I’ve played all of the other AC games. How does it compare to those? If you really enjoyed those, will you enjoy this one? 

You could plow through AC 5 with quad machine guns more or less, but that’s an outlier.

Thanks for the extensive and comforting write-up!

People are realizing From Software has only made two games for nearly 40 years, with varying levels of success. The West is in shock. WhoaaAOoao

He did NOT direct 200 episodes. If you combine the ones he acted in AND the ones he directed you get about 200. 

Sorry, an edit I made made the numbers unclear. Sony has been acquiring companies for decades - in the last ten years they acquired over $20B in companies and another 41 acquisitions with a hidden price.

Microsoft, which is twice as big as Sony

If you only care about what affects you as a consumer, that’s your prerogative. As someone who works in the media industry, I have a vested interest in news about media conglomerates and consolidation. And I understand that not everyone will care about that. However, workers always end up getting hurt before the…

You’re the one who is discounting the characters’ motivations towards wanting to see the other live and attributing the outcome to a zero-sum game the writers are playing as some kind of weird commentary on childless women.

Two things:

I don’t think I need to do anything to showcase the fragility

Its only fridging if two or more fridges talk to each about something other than food.

But the tropes don’t really identify patterns. People hear of a trope and end up square peg/round holing too much. Also the sheer volume of TV/comics/movies/books and the fact there’s a fairly well established story structure for them and mainly only a few truly universal motivations means there's always going to…

Wh...why am I mad...father?

How about Agent Coulson?  Or Vision, who died so that a female character would have motivation?

It happens. I’ve lent old cards out to friends who had their GPU crap out and just need a HDMI port.

I FEEL THAT IN MY BONES.

I bet a good chunk is foam. My 2080 ti packaging was SERIOUSLY over-foamed (and of course all the foam was glued in to make it virtually impossible to reuse or recycle). It wasn’t as ridiculous as the CPU for that system though, which came in a box in a large icosahedron in a box, and yes, I DO still have the…

Old PC component boxes really are a sickness... pretty sure I still have the box from my 8800 GT sitting around somewhere.

My parents stayed together too. My father beat my mother and us kids. My mother beat us kids. My father molested us. My mother drank herself to death at 47. My oldest brother died of a drug overdose. My other brother told me he killed people when he was a meth addict. He’s a neoconfederate, wants civil war. My…