Yeah this has basically made it impossible to talk about the actual harassment issues esports and the gaming community at large has because guys just want to point out that the people harassing “Ellie” were right.

Kind of a shame with LiA. I was an avid XIV player (stopped a few months back) so I understood many of their references and I loved the art, but I just rarely found it funny or entertaining.

I hope it turns out well for them, but we’ve seen the “Top designer(s) from (high profile company) leave and make their own game” thing play out badly too often. I always assumed it was because the devs found themselves with too much freedom and too little oversight, being given basically a blank check by the new…

Holy crap did they win that one. They didn’t just beat HD-DVD, they basically scoured it from human memory. It is super common for me to meet people who don’t even know what I’m referring to. Or just think “HD-DVD” is some sort of old-person way to describe a blu-ray. I had a long discussion with some folks just the…

Yeah I picked up one physical ship (the Lance) because it was really cool looking and only a few bucks more than the digital version, but I kind of regret it. I appreciate that they did this system instead of a “registered once, and that’s it” system, but it is very inconvenient to reattach it just to show that I own…

I’ve got to say, I really really want to love this game. But it is very hard for me to move it out of the “I just like it” category. I haven’t played much of it, and am going to start from scratch now that this new update is out, and I hope that update and starting over with more weapons (picked a few up on sale) makes…

You know, your posts about XIV make me want to go back more than anything else (I stopped a few months ago just before the second Eureka zone), but I keep remembering how hard it was for me to find moments like this in mmo communities. I love dungeons and leveling and grinding (to an extent) but the weird and fun…

Yeah I just wish Spirits had a little bit of info on the character/item they’re showing. I think it would help hook people in to looking in to some of these older gems that they either missed or never got localized. I mean, how many more people got in to FE or Earthbound because of the Smash games?

Most women generally ask for their partner to abstain in their presence more than totally abstain. Makes it easier for them to avoid alcohol and caffeine cravings. Sometimes it is even just a matter of not keeping any in the house. I know a few people who’ve also used this as a good time to wean them and their spouse…

I’d definitely love more of the older FE games getting released over here. Especially if we get ones that keep that 80/90's fantasy anime artwork. I still love the new ones, but I miss that older animation style.

I can’t believe we got Captain Rainbow spirits in SmashU. Those two images alone should be enough for people to want to see what this game is.

Part of it is that was a time when we didn’t have the culture of our youth constantly maintained via the internet. 10 years ago from now doesn’t seem that far off because we’re constantly being reminded of it and able to relive big parts of it (TV, movies, music, games) whenever we want to. The demarcation between…

Someone’s final smash should be one of those Great Fairy fountain WMDs.

I really want custom stages to come back so I can do Smashketball again. That was my favorite custom game setting. In my group we’d do the normal one where you play with any character, and we’d do one where each of us was DK with a CPU orange Kirby set to no AI and use Kirby as the ball. Only KOs againts Kirby counted.

Aw man....now I’m sad because I know we won’t get one.

It was based on a Frank Baum book from 1902, which is even more insane than the movie. Santa is raised by a sentient lioness and a wood nymph, befriends gnomes and other fairy folk, there’s evil demons who can turn invisible, a “supreme immortal” gandalf-esque woodsman, a court of fae lords, a war with the…

Based off of the first book of the Dragon Knight series by Gordon R Dickson, The Dragon and the George. Very bizarre fantasy books that liked to still cement themselves in historical Europe. I was a big fan of them as a kid. Fun take on the magic system too. One of my first exposures to the “supernatural bureaucracy”…

While Blizzard is definitely making mistakes and we shouldn’t be jumping straight to the whole “Rargh! Down with the big evil publisher!” routine, do you think the “big evil publisher” is using these mistakes as a way to exert more control over Blizzard? I never really worried about Blizzard’s mistakes before, no…

I feel like WoW has just gone on too long and developed in to such a different idea in all the fans’ minds. I mean they’ve always had that divide between the PVP crowd, the raiding crowd, and the story/pve crowd. Every expansion those groups become more and more divided and end up all having very different ideas about…