One of the most infuriating excuses I heard for this incidents is “Well, he/she had a batton/scissor/knife/whatever that’s not a fire arm...”

I’m with you, solely because I hate the combat and inventory.

Laws don’t dictate morality, they dictate what ppl want,

As I mention to someone else above, I could talk about any of the questions they brought up in the podcast at length — in particular, in the period I was at LucasArts, we ended on a fixed function pipeline for Republic Commando. (Which was sort of the question.) Shaders were coming but weren’t in widespread use and I…

That’s a good point! I feel like anything those guys asked me I could have talked about for an hour. (Which is partly why I host a podcast with a buddy where we talk about older games — so we have the room to talk about topics in greater depth if we want.)

It wasn’t just the capabilities of the hardware that improved in that time frame though. It was the capabilities of the production pipeline as well. UV unwrapping and mapping was a mess. Painting directly onto 3d meshes was in its infancy. Proper render-channel baking, same deal. And then you could do all those…

Some impressions after playing on Switch docked with the patch last night - I’ve always had more frame rate issues docked than in handheld mode, and they’re easier to notice on the big screen.

Lots of coffee.

If you want one console, and you want the most mainstream games, it is true Nintendo products don’t make sense, nor have they since SNES.

Imagining Miles in a black ninja outfit. “Of all the bloody stupid things I’ve let you talk me into over the years, this is the bloody stupidest of them all. The League Of Shadows, really?”

Removing his first branch of government, probably the judicial one.

It’s actually a live stream of his first day in office.

If you or someone around you needs help there are people that you can call.

National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

It’s not really clear how long Rey and Chewbacca’s journey was, we don’t know what’s going on with the New Republic, and the First Order is almost certainly on their way to wipe out the Resistance. There’s lots of material there for an opening crawl.

Considering that the Republic government just got blown up in the first phase of a New Order plan to reconquer the galaxy, I’m sure that there will be plenty of things to include in the crawl.

I do not envy these people. It’s raw and sensitve as hell and no matter what choice they make it’ll be the wrong one to a number of people.

You may think this is a joke, but I’ve had lots of people ask me if the new Star Wars movie coming out on December 16 is the sequel to The Force Awakens. It’s not. That’s coming a year from now. And I sincerely doubt we’ll even be getting an Episode VIII teaser in front of Rogue One, so don’t hold your breath to see…

It’s both mentioned and linked. And I wrote a piece about it on Thanksgiving.