I don’t know what I’m misinterpreting about being explicitly told I cannot be a feminist, and also I’m not claiming to be oppressed. I’m just saying I reject that logic.

I’ll probably keep self-identifying as feminist despite not being allowed to.

Venus is only like ten light-minutes from Earth at its furthest distance. So really they only needed to be going an appreciable *fraction* of the speed of light

Same. I played for about 50 or 60 hours at launch and felt it was money well spent. It was a bit empty to hold my attention for a huge amount of time, but the aimless wandering and thrill of discovery definitely carried me through for a while. One of these days I’ll revisit it to experience the new stuff.

People are caring about things that I don’t care about! I have to stop them.

The point being, this is an obvious category error. The players aren’t a real government, they’re a simulated government. If the game provides enough of a framework that people are inspired to simulate a government, then for the purposes of the game, that simulated government exists. Whether *you* think that the game…

The purpose of a gun is to provide self-defense, act as a tool for hunting, and provide entertainment at a gun range. None of those things exist in Call of Duty. “Shooting” is basically limited to players’ avatars pretending to shoot each other and then pretending to respawn and try again. I don’t really see how a…

I haven’t played “Doki Doki” yet but I just tried out “the uncle” because of this comment and holy shit. I am terrible at interactive fiction games but I stuck through to get every ending, and read the author’s notes. It was just about a perfect bite-sized IF game and truly unsettling even after multiple playthroughs.

I saw it with my girlfriend; personally I don’t watch anime much at all, and I thought it was gorgeous and moving.

Because Ozymandias is not a good vessel for racism or misogyny.

People forget that for all its ridiculous twists, the original Twilight Zone had a decent chunk of episodes with happy endings too. It seems more honest and more thoughtful, to acknowledge that for all the problems created by technology, they also have tremendous capacity to make the world better.

He’s not saying it’s Diablo 3's “fault,” he’s just saying it can still be a bad game in spite of how long he has played it - if he found the gameplay loop highly addictive without actually feeling like it was meaningful or well-executed. I watch entire seasons of Master Chef despite the fact that it is utter garbage;…

It is possible to win the mirror if you can burn a dead man’s hand with coldlight oracle. But with decent play that should be not very likely. My strategy in the mirror is to cycle my deck as fast as possible to just coldlight and shield block, then dead man’s hand for exponential coldlights, and then play as many as…

I love this deck. Concept and execution. It’s like the ultimate control deck. I’m just utterly miserable with it; I have something like a 30% win rate after 60 games. It’s really remarkably demanding in terms of skill.

Europa Universalis IV. I’m still pretty new to the game; I’ve only sunk about 1500 hours into it.

A movie reviewer I enjoy uses a positive-negative scale, with negatives indicating ironic enjoyment (Rocky Horror is, say, a -8, while merely bad movies like Chronicles of Riddick are more like a -2).

.... that is, in fact, the exact argument being made in the article.

The most important unit in civ 6 are horsemen, not archers, both because of their ridiculously disproportionate combat strength, few prereqs and high mobility (movement is much harder in 6). Also additional tile yields are less important the later you get them and (prior to the patch changes at least) you’re not…

If a chaotic neutral character has no motivations then that’s a problem with bad role-playing. Chaotic neutral characters could just be not driven by strong moral concerns, or they could be a fun-loving libertine, or a selfish rogue, or a wrathful Paladin whose only goal is revenge. The Ferengi are chaotic neutral.…

Good news, friend! Overwatch is not a MOBA.