I remember reading when I was playing Bloodborne that the Fashion Souls game was strong because the stats really didn’t matter all that much in that game, any given armor wasn’t gonna make a huge difference anyway. Is that true in Elden Ring? Am I fooling myself when I sit there trying to decide if I want a half point…

It’s also an issue for me that 90% of the text of D&D is focused on combat or conquest, meaning it’s a system that heavily incentivizes solving problems through those means and telling stories which center around or focus on conquest. It’s possible to tell stories through D&D which are not fundamentally about using…

I’m not sure why Friends at the Table is listed after saying Actual Play has made the move to YouTube or Twitch. It’s a podcast. (Edit: I guess it’s referring to moving to other games? But out of order with Critical Role being an example of the form in video?)

Imagine having the fucking gall to call yourself an anarchist while also going out of your way to be an abortion cop.

This exactly. It’s not about [radio voice] my fellow Americans. It isn’t. I love people. I love people fiercely, and defiantly. I do not love America. And loving America would not improve my love of others. Fuck this place—fuck this place for what it has done to “my fellow Americans.” Fuck this place for what it has…

Patriotism was just as much a force driving the confederate soldiers, and the KKK, and Nazis. Patriotism is jingoism but for polite society. The idea of creating boundary lines of devotion on one side and un-devotion on the other is corrupt and contemptible no matter what letter is next to the name of the politician…

How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name…

I can’t tell if this is a bit of a goof about the potential double meaning of “baby food” or if it’s a clever and scathing indictment of Nestle’s use of child labor, but either way: fair play.

God bless Nicolas Cage, indeed. I really do believe him when he says he never phoned in a role. I mean, hell—if it weren’t for masterwork performances in films like Mandy, I don’t think we’d be seeing this Cage renaissance.

It seems like you’re referring to the 3.5% rule? Sure. That would be what it takes to ensure civil resistance creates regime change. But that’s not what I’m saying. Fifteen thousand people or more have been arrested for protesting, with thousands more escaping arrest. These are mass protest actions. It’s not like it…

What the fuck is Anonymous trying to accomplish by demanding that Nestle also suspend their sale of things like baby food in Russia? That’s not gonna punish anyone except the people least responsible. And it’s not like it’s going to galvanize the Russian people to finally oppose a war they already are engaging in mass…

Those “residual physical advantages” really just amount to things like height and wingspan--not muscle mass or bone density or anything like that. And at that point we’re just talking about banning tall women from swimming, which is how you know the conversation has gotten particularly ridiculous.

Of course it’s not the same; while there are people involved in football, Star Wars, and automobiles who are terrible, none of those things are inextricably and uniquely tied to a sole creator spending all of their time actively endangering trans people.

That’s not a bit, it’s a thing that literally happened! Although I think it was a really bad idea that was probably well-intended. A PR disaster that anyone could’ve seen a million miles away, but I don’t think anything worse that a really fuck-awful decision she made.

I guess moving in with Grimes is less immediately suspect than an escape room with Jack Posobiec?

Oh no, Chelsea, what are you doing.

I’ve known what vtubers are, but comparing it to kayfabe makes me feel like I get it in a way that I didn’t before.

Your first point does not intersect with what people are claiming. He has a right to do this. That does not mean he is shielded from criticism for his behavior. He has an objective right to be misogynist and to refuse to work with women. And then women have a right to criticize him for that behavior, and Kotaku has a…

“How could I possibly disrespect a woman, I spend too much time denying that they exist while calling them ‘bitches’ to have any time left over for disrespect”

I truly don’t care about The Gamer. Whatever anyone who calls themselves a gamer thinks about anyone else’s hobbies is wrong.