it’s easy to get excited when I hear “Another World”

if nothing else the fiasco that was the community reaction to the launch gave us HBomberguy’s all-time classic “Angry Gamesmasher Reviews” video

I’M ENTITLED TO MY OPINION, AND THAT’S THE SAME THING AS BEING RIGHT!

WE HAVE TO PROTECT VIDEO GAMES FROM PEOPLE WHO DID SOCIAL STUDIES!

They’re significantly anti-tempo cards, and a deck that punishes that enough (combo or aggro) is perfectly happy for you to play them. If you want you can view them as like interactable enchantments, accruing value over time. As long as they’re balanced properly (and they aren’t always) they fit very well inside the…

The Witcher did this really well by talking about a “story” mode rather than an “easy” mode. Which I think is correct! Players who don’t want a mechanical grind, what are they in the game for? The experience, the world, the story! It feels less condescending and more welcoming.

everyone is nicer, everyone has ptsd

He's like acting Kryptonite. He makes everyone around him look worse.

The Ugly Truth is probably on my top ten worst movies I've seen. 

True, but that weight is almost entirely outside your control and has no effect on health and little on appearance. Losing fat weight is the thing.

If they want to force a romance, which makes me very skeptical anyway, why not let you choose what gender Darius' kid is? Adoption is a thing.

Bragging about enjoying porn with people who are technically legal is extremely fucking gross.

Call of Daddy

They were not cheating in the classical, or any, sense of the word.

“Ellie” was never accused of cheating. They were accused of not being a woman. Which is pretty different.

Let’s say I’m in a whimsical mood.

Okay, what’s a claim in the original article you think was insufficiently substantiated before it was reported? An actual quote, mind. Not your vague sense that the original article was unfair.

Journalists always report without knowing all the facts. It’s the role of a good journalist to say what we think we know, why we think we know it, and include any open questions like whether a source is unreliable, whether there are important people to a story who’ve been asked to comment and not done so yet, etc.…

The original article said that Second Wind hired “Ellie,” explained why people thought “Ellie” wasn’t who she purported to be, gave a quick summary of misogyny in e-sports, why it might be relevant to this case, and then quoted the reactions of the team and a few pro players. What exactly there is “going off half…

The original article said that Second Wind hired “Ellie,” explained why people thought “Ellie” wasn’t who she purported to be, gave a quick summary of misogyny in e-sports, why it might be relevant to this case, and then quoted the reactions of the team and a few pro players. What exactly there is “going off half…