I’ve played RDO2 as one of my few MMO’s for a while now, and while I’ve definitely heard people say some nasty stuff once or twice (very rarely, honestly), I have never actually encountered anyone pretending to be KKK. I’ve been playing for *checks social club* 14 days of game time, and I’ve never seen it.

To all the…

100% this ^^^

To be fair, for someone working in gaming journalism, a Nintendo account is actually work-related.

I know you don’t want advice, but let me just say - get yourself Authy or another cloud-syncing 2FA client. Google Auth is hot garbage precisely because it doesn’t sync to anything and you have to manually move all your logins to another app.

“Why don’t we empathize with the dude and his friends accused of system misogyny and sexual harrassment? They may or may not have known that Bill Cosby is a rapist? Isn’t that sad for them?”

Douche bro culture is like that. It’s a core value.

This.  I remember hearing about it as a kid.

Keep in mind that while the whole Cosby thing burst around 2013-2014, the accusations against Cosby had been known for “years.”  

...and all of that has nothing to do with whether he was guilty or innocent of the charges, which is why it’s called a ‘technicality.’ He was ‘technically’ not guilty, not ‘actually’ not guilty.

While this is accurate, he admitted, under oath, to the underlying conduct (drugging and raping women).

He was convicted, and it was overruled for a reason that had nothing to do with his guilt. It was a technicality.

yeah, when coupled with the DMs and what not, it’s clearly not a reference to ugly sweaters or board rooms. 

I didn’t even know this game existed! And from the trailers, it didn’t look that bad. Shame.

Earnest response - making a game is hard as hell and I would be proud of it, too. Unfortunately it didn’t reach completion - that’s not at all unusual. They tried something new and didn’t find an audience. So it goes. Lot there worth being proud of.

“Getting paid for a couple years straight” is a pretty good goal for a game programmer/designer/artist...

That’s too bad. It wasn’t terrible, mechanically, but it wasn’t good enough for me to invest the amount of time in it that it seemed to expect and the mission/quest progression was confusing even for an experienced gamer.

Boy, I’m sure glad it wasn’t just me that noticed how her arm is the only part of that moves at all during the entire animation. Sweet hell. If nothing else put me off the game that'd be it. 

This was so condescending a statement that I now want to get the game and proclaim it better than BOTW, Witcher 3, and all of the Souls games.

You’re absolutely right, and you also absolutely sound like a dick.

Is that too minor an issue? How about the enemy AI being completely oblivious to ranged attacks, despite one of the four playable characters specializing in them? Observe as Cattie-brie fires off arrow burst after arrow burst into a group of enemies whose only reaction is to slowly die.