My interest was also piqued by the US government’s sudden seriousness about the issue. However, it is through great effort that I remain skeptical. Granted, it is novel that this time around there has been an effort to standardize reports and reduce the stigma on reporting service members, the government does go…

I’ll grant you that fans can be very petulant. However, I think that when an artist creates a work, they enter into a dialogue with the consumers of that work. I know that sounds pretentious and it’s reductive to refer to Nintendo as “an artist”. Individual people working on Zelda might be artists (writers, designers,…

No one reasonable is upset that Sidon and Link don’t have a canon romance despite all of the winking and nodding going on. I don’t think anyone expected Nintendo to do that.

People doing the trad thing are either in on the grift or they’re the mark. They’re being groomed to both be and to produce cheap, obedient labor.

The issue isn’t the animation style, it’s the tone. Even the brightest Zelda entries have dark undercurrents of loss and ruin. Most Zelda’s are more on the nose about it.

First of all, I’m in my early 30s. Secondly, who still goes to the theater? I’ll wait for it to stream.

It seems generally true that every subsequent generation is more progressive and inclusive than the last, but there’s this constant undercurrent of young men who buy the shit that edgelords like Rain are peddling.

It’s not that they’re allergic but that they’re immune. Specifically, they’re immune to complex truths that allow room for things that are not known or understood. Truths that are filled to brim with meaning but are often hard to accept.

Lol, what?

They uh... they snuck a bingus into that video.

I have TotK pre-ordered and I’m excited to play.

What Mr. beast does isn’t as simple as you make it sound. I’ll grant you that it’s good for people to receive necessary medical care.

What?

WTF are you talking about?

Hah! I’ll have to take your word for it. I was 8 when Alpha Centauri came out and I doubt our crappy Compaq from Circuit City could run it. It could barely run Windows 98.

Maybe Midnight Suns? Turn-based deck builders are great when you’re stoned, but Midnight Suns has a lot of story and the UI is a little convoluted. Still, figuring out an encounter really wrinkles a brain on THC.

Super agree with this. Civ VI is a game I kept going back to and then leaving.

I mean, yeah, it’s a big game and the media is a reflection of our consumption habits. In this case, it’s a voracious need for more articles to click on “the big thing”.

Counter to the majority opinion, and despite how much I loved the original Deus Ex’s commitment to player choice, I didn’t mind the boss fights in HR all that much. It was a change of pace from using stealth the whole game, but it was also an opportunity to unload all the equipment that had piled up as well as to try…

I can’t say I know PointCrow’s intentions, but doing stuff like modding games, bringing exposure, and otherwise engaging in transgression on things like copyright law is part of pushing back against companies. Our relationship with Nintendo/Sony/MS/any company is inherently adversarial. After all, if Nintendo could…