I haven’t even done my placements for Season 5. I played competitive for all four previous seasons. I thought Season 4 seemed more toxic than anything previous, but when Season 5 started and the salt volcanoes started erupting left and right I decided to just stick to quick play and arcades where things are still fun.

I have played a fair amount of Quake Champions in the beta, and the netcode sucks and provides an absurd edge to players with high ping. Every match people with 200-300ms ping completely dominated over everyone else. Like, in every match there’s that one guy with 250 ping with 0 deaths and a solid 15 frags more than…

Is it weird that after learning your character’s name the first thing I did was wonder, “I wonder if Fahey is on my server, and if he needs a Free Company...”?

I went and looked you up on the Lodestone, and alas, we are on different servers and you are already in a big FC. Strike out, I suppose x_x

Terrible quality, but it’s all I could find on Youtube

An update from HamNo on the state of yogurt is exactly what I needed today.

For Riley’s sake I hope that they toned down the jumping “puzzles” in TSW Legends. :-3

I loved TSW and am looking forward to linking my account and hopping into TSW Legends.

I just need to finish up FFXIV Stormblood, which Funcom decided to compete with, given their launch timing. This choice seems kind of like how they released TSW to directly compete with Guild Wars 2, a far more typical MMO and part…

It is the 2.5 second global cooldown, the long cast times, the long animations with few you can cancel, and the (generally, but not always) very long telegraphs. There is no active dodging in the game either, which is part of why there are such long telegraphs, but it makes everything move much more slowly. Even with…

As an MMO player, I find FFXIV has pretty much the slowest gameplay I have experienced in the genre! It’s all a matter of perspective, I suppose!

It really sounds like your complaints are mostly to do with the genre and type of game that FFXIV is. It is an MMO with an (admittedly quite slow) MMO combat system that doesn’t reinvent or innovate, but is extremely tight and functional. It is also a JRPG, and in typical JRPG fashion it has endless fetch quests and…

Literally the only thing I can think of right now.

You just don’t get it do you? Who do you think runs Congress? Two words: Big Pharma.

It might look like a DDoS, but it’s just everybody on Balmung trying to log in at once for all eternity.

Fuck this dad. His daughter has expressed interest in hormone replacement therapy and transition, and yet the only reason this is even a news story is because she is 15 and not on testosterone blocking meds. Testosterone permanently changes your body and testosterone induced puberty changes are fucking hell for trans…

Thanks. Unfortunately I rarely comment on Deadspin, so I am still trapped in the greys here.

I am a trans woman and an amateur weightlifter (who competes in sanctioned USA Weightlifting events). I had to go through a medical review process in order to be eligible to compete in USAW meets. Generally, I am fine with something like this that so long there are clear and reasonable standards for trans women’s…

I love that he is wearing a Winston shirt for an update about the Horizon Lunar Colony map.

That is not a lens, that is the restraining bolt that the Jawas put on him. R2 doesn’t have one because Luke pops it off to see more of the message from Leia and then R2 runs away, which leads to him and 3PO running out into the dessert while 3POs restraining bolt is still attached, à la all these images.

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Came here for this. Glad it’s been covered.

Dropping chemical weapons on innocent people from a plane is clearly different and worse than abducting innocent people, imprisoning them in extermination camps, and forcing them into rooms that you then fill with chemical weapons. Obviously both things are pretty bad, but even Hitler didn’t drop the stuff out of…