FYI, slapping “devil’s advocate” on the front of an opinion doesn’t make that opinion any smarter or immune to criticism.

Possibly! But the solution to that would be to improve blue-collar workers’ jobs.

Don’t forget that there is absolutely no other text medium you can use on an Apple Watch besides Meta!

Wait, whose girlfriend is this? Kwon is married, right? Is this the defense attorney’s girlfriend?

Bringing in and maintaining relationships with advertisers, for one.

By “even when” you mean “because of”.

Jury nullification is a thing, though.

This shouldn’t be any surprise to anyone who’s spent ten minutes in a multiplayer game, though. Dudes will grind for days to get rare dyes for their badass armor set, but sure, it’s girls who are into fashion.

You are missing something, but that’s OK! You are allowed!

It introduced Varric! But it definitely was a game where the flaws (like re-using assets over and over) overshadowed how much was good in it.

Thanks for the link! What a disappointment. 

How will he be gone next year? Please don’t say term limits because you know this corrupt fool will simply ignore them or get them thrown out.

No. What they might do is try to focus expansion in Disneyland to shift park attendance there. But Disneyworld isn’t going anywhere.

What the game is repeatedly telling you is that V is getting sicker and you better get moving on that main storyline or V will die.  The chip malfunctions are a reminder by the game that V is on borrowed time. That’s dramatically interesting, but on a meta level, the game is lying about how long you, the player, have…

I played this game for the first time recently (and so missed all the game-breaking bugs) and... my feelings were about the same. There are some real, cool gems in the side storylines.

Okay, but it’s not reasonable for the game’s experience to depend on people ignoring what the game itself is telling them and to look for spoilers online. The game keeps shouting at you that there’s a clock ticking and emphasizes that with V periodically collapsing or blacking out.

Good points, although the Qun does get treated with a lot of moral complexity - there is a whole thing about how other marginalized groups, like elves, join the Qun because that’s their opportunity to be treated as equals. The comments in this article about religion and sex are weird given that canonically the Qunari…

Gender-anxious edgelord there is pissy because Luke pointed to previous coverage of list-participant Helen Lewis being a horrible person.

it’s an attempt to be definitive and authoritative

No luck in finding that cartoon about the guy being “forced” by mild criticism to shave his head and get a swastika tattoo, but you know the one I mean.