“...especially from most that are too afraid to join and serve their country in any meaningful way.”

I’m hoping that the success of this game inspires other non-pewpew-themed battle royales, because I really enjoy the concept, but not the shooting.

Because it’s turn-based, this will likely be the only Yakuza game I ever play! Action games are difficult for me because of tendonitis, and my constant despair that Final Fantasy keeps not using turn-based combat is somewhat improved by the idea that a big franchise is making the switch to turn-based combat.

I love spiders in theory, but I have a lot of trouble with them in practice. I’ve created a helpful Spider Size Scale to help my boyfriend know which spiders he needs to carefully capture and take outside.

I guess I am the audience for these articles? I don’t spend any time on Twitter (or, for that matter, TikTok), because I’m old* and Facebook is stressful enough. I do, however, derive great joy from reading about Twitter and TikTok and the wacky hijinks that other people get up to. Since articles like this are really…

I made my own! I have nasty tendonitis, so I no longer find it comfortable to hold a controller normally. I use a Mad Catz Street Fighter V arcade stick when I can, but that doesn’t work for games that require analog sticks. So I modded my DualShock 4 using Sugru. I hold the controller on my lap like a tiny arcade…

I work at a community theatre, and we pretty early on launched a Zoom-based theatre season for our volunteers to stay connected and involved. We perform public domain plays and livestream them to Facebook. The actors make their own costumes at home and find weird props around their houses (or make them out of…

I’m trying to decide if it’s worth my while to fuck around with the settings until I can get my pad to work or just boot up the PS2 that I keep around specifically for DDR.

I regularly read reviews for games in which I had no interest because you had written them. Thanks for being so awesome.

I finally just paid for an app that lets me use my smartphone as a webcam, and I’ve been very pleased with it. $7.99 beats $250+ for a $50 webcam, even if it means I can’t use my phone at the same time.

I’m personally grumpy that “Classic” mode is tied to Easy mode. Would that battle mode have more closely emulated the turn-based experience if the battles were harder? Maybe? I continue to be bitter at the removal of turn-based combat, although I’ve been enjoying the game on Normal.

Ha, I didn’t expect to be answering theology questions in the Kotaku comments! (Amusingly, I identified as neo-pagan before becoming involved in the UU church, so “heathen” is apropos, Freedommann.)

It’s so great to see what other churches are doing. I work for a Unitarian Universalist church in Oregon, and our services have now been online for a month. I’m the Religious Exploration person, so I’m usually in charge of Sunday school activities, so I had to figure out how to transition Sunday school into an online…

I interpret “Claydol” not as a portmanteau of “clay” and “doll,” but rather of “clay” and “idol,” which is a better and more meaningful pun in English.

I loved the atmosphere, the character models, (much of) the dialogue, the dynamic and orchestrated music, and the delight of seeing the little Lego people transformed into actual people. I’ve been looking forward to this game for a long time, because I loved FFVII, and I’ve always wanted a more fleshed-out version of…

I’ve always wanted a slime controller.

I love it. I, for one, would greatly enjoy seeing more equal-opportunity ass. No one would write an article about this fashion choice if Ashley Riot were a female character.

This series has been on my “to-play” list for ages, but knowing it has awesome music makes it more likely that I’ll jump into it after I beat something else in my log. Music makes or breaks an RPG for me. I have played games JUST because one of my favorite composers was onboard. Right now I’m playing Suikoden 1, which…

As a historian and scholar of late medieval and early modern British history, I get real mad about this bullshit surrounding “historical accuracy.” Black people did exist in medieval and early modern Europe. One of Europe’s big trading partners was Morocco. Black people interacted and lived with these majority white…

I guess the female-presenting avatar misplaced her pants...?