While TPC creating artificial scarcity certainly doesn’t help, scalpers/resellers are ruining everything, not just Pokemon. Before COVID I noticed it with my usual hobbies that have always had this issue, LEGO sets that just release and FOMO, import figures like Mafex, Figuarts, and Hot Toys, along with other…

Exactly.

That’s why I am not getting out of joy out of this chaos (well, beyond the fact that as a US citizen I’d like these elected fuckers to govern). Somehow, it is is always going to be the Dems’ fault, or evidence the system is broken, or anything other than the truth: repubs have shitty ideas and can’t even collectively a…

I mean a significant portion of Microsoft’s big brands involve the sort of game (often an RPG) where the main character is a cipher for the player to project themselves onto.  Honestly I like this sort of thing well enough that I’m fine without a MS Smash Brothers- I don’t even really care for the Nintendo Smash Bros.

If a person purposely fails to understand that “Israel as a people” are different than “Israel as a government” then it becomes easy to lie about someone like Tlaib and then misconstrue what she said for a gotcha sound bite.

She has not said anything that leading Israeli voices aren’t saying themselves. Public discourse needs to move beyond the immaturity of “If you say you like waffles, you must also be saying you hate pancakes”. Pointing out the inhuman conditions of Palestine is not the same as erasing the horrors Israel faced during…

“Thou shall not lie... unless it’s about a thing I dislike, don’t understand, or believe I should have total control over.” - Republican Commandments

I found that rather jarring myself. My first thought was: what does “serving cunt” mean, anyway? I wondered whether the c-word was simply used in place of “women.” Surely not? As in, the suit would not only keep the wearer alive, but would also serve the women who would be wearing it, because (unlike the old suits) it…

Plus, the game was an unknown gamble back then, too. The video game voice acing ‘industry’ was in its infancy. CD based games with the ability to have full voiced characters was less than 4 years old since the PS1 came out in 1994 and MGS was in development starting in 1995 with release in 1998. Previously, any…

Not to mention, it was a much much different time now than it was in 1998.

In Diablo’s case the series, hell the entire genre is entirely about grinding.  It’s not padding, it’s the meat of the game.

“My personal beliefs mean that I can object to treating a patient.”

You don't have to like Ukraine to want to prevent Russian expansion and Putin destabilizing a region to line his own pockets. Why is this so hard for people to understand?

Some fans are joking that the pack is so outrageous it’s an intelligence test to see who actually buys it

So management thought dumping crazy amounts of money into free game giveaways and exclusives, cancelling every in development game besides Fortnite, and starting a legal war with Apple would pay off, and it hasn’t.

I want to add that Patlabor comes in two flavors and multiple continuities, but mostly:

Lets all love Lain.

Which I feel kind of ruins the whole concept of gaming on your phone... isn’t the point for it to be portable?

Generally the cost of physical media are overestimated. It costs about $4 or so per game, and that’s erring on the high side. There are, or at least were, massive economies of scale that minimized that cost for publishers. Unsold boxed items sitting on store shelves probably cost the retailers more than it cost the…

If you’re having actual trouble with making money in a Bethesda game, you’re not playing it right.