On one hand: players of any game tend to lack proportionality, and massively-multiplayer online players even more so. So the complaints are often histrionic, self-centered, etc.

So I think in terms of Lee and Kirby’s introduction of the character that from the outset it really escaped the bounds of Tarzan-cliches, and that’s what’s let the character grow. Like Evan, I don’t know exactly how to credit that, or whether it was just dumb luck, because the character definitely skirts the edges of…

Why, it’s an

A version of Outpost that actually works! 21 years later than promised, but ok, better late than never.

Actually, I just read Gromann’s notes on the images. I appreciate that he’s trying to develop a game design and visuals in an African setting, but I think he’s going out of his way to invent an entirely imaginary or hypothetical setting when he could very easily use a real historical example that would give him some…

Professor reacts poorly to being hauled into a Title IX proceeding for having written an essay with which some disagree? In what way did “professor react poorly” to this development? What would you call “reacting well”? Saying, “Thank you, I needed to be accused of violating the rights of students in an opaque…

I remember, roughly around the fifth or sixth time I got shoved into a chain link fence and had my face dragged along it in fifth grade, reading John Bellairs' The House With a Clock in Its Walls and The Figure in the Shadows. I identified with Lewis in many ways, though not all of them (not the least because I didn't…

It's important to do an in-house rethink at Gawker Media about how to reduce the rate of this kind of unambiguously incorrect reporting, because it is hurting the causes that the stories are meant to help. This is not just one reporter's error, it is a pattern across Gawker Media's sites. When reporters at various…

Please tell me that the story and characterization is better. I couldn't stand FC3's loathsomely stupid protagonist and the stereotypes that surrounded him. I also got tired of having to have him do absolutely idiotic things in order to get to the next area or content.

Wartortle at Victoria Falls.