A human cleric of Lolth? That don’t sound right.

I didn’t know they had doggos in ancient Japan!

I can’t think of a single person who’d understand the unbearable weight of massive talent better than Nicolas Cage.

China doesn’t have an open internet where people can find out why the government might be censoring these things, so it doesn’t matter.

And now you’re going to eat that drive? Let us know how it was

They also, even more indirectly, announced Kirby Fighters 1 to me in particular.

That’s it, that’s the one!

That’s it, that’s the one!

Those are Mr. Walker’s words, not Mr. Meier’s.

None of the quotes in the article say there was no bug, they just explain the ways the AI’s behavior could contribute to the impression that Civ I Gandhi loved nukes. If Sid Meier actually says in the books there is no wraparound value bug in Civ I, that’s not a quote I see in the article.

I think, to clarify, nuke-happy Gandhi wasn’t really a thing the the first game. The bug maxxed-out his aggression, yes, but it didn’t give him any particular affinity for nuclear weapons. It was the subsequent games that made him so nuke-happy as a reference to the bug.

My thoughts go more towards the other famous Jeff Goldblum line from that movie...

I’m not mad that this original level sucks in the new remake. This is just another point in the game’s favor. The developers so accurately recreated the THPS 1+2 experience that they also recreated how badly designed and unfun Downhill Jam is and that should be applauded.

Considering the crazy stuff that goes on in that franchise, “covered in Evangelion” brings to mind some disturbing imagery indeed.

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Cold War, a game that seriously needs some colloquial shorthand,

Cypher’s a character that’s intimately familiar with the Machines and the Matrix; he’s been fighting them long enough to truly regret taking the red pill and he can make sense of the falling Matrix code. If he believes the Machines can alter memories that says to me that they likely can.

Neo thinks the whole encounter with the agents was a dream until the resistance extracts the tracker from him, and Cypher specifically asks for his memory to be altered. Cypher is a character who would know what the machines are capable of; there’s more than enough to suggest the Machines are capable of altering human…

That’s not the same thing. I’m saying it doesn’t make sense for the machines to let the humans die in real life if they die in the Matrix, not that the humans shouldn’t be able to die in the Matrix. They would just have do some memory modifications to cover up the change, and if there’s some reason they can’t or…

It’s true that the Machines using the humans to generate power doesn’t pass the smell test either, but ultimately that’s just a MacGuffin; it doesn’t really matter to the story *why* the Machines need the humans alive, only that they do. And feeding the humans the remains of the dead does a decent job of…

(You should also read Oxford’s deep dive into masterfully the Chrono Cross’ atmosphere and mood underline the tragedy at the heart of it).