I think the 2ch person, hits the nail on the head. I’d love to think it was some kind of positive shift in the culture in creating likable but also 3-dimensional women who are just as integral to the main characters growth as the villain.

But the constantly disappointed anime fan within me just thinks the fetish…

KotOR II is New Vegas to KotOR I’s Fallout 3: it eschews the tried-and-true story in order to blaze new one all its own, and it’s far greater for it. I wish Obsidian had had the technical expertise and wherewithal to better express their vision, because it’s easily the best story any Star Wars game has ever told.

In the plus column; no beatboxing from Andy this week.

Anecdote: Kotaku has been pretty much my go-to source for the last 8 years give or take. My Discord filled with guildmates and other online gaming friends have some kind of Rage-Boner for the site. Something I’m reminded of everytime I try and share an article of something cool and they freak out.

I’m okay with it. Let Thor go off and do fun stuff on his own. Every single Marvel headliner doesn’t need a Recognizable Attractive Actress romance sub-plot - most of the time they’re only there so Marvel’s movies won’t be complete sausage fests.

I legit avoid like...85% of anime the milisecond I see a Loli/little sister type because I’ve seen enough anime in my 30+ existence to know that they’re going to fanservice her up to shit. I don’t care if it ‘gets better.’ or is ‘Really good!’ I won’t even try.

Stan Lieber came of age in an era where Jewish writers faced discrimination, so he took an Anglo-sounding name. So right from the jump this is a really bad analogy.

Come on, Maddy, if your rosters are not full of people getting stuffed with cortisone and pills then bashing their heads in to devolve their brain development to that of an 80-year-old with Alzheimer’s at age 41, all while pizza sponsors take a stand over kneelers (heh) and a president demands the POC players lose…

Yeah, Celebrimbor had it out for that jerk in The Shadow of Mordor!

He was also in the first season of Netflix’s Iron Fist, in a fight scene with Justin Timberlake..I mean Iron Fist..lol

Yes, Shadow of Mordor (and now Shadow of War also) is pretty underwhelming as an open world game. If I didn’t find the combat so addictive and the Nemesis system (truly the one great idea in that game) so compelling, I don’t think I would play them. I will say that the world in Shadow of War is truly nice-looking and…

Alpha Protocol is complete (although there are decision trees that make it seem less complete, you can choose to have your guy miss the plot). It mostly suffers from an extreme version of the morrowind problem, where it looks like an over the shoulder shooter, but is really a die roll based rpg, which makes it seem…

The only paid costumes here are Moira and Doomfist. Everyone else is attending as a fan, and those costumes were the result of weeks and sometimes months of passion, blood, sweat and tears.

Fine. The star and the rimshot are yours. Take them.

Yeah, but did he send used condoms to his co-stars? That’s the mark of an actor truly getting into character.

This sucks in a way that’s hard to put into words. Halladay is someone I’d have driven to Cooperstown to see his induction. A personal hero from back when I still had those.

I love the Ref, it’s one of my must-sees every Christmas. The ending is ridiculous and sappy, but the rest of it is taut awesomeness.

B. If there really was a “labor shortage”, why fix it by forcing women to carry unwanted pregnancies when you could just, like, allow workers to immigrate here?