Conservative political ideology is, of course, just as beholden to discrimination and marginalization as gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, and mental or physical disability.

Rubio is a nothing more than a tulpa, a thought-form shaped from jokes about how cheap and morally, intellectually, and ideologically bankrupt politicians are.

Though in that movie, Helen Hunt Holly Hunter played a Democratic Senator from Kentucky, something even more fantastical than anything else in it and out here.

He's a middle to upper-class white person's view of Colin Powell in the Nineties?

To be fair, the Comey letter gives him the appearance of being the star of, if not an actually good mob movie, at least an Asylum knockoff of The Godfather.

"He only informally, figuratively said he would undermine or destroy every one of the most righteous values we uphold as a nation!"

I knew what that video was going to be, and it and and you get at a problem with the "traditional" control scheme, the one used by basically every shooter and most action games, that it can limit and has limited innovation. It makes a lot of sense for most games to use them, since players will be more familiar with…

Kind of like how in the first two months Smash For 3DS was out, Little Mac was by far the most used character…but he had a disproportionally low number of wins, because the character seems easy to use but isn't at a certain level of play.

And Discord serves almost the same function anyway, just only with people you know.

Or Roger Clinton, star of Pumpkinhead 2: Blood Wings and Spy Hard.

It's not really designed as a fully fledged "lobby," but more developers should definitely check out the Game Accessibility Guidelines. For example, one of the very first things they talk about, simply having legible writing with subtitles, is something so many developers completely ignore; Xenoblade X and some of the…

And motion controls aren't the only path, though they're definitely not one that should be thrown out entirely. You can have games that use fewer buttons that rely on context, like how Kirby Air Ride uses almost nothing but the A button for a wide array of actions. A lot of SHMUP games do something similar, putting…

That's being developed by Ubisoft, though. I'm specifically referring to the Splatoon/ARMS team.

Probably a lot, but I also think they're a valuable path to consider. There are a lot of players who lack the dexterity to play a twitch-button game, and having more basic motion controls could help with accessibility. Obviously they're bad for something more frantic, but you can make a good games with this kind of…

It's also brilliant design that the way to win is to paint more than your opponent, because looking at the mini-map - or even just the map itself - instantly gives you a demarcation of how well your team is doing with no numbers or kill counts.

You know that old adage about how "living well is the best revenge?" The first game felt like that to me. Me enjoying this excellent shooter where I can be an actual part of the team feels like vindication for all the times I played Halo 2 at a friend's house and he kept mocking me for being bad at the game. Because…

Isn't he still dealing with his suit from Plastic Man?

There are a million things I - another person who avoids online shooters like the plague - adore about Splatoon: the brilliant design, the score, the way you can dress like a punk (which the sequel seems to be doubling-down on), and that you can just ignore your team if you'd like and be the MVP just by crushing fools…

So what multiplayer genre does this team tackle next? Do they do a Death Race or Twisted Metal-style racing action game? A co-op tower defense game? A version of Quidditch that isn't asinine?

I've been increasingly excited for this since it was revealed in that bloated January showcase. Like Splatoon, it's got that art style that leans almost over the top without hitting it, those wonderful character designs, and more than anything they're about exploiting what their genre even means. Like, Splatoon is a…