> You’ve kind of got to prepare for the hammer to come down.

I would also just like to remind everyone that removing or editing content on moral grounds is still censorship regardless of whether the first amendment is involved or not or whether anybody’s rights were violated, and if you’re in favor of it, it’s ok to admit that you think censorship is sometimes a good thing. …

> Werewolf ... Fall for obvious lies; go on insane game-theory rants.

Sure, but that phrasing is misleading. You don’t play through NieR: Automata several times. There is only one playthrough, and it’s over when you get Ending E. The game has multiple credit sequences, so people have taken referring to them as different “playthroughs,” but they’re really just different plot arcs. If…

The inability to make backups of my save games — something Sony has been officially doing since the PS3, or since the PS1 if you count third-party devies — is a major reason why I don’t have a Switch. I’m going going to spend hundreds of hours on a game if a single hardware failure can result in losing everything.

The game is an action game that is really just a wrapper around a story about nihilism and existentialism. The style of the storytelling is very much in the same vein as high-minded Golden Age sci-fi by the likes of Asimov or Clarke; the first questions that come up in this sort of setting are, “What does it mean to…

You are welcome to *not like* something after playing only a bit of it — there are plenty of games I’ve quit after only a few hours — but you also shouldn’t act like you have an informed opinion about it if you’ve only experienced a small percent of what the game has to offer.

That’s not just a good enough sample size, that’s a *massive* sample size. There’s 156 different bins you can put character types into, so I’d guess that about 5000 samples would be enough to generate some statistically significant results for the entire set. 100k is massive overkill.

Mother 2 has nonexistent character development, a plot that meanders about aimlessly until the very end, and a combat system with zero innovations other than the rolling HP counter. If the SFC Mini game list was some sort of zero-sum game, other JRPGs that I’d rather have on there include:

What if I told you that outside of the nostalgia and the “this sure is different” factor, Mother 2 wasn’t actually that good of a game, and there are at least a dozen other SFC RPGs that deserve to be on it before that?

“So much for the tolerant left” has been a conservative catch phrase for at least 20 years now. It’s more an indicator of the type of strawman they’ve built up in their heads about what they perceive as “the left.”

People like you are the reason why people wanted to vote for Trump.

I don’t have a strong preference, but I’ll advocate for back roll every time specifically because it causes front roll purists to have an aneurysm.

I also really liked this game, and most of my memories of it involved stalking NPCs. There were a number of really cool NPCs that I really wanted to recruit, and so I’d follow them around all day to see what their schedule was like and who they were spending time with in order to figure out how I was supposed to…

I used the standalone installer; and if it did pre-allocate space, I didn’t notice it, because it must have only taken a few seconds.

I don’t feel like it’s really necessary, considering that I installed the GOG version of the game on another computer and it didn’t go through that step; in fact, the GOG installer finished much faster than the Steam one did.

But... I have an SSD, it doesn’t matter if it’s fragmented. Seek times are O(1).

When I installed Divinity: Original Sin 2 the other day, it spent at least a good five minutes on “allocating disk space.” That was more time than it took to actually install the game, and I have no idea what it was doing.

If your wireless controllers have significant lag, there’s something wrong with them. Actual measured input latency for modern wireless controllers is in the single digit milliseconds range. The vast majority of people can’t even notice it; it’s good good enough to do frame-specific inputs in 60 FPS fighting games,…

You’ll have to outline the criteria by which you decide how one negative opinion from somebody who hasn’t actually played the game is more valid than another.