The unfortunate thing here is that the consequences won’t be limited to the price of games. If companies have to lay off people to maintain their profit margins, that’s going to come from the creative side of things. We’ll lose originality and only gain in games that have high profitability (i.e. mobiles and…

“For a party that preaches tolerance, this once again demonstrates they have very little civility.”

“A group of minorities who have committed no crimes and who are deemed inferior by the white people in charge are being rounded up and placed into camps patrolled by armed guards against their will and without charges. Conditions in these camps are so bad that some of the people held in these them have literally…

The issue with this approach is that when the other side is coming to the table in bad faith, any verbiage you use is going to be made into a controversy. There is no right way to do it when their expressed purpose for existence is to troll and own the libs. They’re not interested in fixing the problem now, and they…

I managed to randomly get the unevolved form of this.

I guess some other people have said this too, but I’ll say it anyway. The weird thing about this is, I don’t see there being a war bump if Trump does successfully instigate a war. Not just because there’s no 9/11 underpinning a war, and not just because Trump’s efforts to manufacture an Iranian threat are so blatant…

Before Hereditary came out, I went and watched several of Ari Aster’s short films, and one of the things that I saw throughout his work was this incredibly dark sense of humor. Not really jokes, exactly, but stuff that was both funny and horrifying at the same time, so that you didn’t really know whether to laugh or…

It’s because every movie sucks. If the movie is bad, it sucks. If the movie is good, it sucks. If the movie is mainstream, it sucks. If the movie is niche, it sucks. If the movie gives you all the answers, it sucks. If the movie makes you think, it sucks. If the movie is unpopular, it sucks. If the movie is popular,…

I have experienced this joke in real life: As an ignorant freshman, one of the things we had to do in our intro biology lab was read a scientific article and develop a brief presentation summarizing it. My article was on facial tumors in Tasmanian devils, and it was published in PNAS. I gave my presentation and legit…

Interesting to me the dynamic here. Republicans want a war because they see the coming slaughter in 2020, and Trump doesn’t want a war because Daddy Putin would send him to bed without supper. Hopefully Trump and his party can find a middle ground and obliterate each other in the process.

:O Thats things-that-stink-like-rotting-meat libel.

I really, really want to watch this, but the minute she said “giving some of the backstory” I had to force myself to stop. I really want to see this game, but I also want to go into it as blind as possible. I knew nothing about Hollow Knight when I first started except for “Bugs,” and that’s part of the reason it…

Yeah, I definitely agree. Square is being ambitious, but seeing some of the concrete results of that ambition yesterday was really awesome. It’s not just some nebulous “we’re doing a remake hooray” thing anymore — it’s an actual game, and it actually looks pretty solid. It would definitely be nice if they had a…

Criticism is fine. Taking bets on when the game will fail isn’t criticism. Saying you went from excited to having no interest in the game because of one article that says “it feels great to play and will take time to finish” isn’t criticism. Railing on about “corporations, man” adds nothing to the conversation. Should…

Yup. People are even complaining about Animal Crossing because it used the word “getaway” to describe its locale. How dare the game be set on an island that is functionally the same as the towns in every other Animal Crossing. People are deciding based on a reveal trailer that it’s a clone of Pocket Camp, which if you…

The speed with which people have turned on this game since last night’s awesome presentation has given me whiplash. Although, given that the response to literally everything at this E3 has been en-masse bitching and moaning, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s a next-gen Final Fantasy VII, for fuck’s sake. Enjoy…

But my meeeeemes

So if they’re clapping, they’re plants and Bethesda is bad. and if they’re not clapping, there is no enthusiasm and Bethesda’s bad? Got it. I mean, you know other companies have employees clapping in their pressers too, right? I daresay it’s even possible that both fans *and* employees could be clapping at the same…

I’m all for fan involvement and cheering the things you like, and I’m fine with a yell here and there, but this just annoyed the crap out of me. There are thousands of other people attending that conference, and countless more watching online, and they aren’t watching to see your dumb ass interrupt presentations over…

I honestly hadn’t seen that criticism yet, but even if bringing back NPCs *is* Bethesda catering to fans, I don’t see that as a valid criticism. eople can’t spend the last few years bitching about how Bethesda doesn’t listen to what fans want and then turn around and complain that they’re only doing something to…