Most of the removed words would have caused an uproar if they ever actually popped up.

Honestly it’s kind of hard for me to get mad at the NYT for not letting you guess racial slurs in Wordle anymore. When “slave” and “lynch” were the words of the day (and they were both going to be), don’t you think they’d look bad on social media? I get why they wouldn’t want that.

something important to note when talking about China:

“Competitive sports should remain pure sports and shouldn’t be used to announce a political position.”

They won’t go to any competitions with his present? That’s one less team for the others to deal with. Not to mention not needing to walk on glass when talking. Sounds like a win to me. 

I mean, get nothing for the last few months, Vs get nothing for the next 4 years?

At first glance it looks like this may be an avenue for Modi to flex on the world stage and illustrate any advances in Indian power projection abilities (last I recall those were pretty lousy though) by demanding repatriation of its citizens with a large naval task force “doing exercises” in the Red Sea?

Standard practice is they don’t get paid until they finish their duty rotation and sign off the ship, if they bail early they get nothing. 

There just remains the small matter of being allowed to leave the ship (let alone Egypt). These guys need travel authorizations, which are controlled by the government. If they were to try to sneak away, they’d encounter a number of very difficult obstacles. First, they’re on a ship, so they need a ride to shore.…

*looks at current state of the game*

I honestly don’t get what the problem is with giving players more ways to customize their Femshep in ME1. The original options for Femshep were horribly lacking. Also, why wouldn’t she be able to wear make up? She lives on the Normandy, not some army camp in Afghanistan.

And now it’s just... “A sunny day. Oh that’s a weird space ship”

The Eden Prime changes are so bizarre. The mood I always got on the planet is “it’s the end of the world nightmare oh god what is that thing in the sky.” The first time I played ME I genuinely thought the reaper was a giant hand reaching down due to the silhouetted lighting.

If corporations were an ice cream flavor they would be water.

Weaveworld is my all-time favorite book and just seeing other fans has made my day.  

The gentleman prefers his naked women to be adults, not teenagers. He also prefers games that at least give half a shit about storytelling and character development, rather than what appears to be using the crutch of anime tropes and old-fashioned T&A. Guess I’m just not in the thirteen year old boy target demographic…

Yeah after seeing that I’m out. Shame. Vanillaware games are really pretty.

Oh cool, I had no idea this was a Vanillaware game....

“The specific views expressed by blitzchung were NOT a factor in the decision we made,” wrote Brack. “I want to be clear: our relationships in China had no influence on our decision...”

I seem to be in the minority in that I loved Catalyst over the original, but that may be because I played that first. Catalyst, while having a meh story, had much better production values and the gameplay was much more polished than the original. In the original I would often have no idea where I was supposed to go…