$4,000 sounds more like what you would get for an extended cameo, so it kind of implies they had no plans to continue with Taylor as the main VA regardless, presumably making her one of the variant Bayonettas as a reference instead of the main character. Hale DEFINITELY would cost far more, so I can only assume…

Apparently, it took $400 just to file the case, and four years to win, assuming the case isn’t appealed. All for $3,750 in damages, presumably without lawyer’s fees (though that was sought.)

Man, none of these interest me. Back to playing Skyrim, I guess...

Yes, he made mistakes: the question is if Niemann satisfactorily managed to explain how he managed to capitalize on them, which is the big debate. It wouldn’t be a problem if Niemann hadn’t cheated in the past, but he did, and Niemann is good enough that even something as simple as the word “pawn” would allow him to…

I don’t know about you guys, but I TOTALLY remember Starcraft looking like that!

Yeah, I doubt there are ways to fix the online problems without dedicated servers for the actual matches, and Nintendo clearly doesn’t want to bother: they usually just lower the tick rate, which makes the connection more stable, and thus less noticeable when connections are dicey, but the peer-to-peer problems…

I am very confused: why would a venue contract for 2021 be meaningful for an event in 2023? And wouldn’t have AGDQ known all this a year ago, when they should have been able to schedule something somewhere else fairly straightforwardly?

If Galadriel had actually found Sauron at Forodwaith, he would have killed her, and probably with ease; Galadriel never struck me as someone who’s supposed to be THAT incompetent, but she is now, I guess.

I can appreciate it being difficult to be entertaining 8 hours a day, but most of the streamers I pay attention to “only” do about 3 hours semi-regularly, so I’m not really sure why a professional wouldn’t be able to do the same.

Yeah yeah, Yen forever and all, but, Gwent can make everybody on the planet nod with just one sentence, and I’m madly attracted to such incredible power.

Well, at least they got tricked by an actual girl, instead of the usual dog pretending to be a Nigerian Prince pretending to be a girl...

The parents acted that way because of the village superstition, and I doubt they’d accept someone deciding their own gender, so the point probably still stands.

This seems like the kind of thing that needs to be aggressively degenerate to work...

Plenty of visual novels also manage to have surprisingly good gameplay, so it’s worth pointing out when that isn’t the case.

Crunchyroll is owned by Sony, but if Crunchyroll was sold, Right Stuf would presumably go with it, not stay with Sony.

I get the feeling they left that plot hook open exactly because it’s an obvious sequel, or DLC.

More specifically, Microsoft wanted the online architecture and related expertise, but yeah, Call of Duty is nothing compared to the kind of bank the mobile games bring in.

The robots are adopting human aesthetics and behaviors without understanding them: the robots don’t know *why* humans would dream of being farmers, or fishermen, but the robots know that the humans felt such things were important, and so took after them.

Something important: Unity’s own Ad system was apparently fed bad data, and while Unity claimed to be fixing it, it wouldn’t be surprising if Unity simply lacked the expertise to do so quickly, or even fix whatever caused the problem in the first place.

-Songs of Conquest is incredibly fun, though the story missions aren’t finished yet.