I think your friend is theory crafting poorly. I also theory craft the shit out of movies, but I also take note of the individual emotional impacts of scenes, because figuring out the artistic intent of individual scenes in the context of the whole story is a fun theory crafting exercise in and of itself. When scenes…

My GF was like “is that purple guy going to be in the movie?” I was like “Nah Hawkeye isn’t showing up”.

It’s literally tied with 2 on rotten tomatoes last I checked. It is in fact, good.

Overpopulation is not a one way street, it assumes a population always reproduces at a constant upward rate, but that’s not true. It’s becoming increasingly common for developed countries in the world to literally have the opposite problem: Japan needs to boost their birth rate because people are not having enough…

Does that make it better? The fact that Quill repeatedly fucks up and never improves his disposition? Because that grinds my gears so so hard.

I want to debate point #2. The nature of fighting game combos is that matches are generally not decided at 0% HP. When a combo can do 20% damage, the deciding hit is at 20% HP barring input mistakes, and input mistakes are extremely rare at high levels. Add in cinematic finishes that take a while to complete but will…

The real issue here seems less about greed and more about the devs deliberately trying to waste your time to cover for lack of actual content. These timers seem to be deliberately designed to prevent fun. And where other idle games use timers to pace player interaction somewhat, this game is happy to kill your session…

I’ve seen grocery grab bags before, we used to have a service that would ship a box of assorted local veggies to you once a week or so. You could specifically opt in to customize your produce but they were random by default. We got lots of chard we had to get creative with but it was kinda fun.

There’s that one time in Yakuza 4 where you try to prevent a suicidal guy from jumping off the roof of a building by beating some sense into him, and you can end that fight by throwing him off the the same roof. Then the guy is fine and on top of the building and cops come to congratulate you on how non-lethally you…

I mean we all clicked this article too.

In a way, fortune cookies is a start to introducing that randomness, since this is the first feature that doesn’t have fixed progression towards every item. Everyone is guaranteed to get a subset of everything offered, but only whales can attempt to reliably grab everything. Part of me thinks that loot box fortune…

I mean F2P games have given me some of my best time in gaming for the price of zero dollars, especially back when I was a poor college student, so I guess I did ask for this? I don’t like the thought of whales overspending to pay for my entertainment, but getting games for literally free has been an amazing time.

Blizzard is a private entity, the metric for what constitutes hate speech is whatever Blizzard wants the metric to be, and whatever keeps their game successful and profitable. They don’t have an obligation to keep all of their customers happy because they are not a government, they can refuse service to customers…

But the Oasis is basically second life/vrchat, it doesn’t replicate the authentic internet experience unless everything hurts slightly to look at.

I mean, it’s also an adult drink in the West for the same reasons, no?

They kind of screwed themselves out of being able to adapt the animated origin. The animated origin saves time by starting in a universe where most of the heroes were public and vaguely knew each other, so you save a lot of time on introductions even if the audience didn’t necessarily know everyone. BvS explicitly…

I have to disagree, my GF and I had no fun with Avengers 2 precisely because it tried too hard and flopped across the board. Hulk whisperer Black Widow came out of nowhere and was such an awkward subplot. Ultron was underdeveloped for anyone without prior comics knowledge. Hawkeye was so busy trying to be relevant he…

I personally liked Ares in WW a lot, he’s not so much a traditional villain but a thematic one. He poses a direct challenge to Diana’s entire world view the moment he reveals himself, and for all intents and purposes succeeds in showing Diana the depths of her naivety. You get a sense that his powers allowed him to…

Games are optimized for holding attention, you are asking for teachers to out perform the most highly optimized attention holders on the market.

It can be self taught, speaking from personal experience, but you have to have not completely shit textbooks. If anything high school math is the one subject that can be directly gamified since it’s all questions and unambiguous answers. None of that English class creative writing there are no wrong answers except my…