Absolutely. Some amount of training is a necessity to know how to strike properly without injuring yourself. Adding muscle to an untrained person is a recipe for broken bones, and even if you have trained before you will want to continue training while you add muscle so you instinctively know your strength and…

I wasn’t aware of Jean-Charles Skarbowsky, but I agree with your point. Being “cut” isn’t necessarily an indicator of combat effectiveness. One of the best martialists I’ve known personally was just a big guy. He had a lot of muscle but generally looked doughy, which hid the muscle. Also, recent videos of Mike Tyson…

I hadn’t considered that (because I didn’t do a lot of online play back in the day), but it makes sense. Overall the playthrough would be a heck of a lot easier with a little help from friends. There might be a little difficulty coordinating the summoning of friends, but the game is definitely a lot faster/easier with…

That makes a lot of sense, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s possible with Dark Souls as well.

She tells me she blasted through the game in nine-and-a-half hours, collecting the 1,000 points for her troubles.

I feel like it’s now a law of game naming: any sufficiently long-running series will eventually mess up its naming and/or numbering conventions, especially series that started in Japan and were translated for other markets. For example, the many Musou/Warriors games. Alternately, the Dark Forces / Jedi Knight series,…

Exactly. His text can be interpreted several ways. My initial take was that he’s a weirdo that doesn’t know how to communicate in a professional manner.

This is a tough one. It looks to me like she’s trying to communicate on a professional level, but he’s seeing it as a personal communication, then he just goes overboard. While some of the questions look like genuine attempts to better understand her work, the entire text as a whole is pretty aggressive and not a good…

I’m hoping to continue with actual progress on games I’ve been ignoring. I tried to jump back into Warriors Orochi 4 last Saturday, mainly because I was pretty close to done with it and it would be nice to check off at least one non-Switch game for once. Unfortunately I was just too tired at the time, so I’ll try to…

Clearly you don’t understand what asymptomatic transmissions is, and how it’s a major aspect of Covid-19.

That reminds me of what happened where Superman radio shows in the 1940s exposed the KKK as fairly ridiculous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Superman_(radio_series)#%E2%80%9CClan_of_the_Fiery_Cross%E2%80%9D

I think that’s an edited pic of Fight Club, because of course dumbass racists love that movie.

I’d bet that if he’s aware of that branch the main reason is that he wants to disband it.

Hell, if he fired some warning shots he probably would have gotten 20-life.

My thought with the commercial was that it was more recent to the creation of the Rajj character, and so more likely to be fresh in peoples’ minds, but who knows. That said, you’ve got a good point that these issues/discussions have been going on for a long time. It seems like most people should already be aware, and…

I guess it depends on which aspect of the game we’re discussing. The game was pretty coherent in most ways, and it fit with the existing RE game designs. The specific thing that I was hoping they would get away from is the nonsensical game design aspects common throughout the RE games. For instance, in RE7 the family…

I think a case could be made for 2 different Chris Redfields:

To me it seemed like the RE series was going to scale back the incoherence with RE7, but they dropped the ball there.

Considering that Ashton Kutcher did a racist indian caricature in an ad in 2012, and was called out immediately, I feel like people should have already known better in 2013.