It’s the inverse of “death of the author,” I guess? “The author’s intent is everything,” maybe. I wonder what that means with authors like JK Rowling who retcon their fiction after release.

I don’t know how you say that seriously. Making it take place in a fictional setting doesn’t disconnect anything you do from real life or making a statement. You can draw conclusions about Tolkien’s worldview from his fictional world building.

How do you write something that doesn’t say anything?

This notion that you can take highly political situations and just opt out of making a political statement means you’re not being political is eyerolling. It doesn’t have to be a grand political statement. No one is arguing they should be putting out some sort of philosophical treatise or anything. But when you make a…

What you think they should do and what they already do are two different things. They still host non-gaming streaming content.

From playing Legendary Edition some, it appears they more or less eliminated weapon sway entirely, which solved early sniper rifle issues (although your weapon overheats after 2-4 shots in quick succession...)

It’s hard to reconcile the tone when you start making lots of Renegade choices together. There are possible narratives you could craft out of some choices, like playing a xenophobic Shepard, or the hard ass loner or whatever. But a few too many choices are just Shepard being a jerk, and that doesn’t really mesh with…

I still think it’s the end that really screwed things up. Yeah, retaking Earth could have been better, but the stuff they dump on you at the minute is just so bad. The macguffin was lazy writing of course, but literally having an avatar for the big bad guy revealed at the last possible moment, find out that a thing…

Renegade choices lack consistency though. Like you can’t always know what kind of asshole response you’re going to commit to when you pick a red option. Paragon options might be “boring” but they at least feel like they’re choices made by the same character. I think DA2 had the right idea splitting personality…

Don’t forget weapon balancing early in ME1. Having weapons only differ based on three variables really limited the RPG element in that regard. The fact that Soldier was the only class with proficiency for all four weapons didn’t help balance, and the comical inaccuracy you have with sniper rifles in particular early…

Ichi.io is not the Epic Games Store though, so how does the former say anything about the latter?

It’s not inconsistent though, at least as far as ichi.io is concerned. The Epic Games Store and ichi.io are two separate platforms that happen to be owned by the same company.

As far as I can tell, even EA hasn’t bothered to implement one for Origin. Gotta buy everything one at a time unless it comes bundled.

The tiny feet seem like a huge liability for things as tall and top heavy as they are.

I’d figure most people would be exposed to it first since it was the theatrical cut and the most readily available for quite a while. Would be weird if you couldn’t count yourself as a fan because you saw that version first.

Twitch isn’t just for streaming gaming though. The service began life as Justin.tv, with a single channel that wasn’t about gaming. They later spun Twitch off as their gaming label, but later merged Justin.tv into Twitch. So Twitch has all the broad topics for streaming Justin.tv used to feature ever since. That…

From what I’ve read they’re using console ports for the Namco titles, which are generally inferior to their arcade originals. Most of the stuff on there are available in various collections using those arcade versions. The Switch got a pretty small version, but there’s two collections on Steam and a couple Playstation…

There’s no shortage of iconic video game songs but 8 and 16-bit era Capcom really stands out as having some excellent tracks.

Seems pretty transparent to me. They pick a charity by default each month, which is where your donations go if you don’t change anything. But you’re free to change who you’re donating to with a searchable list of charities in five different countries.

They’ve just as much a right to exist as any other third party key retailer. And they still donate more than most retailers even at 15%. That’s to my knowledge still on top of discounts and the like that they offer, which invariably means cutting into their margins.