It’s interesting how many people at/around EVO seem to have an idea of “fair gameplay” that doesn’t align with the established rules. Not just this particular fight, but also the amount of negative reaction to Bayonetta players in Smash.

Good to hear that you’re recovering well. If you have any issues due to your newfound disability that are tech related, send me a message; my father happens to be the leader in Assistive Technology.

So, you don’t see how the slaughter of civilians is evil?

Now, I’m as much for extensive testing of tech before release as the next man (having just survived a full non-tested release of tech at work...), but with something like an MMO, some things don’t show up on limited release, simply because it takes volume for some bugs to reveal themselves. Just keep reporting bugs as…

Actually, it’s worth noting that Trump has moved to restrict immigration in multiple ways and wishes to restrict it even further. Legal immigration, that is. He’s already clamped down on the work visas for tech experts (legal immigration for skilled labor jobs, primarily involving educated people of color). He also…

I think this is a bit generous. The thing is, there are good people in America. Conflating the country with Trump would suggest that there’s good in Trump.

For instance, I know bottled water is terrible for the environment, particularly from the companies that get their water from drought-depleted California. But I still get one every now and then because, fuck it, I want cold water, and the problem is far away from me. But if I lived in a part of California that was…

No worries. I always try to go as close to the original source as possible, as articles such as this one tend to not state things as clearly (the PPACA, for example, was very widely misunderstood). In this case, it’s rather irritating to me that people are excoriating a document intended to be a guideline towards…

the draft specification includes 6D11, or Gaming Disorder, under the subcategory “Disorders Due to Addictive Behaviors” – which, in turn, falls within “Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.”

I think it’s worth noting that the WHO’s classification is specifically that of a compulsion indicative of underlying disorder rather than a diagnosis itself, something that seems to have escaped a lot of reporting.

That’s... actually not entirely accurate. That pose has been used in many posters, including games and movies. For example, Army of Darkness, which you may remember as the movie that supplied most of Duke’s quips.

Stardew Valley takes that approach to ALL of their relationships, male and female, including those not eligible for marriage. This is more because the game is about farming more than relationships, and a complex relationship system would take away from the core gameplay.

First, you missed the joke.

Psh, that’s the fourth revision of the rules, that includes Basic, Expert, Companion, and Master. If you want original, you want this:

More LEGO mecha, please...

There was a time, when Splinter News was all shiny and new, that I was actually interested in what this site had to say. The content has been becoming more extreme over time, and with this newfound advocacy for violent confrontation and terrorism, I think I’m done here.

Trust me, as a long-time fan of the series, this is NOT about just one or two characters. This is a general trend in the game’s presentation.

The issue isn’t the sensibilities, it’s the weasel words being used around them. Again, Nier: Automata’s Yoshida said simply: “I like pretty girls.” That’s fine. That’s all anyone needs to know. Here, they explicitly phrased it as “it’ll sell more games,” while trying to handwave the actual content, which suggests…

You mean, they might receive some social criticism? They’ll receive that anyway. If they owned it, they’d at least have the strength of their convictions. As it currently stands, their argument for including these things was “it will increase sales because our game isn’t good enough on its own, but we’re too cowardly…

If you want to do something, own it. If you can’t accept the consequences of your actions, whatever they may be, perhaps you shouldn’t be doing it. Doing something and then lying about it is the fastest way to torpedo your credibility.