Yeah, I thought they were at least somewhat popular since they were tied up with Walmart for so long. Vudu branding was all over their electronics department at one time.

Barely remembered to use? Confusing name? What’s wrong with y’all?

Meanwhile, Gal Gadot hums to herself, content with the state of all things.

Super what? Don’t care. No, don’t want to see it. Just flush the damn thing, I need a writeoff for a new vacation island.

A Superman movie is no place for someone who stands up for what’s right.

Is it OK to think that both Hamas leadership and Netanyahu’s administration ought to spend the rest of their lives in uncomfortable confinement in a remote, very secure prison? I don’t know the best path to peace in that troubled region, but that seems like a good start.

Kassandra from Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. She’ll sleep with anything that has a heartbeat, so I’m thinking I might actually have a chance with her IRL.

So I instinctively excluded actual potential romantic options from my list as there I would rather think how well that story is told than from a crush perspective.

I think you’re right about some of the best games coming out late in a console’s lifecycle, except that they’re calling it late and there’s nothing from Sony on the horizon. Undoubtedly games will be better, so where are theirs? Sucks, but hopefully they’ve got some stuff cooking for 2025.

“Also the fact that Gorelax the God of Death is currently set to destroy all of creation in a week and a half. I am kinda not looking to engage in a relationship right now”

Man, my PS5 still feels like a newish addition to my console collection. I have no desire for an upgrade. It doesn't even feel like games are pushing it to its limits yet.

I prefer the Inquisition take on game romance. It feels more real for the characters to have different sexualities. Not everyone is into the player character, and the characters can form their own relationships with each other. Sera can get with the dwarf scout, Dorian and Bull can end up together.

I think that whirlwind romances would actually be the norm in these situations.  You have a bunch of people facing constant life-or-death situations, the odds that they hook up actually go up quite a bit.  The part where realism would interfere is that most of these relationships would likely come crashing down once…

As a sidenote, there are two assertions here that I do wish to push back on, at least a bit.

Basically Keith David in Saints Row 4. You can romance anyone in that game, except for him.

I would like to see more games where characters get into relationships that don’t involve the player. Aveline in Dragon Age 2 is a good example. When everyone else is just interested in the player, it’s refreshing to see Aveline actually get married and sort of move forward in her life. Meanwhile, everyone else that…

Give me the party member that shoots you down not because of gender or sexuality but because “You’re making it weird, just because we’re friends and adventuring buddies doesn’t mean I’m DTF”

For me, the Inquisition model is one of the more successful. Having a variety of characters of varying sexualities, so they can feel like real characters but the player still has choices. Obviously, everyone can’t do that because it’s expensive to fully flesh out that many romanceable characters, but like the article…

Hmm...I liked Arrow (well parts of it). He played a vigilante well. Don’t know if I buy Amell can play a charasmatic force of nature like Harvey Spector. Always thought he came off as a bit awkward when he tried to play the playboy role on Arrow. Never saw Heels so maybe he showed some of that there.

Can confirm, he can be a dick on set. Nothing scandalous or pearl-clutch-worthy, just… really, dude? His dickishness doesn’t hold up production though, so it’s kind of a “what are you gonna’ do?”-type deal.