why wouldn’t you) and still innovate would be incredibly difficult, no…

Or just a Nintendo phone, you know? Carry just a single device with me? That would be ideal and just... the best.

That’s... not really the point of any of this article, the video or the conversation happening below. Why are you even here?

That touches on my main issue with the sequels: The Matrix ended perfectly. It was ultimate ending - leaving it open ended, but alluding to the truth that was on all of our brains: Neo was going to mess their s*** up. Hence the flying away like Superman. The hacker that once relied on machines to hack other machines…

Okay, that’s nice and all, but the real question is, are they (the sequels) better than you remember? Nobody is questioning whether or not they’re bad. The YouTuber points out that the sequels are incredibly bad, quickly lists very easy reasons for the conclusion, and even proclaims the first film as “tightly wound…

I had some long-winded, mightier-than-thou response to this, but then I actually watched the video.

“These are flawed movies by any measure, that don’t live up to the tightly wound perfection of the original.”

I wondering, if someone weren’t constantly thinking about their skin color, and if they played this game in which the term “black” mean a certain type of card and not a group of people with relatively darker skin than other people, and they were “black”, would they notice it immediately? Or is it really just a matter…

You don’t hold it.
It holds you.

I need to visit Japan.
I think I would really love it.