Interesting and much appreciated. So the intent is that if you choose BFA content, that alone gets you from 11 to 50 and you rock and roll straight into Shadowlands.

This commercial isn’t great, but I’m not seeing how it’s problematic. It’s tired and unoriginal, but the woman isn’t a passive object, she’s the main character. And she’s not being objectified, she’s accidentally doing something inappropriate in front of children.

Borderlands is a one trick pony, and if you don’t like the trick, you’re not going to like Borderlands.

I wasn’t going to play 3, but I got it on sale to play with my brother and his fiance. It’s a Borderlands game. The humor isn’t better, or worse, it’s what it always was.

“I’m in the camp of at least the prequels tried to tell a different story.”

The difference between the prequels and the sequels is interesting. The prequels are terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE movies that nonetheless have a specific story to tell. They do an absolutely horrific job of it on every conceivable level. Every character kind of sucks in their own sucky way and nobody seems to be…

Okay, so I’m one of maybe eleven people in the known universe who doesn’t really have strong feelings about Star Wars — to be clear, I don’t hate it, it’s perfectly enjoyable, but I also never drank the Kool-Aid — so I’ve really got to wonder; when exactly did the fanaticism kick in? Like the real, hardcore,…

Because it sucks the soul out of the game. It’s like saying “Hey, let’s play competitive basketball, but players cannot be within a foot of other players, and LAYUPS ONLY.”

On the point about fighting game communities not being the most positive, the smash community is arguably the worst. The FGC pretty much disowns them. The Smasb community bullied a 16 year old into giving up competing for fuck sake. Just on that, I don’t think the Smash community deserves Nintendo’s support (that and…

Amen, brother. Also, user-comment synergy 

I’d have Baroness, Cattle Decapitation, Monolord, Opeth, Torche, Lo-Pan and Whitechapel on mine.  But this isn’t a metal site, so I bet those would be on Loudwire or something.

No metal as usual. One of the highest grossing, most popular genres in the world and you got nothing. Angel Witch, Tool, Sabaton, Overkill, Opeth and more all released albums in 2019. Can you get one fucking metalhead on staff? AAAARRRRGHARRRHHAAAAH YEAHHH no  

“Please Dad, Don’t Buy That Affliction T-Shirt” 

They goddamn better. 

Hot take: everyone has been taking Star Wars way way way way way more seriously than they should have been since about 1993 at least, if not earlier, and everyone should shut up about it for a few years.

(There’s also been a notable lack of scrutiny towards Hamm or his character Tom Shaw, whose purported relationship with this particular reporter would have been pretty unethical. Color us surprised.)

Anyone else feel like they no longer give a damn about cinematic trailers? I either want to see game play or in-engine shenanigans. I just get bored by these cinematic trailers that really give us no sense of the game itself. 

Weird take. Can you explain why you think people shouldn’t be able to benefit from their share of advetising revenue generated? If your job suddenly became hundreds of percent more valuable and suddenly your monthly income was significantly higher than your contribution to society, would you request a salary cap?

It’s cool to not like streaming or Youtubers or whatever, but I’m having a hard time picturing your ideal scenario. So, “salaries” are capped, and instead of the money going to the people who upload stuff, it is...what? Kept by YouTube? Returned to the advertisers? This seems like a really weird thing to root for. 

Avocados taste like compressed wet grass, nobody @ me.

Honestly, I like it. I think Blade-Runner/Total Recall/Delorean retro-futurism is a lot cooler than the formless tacticool bullshit for red sweaty dads looking like thumbs with goatees that passes for trucks today.