I mean if you play every single game then I can see that being exhausting. I imagine that is a small minority though. Books can get long too but authors probably dont think to themselves “I should make this shorter for the people who read every book that is released”

It is worth noting that during Giant Bomb’s stream they encountered a situation as Alexios where he resolves a situation by tricking a women into believing that he is the voice of a male god’s statue. Alex Navarro mentioned that during his playthrough as Kassandra during the same mission it was a notably different…

I also submit “The Renumbered Sequel” where games go from having number sequels to dropping the number only to suddenly start renumbering them. There’s two forms of this: one in which they pretend they never stopped numbering, like Mario Kart suddenly just having Mario Kart 7 and 8. The other is when they bring…

Developer during an interview: “We did a lot of research into Oedipus Rex, the Odyssey, crazy stuff like Lysistrata – all of these amazing Greek texts.” 

Actual game dialogue: “Hey, shit-face”.

Yeah same. It’s good to have a choice. :)

It’s not enough to rely on consumer pressure to get devs paid severances when they’re axed like this. Those who want to see companies do right by devs should be regularly supporting and encouraging unionization efforts, long before things ever come to a head.

It bothers me more than it probably should that she’s being called “Bowsette”. Peachette is a combination of “Peach” and “Toadette”. The Bowser/Peach combo should be “Bowseach”, “Peachser”, “Bowpeach”, or something along those lines.

Oh.
My.
God.
That Mollymauk just blew my mind.

All that stuff isnt in the US because our infrastructure is pretty terrible. We have small pockets of amazing internet, where people can take advantage of all that, and then extremely broad swaths of “lol nope” where it wouldnt be viable. Those pockets probably arent big enough to support the business, and the…

Someone already posted Steven Universe, which has the consistently best musical numbers on TV, but second place in that category has to go to Those Damn Ponies. The modern MLP tends to do about five or six musical numbers per season, and it’s produced a lot of gems, with a surprising mix of genres represented:…

The Futurama pick is “Whalers of the Moon” instead of “Robot Hell”?? How does that happen??

Animaniacs was a treasure trove of songs.

No, no, not only you. Would be cool if it was actually Rune Factory. You get some nice, normal seeds that you can breed and then sometimes you find questionable seeds in dungeons and suddenly... you’re growing man-eating plants on your farm and the pollen gets out of control and now you’re overrun with killer apples…

The names are not the worst part, it’s how many models they have. 2 is ok but 3 seems to make it confusing and annoying. They should differentiate their compact phone and large fullscreens phones more

I won’t put hours into an piece of entertainment that isn’t working for me. If it cost me money, so be it. I get paid every two weeks. I never get my time back.

Almost everyone has more money than time. Pouring hours into a game that you purchased, only to subsequently discover you don’t care for, is self-defeating in the extreme.  

Part of what Ario is exploring in this piece is why this happens in these games—the extent to which it is elements of the community, the content of the games, the culture of game difficulty, etc. Plenty of possible factors. As Ario also points out, most of the messages in the games aren’t like this.

Look, if you want to say something in these comments all I ask is that you be respectful to one another. Disagree on whatever points you want but please treat each other decently.  (Assholes and transphobes get banned.)

As someone who is also LGBT (though I, like you (it sounds like), am not trans and so won’t pretend I’m an authority on that experience), I think it’s fair to call out someone who makes a transphobic joke, even if it wasn’t made to, like, explicitly hurt someone. I’m very okay calling out people who use the word gay…

writer: *list of reasons why something is transphobic*