Are they? Do we know much about the revamp? I have issues with straight up rotation combat but otherwise this game is interesting to me (heard a lot of good things). I really liked Blade and Soul combat, but everything else about it drives me crazy. Honestly, I’m just incredibly picky about MMOs in general, but the…

It’s a lot of fun, especially if you get a big enough group of friends over to play it on the couch :)

I think part of the difference between us is that I think of that value system as politics (this is incredibly simplified...but as a general idea it works), and you think of it as something distinct from it. It is therefore my belief that in that value system anything human is created and discussing those values is…

To work with your claim that economics don’t need politics...I can give a quick example of how I think about it. Both economics and politics revolve around ideas of value. How we value any particular quality, object, person, etc. runs at the center of these ideas. Economics, in order to function, NEEDS this value…

I’m not making a mistake, I’m basing the idea on many different writers, ranging from Karl Marx to Edward Said (among many many others). It is something that is discussed a lot in political and literary theory and honesty, I’ve yet to see a convincing argument that does separate them. There is a long tradition of…

Ok...I don’t know if anybody has already said this (it’s a really long thread and I’m pretty busy...I read a lot, but not all). Even in your shortest novel ever, there is, at minimal, a political context in the very fact that the shoes are for sale. The very fact that the economic structure revolves around sale and…

One of the things I love about the Daily Show, Samantha Bee, and John Oliver is that it is more than comedy they are doing. Ideally, they get people to question authority with their humor...they show situations in politics and business for the ridiculous things they are. This becomes especially important in an era…

This...Xenoblade Chronicles X ended up boring me a lot more than I would have ever expected. There just wasn’t enough narrative to keep me involved, even when I liked some of the mechanics.

Exactly. I’m loving the color of this so far. I’ve gotten so tired of brown and grey games that any amount of color makes me want to jump for joy.

It has multiplayer...at least according to Gameinformer. In their month long thing one of their articles was called “Five Major Changes to Mass Effect’s Multiplayer.”

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Hey, just had a probably not very quick question. Awhile ago there was a rather legitimate criticism of the comments of one of the developers in relation to having women in the game. It, honestly, was a dumb comment on his part and a bad way to frame a narrative about guys (you can absolutely say you want to make a…

I’m really only going to respond to two of your comments (the others either don’t really need a reply or aren’t really worth bringing up further at this juncture).

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I just have an issue with the idea that people who care about these issues aren’t people who play videogames. It’s a bullshit response that tries to delegitimize the argument without actually interacting with it. Rather than actually trying to argue the point, you say the other side doesn’t play and therefore has no…

Blegh!

Ok...woohoo...new PS4 and all that...but my god that Horizon gameplay. I’m really looking forward to that game :).

Sure, but even when we look at muscular guys, we have several different body types. We have the slim and agile (Legolas style), the standard athletic (Nathan Drake), and the bulky strong (Marcus Fenix) with derivations of each of those that adjust things.

True, but consider percentages. We have a significant number of male characters who look nothing like movie stars. They can be monsters, fat, disturbing,etc. Just look at DOTA, LOL or Smite for examples. Hell, even among movie star good looking characters there is a decent amount of diversityour. You have the bulky…

As a kid, I would sneak out of my bedroom late at night to hide behind the couch. My parents were kinda awesome, they’d be sitting in specially bought chairs in the middle of the living room, playing video games, and specifically playing early RPGs on the Sega system. The one I remember the most, partially from…