That’s one of the things I loved about the very first Halo, was just dicking around and going where I wasn’t supposed to. Then gradually, game by game, they started to choke of my ability to do that, either through level design or invisible barriers.

Stephen, I’m curious if you’d mention any specific areas you disagreed with Anita on?

That’s a... creative interpretation you have there. A rational brain tethered to reality might look at that quote and see that the studios watched her videos and invited her in to come speak with them.

I haven’t played the game, and don’t plan to. But now I imagine a translation where everything is just “Hodor.”

You don’t see how “months of negative press about IW” versus “not months of negative press about IW” can have different outcomes?

Thank you for this! Seriously!

What amazes me are the people that still think he’s this machiavellian genius.

Look, I oppose the death penalty, and think we would be better off as a nation if we did away with it all together.

God, I fucking hated that quest so much. I could not trigger my life when camping on the spot, and if I left to go kill enemies, the blood moon would happen too quickly for me to return to the shrine.

This armor, plus the spear upgrade you get completely changed the way I played the game. I was extremely cautious the entire game, lurking, and sniping, and stealthing my way through as much as possible until I got these two items. The armor didn’t make me practically invincible like I expected (which I was happy…

I’m still angry that Bioware took that series, and shuffled it over to an MMO, which I can’t stand to play.

I have to ask:

This absolutely feels like a stunt. If you’re organizing a group that big to go to a single event, all with the same disability that requires accommodation, why aren’t you notifying the theater ahead of time? That’s just common courtesy, even if it’s not legally required.

“We’re sorry for any possible breach, but you should be monitoring this shit anyway.”

Confused Nerd,

He was in 5th grade... so 10? I doubt he was thinking very much about his mother’s professional aspirations at the time. And reasonable adults usually don’t fire each other because their children get into school yard fights.

You must not have been playing recent Zelda games. Nintendo has had a strict adherence to the “formula” of Zelda for generations, and the only thing they would dare mix up was the general theme. “He’s on a boat this time! He’s on a bird this time!” With every single game, the tutorial got longer, and Ninty’s…

Oh fuck that. My house? That poisonous bullshit is not getting anywhere near my TV. I don’t care how many fucking red state tears you shed. I would put my foot down.

I JUST encountered the “Two Bombs” shrine today, and absolutely loved it. The first part was deceptively simple but satisfying. Then you get to the second half, and it’s just fucking amazing.

I have to listen to a song dozens of times before I’ll pick up on all the lyrics. What you call “poor listening comprehension” I call tertiary focus. I only listen to music when I’m doing something else like driving, so it never has my sole, undivided attention.