Thumbs Up/Down makes sense because its rooted in Roman gladiatorial tradition of letting the crowd decide someone’s fate. Thumb’s Up means you should kill your opponent, Thumbs Down means to bury your sword in the ground and spare them. It’s a quick visual representation of what someone should do with their sword…

I mean, they do when its a new release. They’ve given plenty of coverage to Shade: The Changing Girl, Geas, March and so forth. Its all dependent on whats coming out this week for what they’re going to review as they can’t just review whatever book they want to

Birth of the Dragon wasn’t as bad as IV (or that 2.5 mil opening) make it seem, but it certainly isn’t worth running out to see. It had some decent choreography in some of its big fights, which it kept undercutting at times with really silly slow-motion, and the plot is so cookie-cutter you’d think a computer wrote.…

There was a crash in Japan in the 80s, JAL flight 123, which is the dealiest single-aircraft disaster with 520 people dying on it. The plane went down in some mountains and despite being located by nearby US troops, the JSDF insisted on handling the rescue mission on their own which created a delay in refinding the…

The graphics on the Secret of Mana remake give me pause, they’re a little too cartoony when part of the charm of the original was the simple 16-bit sprites. That being said, I’m going to play the shit out of that game, I love Secret of Mana

The obvious answer would be the change from GTA1/2 to 3+. It didn’t just take the game to 3D, it added so many story elements and side things to do that they might as well have called it a new game series entirely.

I have some hope, especially in Geradi, however the way everything else has been going these last few days I’m not sure the corporate masters really care to follow through on what they told him.

Well they shouldn’t be changing to fit Gawker’s needs. Whether they manage to hold on with all the other stupid corporate decisions coming down remains to be seen

That makes sense. As much as I like the Death Clock from a tactical point of view, its really not conducive to friendlier games, so being able to just call something a “draw” is pretty good. I have a crapton of models for both Warmachine and Warhammer but I’m kind of the inverse of you, I really am too lazy to paint…

I don’t think the oddsmaker has ever seen the show. He’s made predictions in utter contradiction to every manner of plot advancement the show has ever used, as well as just random odds like that.

You do Warmachine games to time-out draws? When I would play under a time-limit we did death clock where each player has a chess clock and if you’re individual time allotment runs out you lose. Its the Steamroller ruleset so if you’re more into painting its probably not what you want to start playing with, though it…

I ended up promoting Nino to 5-star, but I haven’t had time to get her level maxed out yet. Between the Tempest Trials and leveling up my horse team, my archer team, and my flyer team she’s fallen a bit by the wayside.

I finally beat Fire Emblem: Echoes so some general thoughts about it as a whole:

Seriously, why do people care about the physics in Wanted so much? Sure the bullet curving is a silly, but its also a movie where the assassins pointedly have superhuman speed and strength. If Equilibrium can have “gun-kata”, something far stupider when you think about it, then just chalk the bullet curving up to any…

The absolute worst part is that this isn’t even a new product, its been around on the other Gizmodo sites for years. Things like the layout should have been known to everyone, yet they willfully blinded themselves

So who exactly seems to have such a love affair with blank, white space? Margin’s people, margins.

Ah, in that case I’d counter by saying you might be thinking of too big of a picture which is why it appears to be confusing to you. While scoring is nice and all that’s not the actual “aim” really, getting those 1st downs is. Football is nicknamed a “game of inches” precisely because the beauty of the game is in…

I’d say the rules don’t force teams to behave in certain ways so much as coaching “tradition” does. As noted in the article the game apparently mocks you for faking punts, yet strictly by the numbers punting itself is not a good idea, depending on field position the fake punt probably is the better move but tradition…

My best post came on a season 3 GOT article about how Lady Stoneheart wasn't likely to appear. I managed to get the firstie somehow so despite the joke being kinda stupid I still got 150 upvotes

I'm aware of the excuse they use, I'm also aware that that doesn't make it actually true. Nazism is a belief system, randomly applying it to every little thing under the sun devalues its true meaning specific to its beliefs.