Luke answered, but seriously: anyone. Literally anyone. Did the country exist in the time period you start in? Yes? You can play it.

Back in the days of Hearts of Iron 2, for example, one of my most strangely satisfying and successful campaigns was when I created a South-and-Central American empire... as Haiti.

In fact,…

I mean, I’m a backer and I fully expect to really enjoy this game, but...

...good god that voice acting is terrible. Like, “Makes Mount & Blade voice acting seem award-winning in comparison” levels of terrible.

Wakanda is usually placed in the same general area as Tanzania, which speaks Bantu Swahili as one of its main languages. Xhosa is also Bantu-based. So, actually, it’s not as bad as it seems - it’s at least in the same language group, and the language group chosen is appropriate for the location of the fictional…

Personally, my issue is that what they’re doing is basically unprecedented for them. Creating a fully realized and fleshed out major faction, but forcing you to pre-order or pay extra for it? That’s sort of ridiculous. We’re not talking “we revamped the Celtic tribes and are now charging to play as proto-Ireland” in…

Please do.

Many parties failed to make it to Oregon...

As a Radio Shack employee in the late ‘00s, I sold an unopened ham radio from the early 1980s at full retail price. It had been found in a warehouse that was shutting down, and we got a lot of weird crap.

On the other hand, a 1980s ham radio is still perfectly functional, and full retail price was lower on account of…

God damn it, Kevin J. Anderson!

...bloggers can be reporters, and reporters can be bloggers. They’re not even remotely mutually exclusive. Reporters are not specific to newspapers or broadcast journalism. If they report on the news, then they’re reporters. This is news. He’s reporting on it. He’s a reporter. He just happens to be reporting by way of…

End of #8:

“That still could have resulted in something dumb but fun. Unfortunately, they only got the latter half right.”

Pretty certain you meant the former half. Because as it’s written write now, apparently it was not dumb and fun, rather than dumb and not fun as you presumably meant it to read.

Man. I read this and I feel bad for ever whining about Portland’s mass transit system, which is absolutely rock solid in comparison. Funny how people take good things for granted, myself included. More spending on infrastructure - it’s not a sexy campaign slogan, but I’d vote for someone who promised it.

Look at the bright side: you learned to use cover!

You don’t even need to wear the outfit. At all. The only time it matters is during dialogue. So, if you want the best possible story but the least chance of death, you can wear your normal gear while killing things and then switch back into the outfit during conversations.

There was literally one black guy cast in Thor. Everyone else was white and either Northern European or could pass for Northern European. The one black guy is the guardian of the ways and, of all the gods, would be the most likely to have mixed parentage and maybe be black. So, basically, almost everyone in the Thor…

Well... it is post-apocalyptic. But no zombies, or aliens, or anything like that. Just, at some point in the past, society fell.

Banish her to Spectacle Island. It’s what I did. It’s big enough that you can fast travel there and she’ll be wandering around on the other side of the island and will never speak to you. It’s also where Preston is.

As one of the (apparently) very few people who actually preferred to play New Vegas with Hardcore Mode on, I can’t wait. I especially like the fact that the no fast travel thing suddenly makes the Vertibird flares incredibly useful. I’m wondering how they’ll handle the Institute teleporter, though - maybe you have to…

Yes. DOSBox is pure emulation. Your actual hardware/operating system doesn’t matter outside of being able to run DOSBox itself.

...and the award for “Most Brutal Sucker Punch of a Kicker” goes to this article right here!

Sandbox, through and through. There is story, but it’s much more of a background metaplot thing. Though to the credit of the devs, the actions of players can directly affect and change the meta.