This is how I felt about Yooka-Laylee, another Kickstarter that ended up being exactly what was promised and feeling slightly disappointing for it. Nostalgia cuts both ways, I guess

This article lays out a plausible case that this might all be political theater, and the question could still end up on the census, unfortunately: 

Reminds me a bit of Pokemon Conquest, except it isn’t a grid tactics game and they’re using characters from the series instead of giving signature pokemon to actual Japanese historical figures

I don’t know if it’s evil, but the people who seem successful at it always are

When I was 13 it was Tom Green and the Jackass guys, but there will always be some asshole doing immature shit for an audience of 13 year olds who wish they could be doing the same thing and calling it a performance

both roommates were likewise booked for being under the influence of a controlled substance at the scene

It’s not mature to appease intransigent racists, it’s just cowardice and greed. Sometimes it takes cowardly and greedy people to get things done, but there’s no reason to claim moral superiority and insult people who correctly say that doing so makes you cowardly and shitty too

Transplants were the ones keeping Texas red in 2018. Beto might have had some cross-over appeal among conservatives, but it seems like most people willing to move to TX tend to vote Republican

It’s theoretically possible, but in a mobile streaming situation where the phone and controller have to stream and constantly transmit info, 60 fps gaming could be prohibitively data and battery intensive 

If you’re getting a call from a lawyer in a foreign house you’re otherwise unaffiliated with, that lawyer is able to track you down. How many above board ways of doing that are there?

I feel like Sabi may or may not be committing a crime, but Nintendo definitely has a shady-ass fixer on their payroll and that’s depressing

I get your argument for 1, but people have been saying the same thing about animated films since The Jungle Book. Adding famous people isn’t inherently good or bad (that comes down to implementation), but it’s hard to pin it to an artistic inferiority complex as much as marketing pressure.

It’s crazy to me that Porygon has been downplayed in Pokemon marketing for decades now because it’s so strongly associated with this seizure incident. In a just world, it would be downplayed because it’s problematic name references a Japanese accent on the word “Polygon”

Cole sacrifices himself in that game’s canon ending, saving humanity

A sandwich that you can get with better ingredients in every city except Philadelphia. Civic pride should not involve Cheese Whiz

X-Men movies tend to get graded by the quality of two or three action scenes and one or two drama scenes, if the movie nails those 3-5 scenes it’s considered a “good” one and everyone forgets the other scenes happened. Otherwise they’re all just very good/famous/pretty actors performing a Saturday morning cartoon…

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.