My problem with it wasn’t the outfit per se, even though there’s obviously plenty to be said about hypersexualization of female characters and the like; it’s not that I didn’t object to it, but at that point it was very much an issue of screaming into the wind. My problem was more that Kojima was trying to treat…

I enjoyed the one where you give the blind lady one of the robo-dogs as a companion animal

Yeah, they’ve definitely made it so you need to create your own breathing room occasionally. Like none of the enemy groups ‘wait their turn’ to the same degree that they often did in the first game. I’ve just found myself dying much more often in this one than in the previous.

I think I need to upgrade my tech apparently, lol

I’m at the part where the symbiotes have been unleashed, and tbh, I don’t know if they really are this annoying or if I’m just starting to be unable to ‘git gud’ anymore, but jfc they feel obnoxious as hell. Just constantly swarming you en masse, very little breathing room, the green ones that you just straight up…

Parasocial relationships in the era of streaming content are largely not healthy for sure; regular people definitely need to get over this notion that they actually know or are friends with streamers/content creators.

So is it being brewed with her yeast or with lactobacillus? Either way, novelty aside.... eh. They will both do what yeast and bacteria do in any other situation. It’s designed to get the ‘Ew gross genitals’ reaction, not to become a six pack picked up on the way to a party, so she’s getting exactly what she wants out…

I mean, it has been a long damn time since anything other than the alternate, optional levels in a mainline Mario game have been all that difficult, so I'm not sure why people are surprised here?

I would assume they’re referring to the cost of replacing the battery pack, which depending on how old the car is when you get it, the model, and luck, may end up costing you $10-16k.  Not getting into the pros or cons of that particular argument, but I can promise you that cost is what a lot of people think about and…

EV sales have cooled off because they’re still an expensive ask for anyone who wants a car younger than 10 years with under 100k miles and makes under $100k a year and also often require you to rewire your house. They were bound to cool off once you got past the audience of people who can easily afford a decent one.

What are you even talking about? “Colonizer” has been in use as a political term for decades.  You can now return to your regularly scheduled program of being wrong about things.

Spoken like a true white person

I still wish they'd been able to include Twin Snakes.  It's hard to go back to the original after the QOL improvements in that version.

I didn’t really get tired of swinging either until towards the end? By which I mean Spider-Man was one of those rare few games where I actually wanted to hunt down all the collectibles, and at a certain point I was just like “I am not manually swinging all the way back up to the northern end of Manhattan from the…

The lack of loading times itself is cool, but admittedly I will still miss the subway scenes from the first game.  I liked how they transitioned from Spider-Man riding inside the subway car to the outside as the mercenaries took control of the city.

This is a legitimate question, I’m not trying to be an asshole, but does the gardener robot (which is very cool) count as cosplay? Seems more like a puppet being controlled from the back. Just wasn’t sure if there was a difference or if the cosplay community draws that level of distinction.

Other drivers are a far bigger danger to motorcyclists than motorcycles themselves. One of the wisest instructions I ever received for being on my bike was to drive like everyone else on the road is actively trying to murder you.

What actually makes this the “Akira slide” though, I don’t get it?  Is the only criteria the framing?  Because she isn’t facing the right way and everything else about the scene screams someone just losing control of their bike and trying to put their foot down, not trying to do the Badass Skid Stop.

South Park has been exhausting for well over a decade, ever since they leaned into the “having opinions about things is dumb and for losers” schtick.

If this isn’t the laziest explanation I’ve ever heard, it’s certainly a podium contender.