Personally I don’t find anything wrong with cheesecake as long as everyone gets a slice. If women are dressed sexy, cool, who doesn’t like sexy. But men should also be dressed sexy.

I feel its less “oh, everyone just loves the player, you like that you narcissist” and more “you as the player in an RPG get to write the story.” So having every NPC open to everything just removed unnecessary gates to the story you want to tell.

Seems, I don’t know, narcissistic? I’ve never wanted to be “me” in any video game or tabletop RPG. 

Exactly. The problem is people, not corporate voice chat policies. I’m not saying it isn’t a field worth investigating, but the end goal of “make humans not be monsters to each other” may be beyond the scope of video game chat. It may be endemic to the species. 

Sports is a goliath industry and it’s just watching people do things.

Same, I haven’t seen a word said about it before this article. Mostly excitement, actually. I’m gonna guess it’s the usual, vocal 1% of troglodytes screaming like howler monkeys while the vast majority of non-damaged people just go about their lives.

This is it exactly. If applying oils wasn’t so goddamn cumbersome it wouldn’t be an issue. If you could pull up a quick menu and just hit the right button for the right oil, that would be much easier, more fun, and it would still reward you researching enemies and recognizing enemies and their weaknesses. But it…

Exactly, I like her a lot in this one (where I found her mostly annoying in the other). Like, she’s still not an action hero, nor should she be: she’s just a normal person with no training in an insane situation. 

Superman with no underwear isn’t Superman. 

Also, skirts (specifically short skirts) are very much back in fashion now, as are many things from the ‘90s. 

I mean, it’s not? I think people are mixing up house elves and goblins. The goblins aren’t the primary labor force. They make some specialty items in small quantities and run the bank.

This is it exactly. The reason they’re not “judging” you is because they wanted to give you some action figures to play with. “Wouldn’t it be fun to fire Avada Kedavra?” No, not in real life. But to play around with it? Sure. It’s the same reason people like Darth Vader. Villains are fun.

You can simply...not get the Unforgivable Curses if that bothers you (which it does for me).

I’m putting in a vote for Anson Mount. 

At the end of every major video game revenue stream is a giant corporation, being run by horrendous monsters. So unless you stop buying all major video games (and all major media at all, really) than you are likely supporting someone donating to causes you hate. That’s what no ethical consumption means.

It should definitely have narrative consequences, for sure. Doing otherwise is just bad design.

Honestly I just *heard* what happened, caught a spoiler by accident, and I didn’t bother playing.

To be honest, there’s so much “PC Master Race” crap it’s occasionally nice to just see them get this kind of sass.

Being like Cyberpunk is a fine take. Thinking Cyberpunk ripped off “Strange Days” for braindancing tech, which was in the original cyberpunk literature in the early-mid ‘80s, ain’t it.

Granny also kinda karma-houdinis her way out of most of the consequences of her actions, and its a little infuriating.