Second Son is the shortest of the three by a significant margin, and you should have a good sense early on if the game is worth playing through. All the story criticisms from this article rang true to me. The gameplay was the highlight, even if the “new” powers weren’t too different from the previous games.

The plot and characters of the first game are the most shallow by far, but that’s not saying too much. Cole’s generic “seen it all” mentality works better in the second game mostly because by that point he had seen a lot and his death actually felt earned. Second Son could not pick a tone and never really topped 2 in…

“and they can’t hope to compete with PCs from a technical standpoint, especially given the technical literacy of the audience that prefers PC games.” 

That’s what I mean, they’re aiming to replace consoles which means winning over an audience that’s already well-served and comfortable, warts and all, and they can’t hope to compete with PCs from a technical standpoint, especially given the technical literacy of the audience that prefers PC games.

Google is positioning this as a console instead of a PC competitor? Stadia would never replace my Playstation or Switch, but I’d love to stream stuff that never makes it to (or never plays well on) consoles like strategy games to my dinky Chromebook

There is so much culture involved in this yeast

I had the same feeling when I heard Psyduck was really a platypus

The flower on Venusaur’s back is a Rafflesia, which is locally known as “meat flower” since it smells like rotting flesh. For some reason that’s all I can think of after seeing this

“Black and Tan” and “Irish Car Bomb.” Oh, wait...

90s pro sport style guides dictate that the mascot has to be depicted playing the sport in question. The Mighty Ducks logo is just sporting equipment designed for a duck, so there’s a strong suggestion that a Duck With Attitude is playing hockey somewhere, but no visual confirmation

You nailed it, I read this article and my first thought was “this is exactly how I felt before I decided to quit Mad Max.”

If your ultimate goal is to sell tickets and make sure your marketing partners feel they got their money’s worth, you really don’t want to see your target demo savagely mocking the movie and, specifically, the images you’re asking those marketing partners to plaster on their products. It’s one thing if people outside…

They should just start going by year, like they do with Madden

The blue wave in 2018 was fueled by the notion that Dems would stand up to Trump if given power; deliberately not standing up to Trump using the power granted to them is a questionable strategy at best for 2020

God of War and Horizon: Zero Dawn off the top of my head, and they’ve been trying to make Uncharted work forever.

We proved in 2016 that a centrist with strong associations to past administrations isn’t capable of beating an absolute idiot with less money and a Twitter account (twice: Jeb! and Hilary)

That’s not what I’m saying. A Biden victory over Trump would be great and I’ll vote for him if he’s the nominee, I just think there’s no way he’s capable of beating Trump. But if that’s what the center-left insists upon making happen, maybe they’ll learn that repeating their plan for 2016 was a mistake before they…

You’re acting like I’m expressing a preference: If he’s nominated, he will lose for the same reasons Hilary lost. I’ll vote for him if he’s the nominee, but I don’t see him overcoming Trump’s fired up base and build in advantages as an incumbent

At this point, that might be for the best

I’m not condoning what he did or how he did it, but it’s been 10 years and I think enough time has passed that we can all admit it: he was correct that “Single Ladies” should have won