That’s another thing that makes the game have no appeal to me - once you have stuff worth stealing, your two options are to either get robbed or become a miniscule cog in a giant machine. Like Mescalito99 said upthread, that's a bit too close to reality for me.

“...new players approaching the famously dense, intricate, WILDLY SOCIOPATHIC game.”

And clearly those remaining 17% have "just given up".

I get why artists agonize over giving permission, but I don’t feel like any parody Al has done meaningfully helped or hurt the career of the original act.

...did they ask Benson about this beforehand?

I mean, it’s not like Manson had a patent on tall, pale, and dark-haired...

Ordered these by accident at a Korean restaurant ages ago - completely overlooked the bed of ice the bowl was resting on *in the picture* on the menu. Was definitely the mul version - I liked them, but found the broth was too strong on it’s own when the noodles ran out.

 I’m a huge Taco Bell fan, and I totally understood why they got rid of the Mexican Pizza - it required ingredients and packaging they didn’t use anywhere else. It isn’t worth stocking unless it’s a major seller, and it wasn’t.

“My conclusion: The 2022 Mexican Pizza is the same iteration as the 2022 Mexican Pizza.”

Whoa there, tiger. Sure you want to assert that “A=A”?

“According to feedback from players...”

Are you *sure* the plural is justified here, Squeenix?

Yeah, I beat Too Human with my brother. We had fun by playing a pair of classes that got past the jank in the game - I was a medic, covering for the fact that the game’s lack of inherent reliable healing meant you felt like you were slowly bleeding to death, and my brother played a ranged fighter who did *so much*…

There’s a lot of “American” food available overseas:



Think my favorite example was the Columbian whose friends took hot dogs and loaded them up with a bunch of ridiculous toppings - that’s the kind of thing Americans do, right? Then gets offered a hot dog in the US and is *bitterly* disappointed. 

Yeah, it helps to remember that Iceland has about the same population as Cleveland. Which makes some of their achievements even more impressive - there’s no reality where Cleveland could field a team that qualifies for the World Cup.

Hades took a genre famous for unapproachable difficulty and made it accessible while preserving optional challenges - how many of the “git gud” crowd can pull off a first-run Hades kill? And somehow the sky didn’t fall when people who don’t base their worth on game skill were able to play and enjoy a roguelike.…

They can, and do, in dozens of other games. But not here, because From continues to cater to gamers whose enjoyment is contingent on other people not enjoying the game.

Oh absolutely. Notice the hilariously mis-named person complaining in the greys already.

Mostly, I think it’s a shame that From’s amazing work in atmospheric storytelling and lore gets gated off by a bunch of people who derive their personal worth from video game competence. Nothing of value would be lost if From…

Shake my head every time I see people ask “Why Is This Game Making More Than 0.01% Of It's Loot Competitive?"

You think the community would tolerate that? If From allowed to people to enjoy their games in a way the “git gud” community disapproves of, you’d hear the wailing across the entire internet.

...I’m not feeling it. The American public of the 1970s needed to be reassured by the presence of something on a bun that a place wasn’t too foreign, but we crossed that bridge a long time ago. If you’re still dying to try this, just buy some TB tacos and empty the shells onto the plainest, whitest, cheapest burger…

“Latinx” was coined by Latinx activists but then broadly adopted by a lot of white activists, meaning the vast majority of Latin Americans first heard themselves described as “Latinx” by a white person. Not hard to see why folks bristle at the term.