ESPN comments used to be terrible when you didn’t have to have a Facebook account to comment (I think that’s what it was). SB Nation is definitely where the rational sports fans go. But, you go on Twitter or go to bars and stuff like that and the fans can be awwwwwful.

I’m mostly a college football and NHL fan and those are more popular/make more money than they basically ever have to that was where I was coming from when I said booming, but it’s probably not THAT dramatic an ascension. But yeah, I probably should have just said “hugely popular”

Well, with the rise of social media, shitty fans have found a new outlet that’s pretty similar to Twitch chat.

Yeah but you can totally gank those noobs if they’re being racist assholes in Hearthstone and LoL!*

If “booming” isn’t the right word (and I feel like they are booming, but maybe not), just change “booming” to “not niche” and the same point gets across. I dunno if it’s the shittiness of the fans that are putting people off eSports because shitty fans in normal sports hasn’t had any effect there

Wanna ensure something stays niche? Try doing nothing while the lowest common denominator of your audience alienates massive portions of the human population on a regular goddamn basis.

What the fuck?

Yep, always have preferred the Madame, it’s a lot better

Thanks to Final Fantasy tanking harder than a SEC football player taking a Physics exam during the previous gen,

Nier should be on here, except maybe it’s hitting cult status and not “underappreciated” anymore, going by how many other commenters are bringing it up. Just bought a new copy yesterday so I can play it when Automata comes out.

Completely agree, and I fucking love pickles. Pickles better be standard with the meal already, if you’re forcing me to use up one of my sides for pickles you’re doing it wrong

Oh god so excited, not sure if I wanna get the new 3DS though...can’t tell if I like it more than the 4U one I have

Even if I was unemployed or comfortably retired at an early age I don’t think I’d reach that number that fast

897 sessions over 3 years seems low? Damn

Lime/Black is awesome but come on when are we going to get a forest green handheld?!?

I’d say the difference is that this was never slated to come out soon. I think right away they came out and said “this isn’t going to be out til after Witcher 3"

Ohhh ok that’s a better way to do it lol

I wonder if it’ll be easy to mod to include the original music tracks

I’m suuuure this will probably be better than the PS3 version, right? I mean I’ll probably end up getting it on the PC but SE’s ports haven’t been amazing, and I don’t have toooooo many PS3 games so a tiny bit of buyer’s remorse there (though at least it was only like $100)

Maybe I’m blind but how does the 1070 compare to the 980? And wonder how much those are going to drop for. I’m thinking of moving up to 1440p but I’ve always had AMD cards, but this stuff does seem interesting. Maybe a 1070 or a 980 after a price drop? The most intensive game I have is probably Witcher 3, wonder what…