I can’t speak to early issues, though given all the other issues at launch I can’t say I’m surprised. I didn’t get around to trying out multiplayer until sometime after the major patches that also fixed the single player experience, at which point there weren’t any issues with multiplayer. At that point it ran at…

I don’t know if we can be sure that a kid actually said words along the lines of “I feel traumatized”. I wouldn’t be surprised if a kid raised by racists said something like “I don’t like that” and then conservatives went overboard to make it sound worse than it was. Though if they’re claiming the kid really said “trau…

I’m curious how/why the deal fell apart. Money seems unlikely to me, since Saudi Arabia seems to be able to easily throw around such sums, though I suppose it’s possible that something about Embracer’s proposed plan(s) looked too questionable even for Saudi Arabia. Also, both parties seem to be varying levels of…

It sure seems like Republicans have done a great job explaining their position. It just so happens that their position is horrific. And Americans hate living in this hellscape of a Republican making.

Surprise surprise, the party of “anti-cancelling” is trying to cancel things again.

Yeah, I agree that it seems highly plausible that a Texas politician is lying to push racism. But the alternative doesn’t seem too farfetched to me, that a young child growing up in a deeply racist household (because Texas) was “traumatized” by school materials that didn’t match what their parents said.

Option 3: send both on a potential suicide mission.

Ah, fair enough. I honestly haven’t looked at the stats since they came out, however many years ago that was.

Sounds interesting, and the trailer looks pretty cool. In some ways I’d prefer to see a biopic that’s a more accurate representation of his life than the mythologizing/sanitizing we’ve gotten in the past. However, it looks like this is leaning into the fantasy side of things, in which case it could be interesting if…

As I recall, Bioware’s data showed that most people let Ashley die. And since the choice was “bland guy” versus “an actual racist”, I think it was a pretty easy choice, even if it wasn’t as dramatic as they wanted it to be.

Also, the multiplayer was solid.  It was a good evolution of ME3's multiplayer, and didn’t have any glaring problems (at least that I can recall, though I haven’t played it in several years).

That’s because, in DnD, when players start reaching level 13 and beyond they become nearly godlike. Spells that high-level players gain access to include the ability to see the future, or just instantly kill anything with less than 100HP.

I really hope this signifies a turning point in the US, in that a black person can finally defend themselves and others without immediately being shot by police.

To complicate matters, I recall reading that at least some of the “crime-ridden” impressions for NYC in the 70s were invented by the police union at the time, even though their claims didn’t reflect the actual crime statistics. And that bled over into various media after those claims were accepted by Hollywood and…

That makes sense.  I guess I’m too used to antivaxxers being focused on Fauci and other individuals that worked on the vaccine and also took it.

There’s no repercussions if they’re wrong, but I can get all the repercussions if they’re wrong

This is sounding great so far. For the point “like notoriety-worthy, difficult bosses”, I would have sworn the series is already known for that. Though admittedly that the last one I played was AC3, so I could be remembering wrong or things have changed. That said, maybe the Dark Souls connection is just Patches…

There’s a reason why so many actors are nepobabies. An actor that earns $100k for a movie still needs to make that money last for 1+ years.

If abortion was legal in the state I’d bet this whole ordeal would have been avoided by allowing the teen to get an abortion much earlier.

As I understand things, Juneteenth wasn’t just when slavery ended in Texas, it was the last US state where the end of slavery needed to be declared/enforced. It was 2 months after the Civil War ended (April 9th), but Texas slave owners basically pretended like nothing happened, so the Union Army had to actually show…