The melder lets you trade in certain special ticket items for rare monster parts, but you only get them from certain kinds of quests, like egg quests or multi-monster hunts. It’s pretty limited, though. If you happen to have the right ticket, it can be convenient, but you’ll probably still mostly just farm.

You do know that’s how things got started in Nazi Germany, right? It wasn’t an overnight transition from peacetime to concentration camps, it started with forcefully arresting and deporting immigrants, then, when they realized no one was going to stop them, went on to being anyone they didn’t like. I’m sure you know…

I can’t speak for Xbox, but on Playstation my friends and I have found that the native PSN invites and session joining work exceptionally well. If you go to a friend’s page from the main Playstation menu, you can join their room directly, though in fairness it did take us far too long to figure this out.

As to 1, once the cutscene plays players can join your quest, and in fact, unlike all previous entries joining a quest in-progress is a thing now, which is great.

The argument for or against microtransactions is separate from the one about loot boxes and gachas. Buy-able cosmetics aren’t really any different from normal DLC—you pay for an item at a pre-determined price and you get that item—loot boxes are not that, and should not be treated the same way. Regardless of one’s…

Firstly, in the US, children aren’t held to the same legal standard as adults, they were brought in as children, and thus aren’t considered responsible for that action. Most didn’t apply for citizenship because, if you’re an undocumented immigrant in the US, there isn’t a legitimate path to citizenship or legal…

Over new years my friends and I gathered together two sets of equipment for Crystal Chronicles we’d accumulated over our collective lives just to play it again while everyone was in town. It’s far and away one of the best co-op games around. Shame there’s no easy way to play it these days.

That seems like a pretty shallow economic point of view. If you doubled minimum wage workers’ income, yeah, in the short term, the cost of goods and services would go up, but they wouldn’t likely double, and now all of those workers who weren’t previously spending money are, aren’t relying on safety net programs, and…

It doesn’t take into account any itemized deductions, only the standard deduction (it probably would have counted the individual deduction as well, since everyone got it, but it won’t exist anymore). If you deduct anything, now, you can effectively add that to what you currently owe. My household is estimated to get…

At least 2 million more people voted for other party, don’t forget. Our political system is terribly broken.

Migraines are the pits. I get them about once a week on average, with longer cycles of less frequent ones and more frequent ones, and they pretty much end my day as soon as I realize that’s what’s going on. Mine come with the skull-splitting pain, nausea, photo-sensitivity, disorientation, weakness, and, if I let them…

Just because it’s not illegal to be certain flavors of evil doesn’t make them less evil.

They do, and they tend to be expensive, but they also usually cover pretty much everything a student would conceivably need in the four+ years they’re expected to be here. That’s the aim, anyway. I work in a student health department, so I’ve got a little insight into it.

I’d dispute that it’s motivated by not hurting feelings. IQ tests, and indeed most standardized testing methods, have never been great measures of anything other than someone’s current level of education. They do have their uses, but as a standard metric of general intelligence, they don’t really have much value.…

I’ll definitely second this, as a holder of a Computer Science degree. RPG Maker was my first foray into game making, too. It’s a great entrance point. I haven’t touched Unreal at all, myself, but from my experience with Unity and plain-old OpenGL, I’d also recommend Game Maker Studio as a good middle-ground to anyone…

Fun fact about how it gets decided which side-effects have to get listed on drugs: it all comes down to clinical trails. If someone in the live medication group shows symptoms of something, and it can’t be statistically or otherwise proven that the drug didn’t cause it, it gets listed, even if it doesn’t make sense…

Considering this is coming out a Master’s thesis from a professional trade school program, I wouldn’t very well call this the work of an amateur. This sort of student is exactly the kind who will likely go straight into the industry after graduation. I’m not saying Blizzard will pick the concept up because of that,…

I’ll dispute that you need some high level of training to avoid improvised weapons. The first thing you learn in the sorts of martial arts that police self-defense is based in is to just step away. No fancy tricks, no particular footwork, just normal walking steps (at least in most parts of the developed world.…

Choosing not to be insured due to costs isn’t much of a choice, just like choosing not to go to the hospital for that severed arm due to costs isn’t much of a choice.

Without the support of the ACA systems that all of these spending bills have been trying to remove, your options, depending on your state, will either not change, or become a choice between the same shitty, expensive insurance and nothing, which isn’t much of a choice. I also expect that the one insurance provider’s…