Its both, theres a little achievement toggle that turns on and off as you adjust settings so its pretty clear (though it sometimes glitches out). Iron man is required, as is minimum of normal difficulty, and things like religious and cultural bias. Gender equality is swappable, but there always needs to be one on top,…

I like achievements but don’t usually care. What made it feel like achievements were important while I was playing it was that the game didn’t seem to offer very many venues for “win conditions" so achievements felt like the only measure for success other than self inflicted ones. I don't know why they felt like the…

I tried playing Crusader Kings 3 last month, and was struggling so tried to find build suggestions on the internet and was met exclusively with “get gud”. So clearly the mindstate still has its corners.

My biggest concern is with GAAS you tend to move away from designed gameplay experience for more procedurally generated gameplay experiences (to add variety to the same encounters), and frankly i think stealth just ends up boring as sin with procedural generation. It either is too hard because theres no designed…

Animal Crossing definitely has, though they slowed down support. And I think Assassins Creed tested some features of it back in origins with timed shifting events and boss battles. But they werent overly successful. The events were cool as hell too, giant Egyptian god fights. But who wants to play a single player game…

Says the man who invited a hundred people to come tell him why hes wrong. You would have actually caused less fervor if you had just come out and said your opinions. People assumed you were far more right than you are by acting like the website has no room for dissenting opinions. Transphobia and mild misogyny are…

“ but I do have my concerns about transmen competing with women in sports”

The only views ive seen you express as an exaple are “Trans women shouldnt compete in womens sports and women in hottubs on twitch are pornagraphic” These arent liberal views, theyre mysogonistic views, and transphobic views. No ones asking you to leave for holding these views. Were asking you to do better, and accept…

Pretty sure the vast majority of liberal views expressed on this site is that women/poc/trans/queer folk are people and deserve respect and equality across the industry and fandom space. The fact that trump and trumpian politicians get made fun of or gamergate is outright rejected is a facet of that philosophy, as…

Threat to never read Kotaku again despite a decade of consistent patronage.

I will point out *They* is their correct pronoun. But Yes Sonic Fox is the best. 

I remember turning off chat when Redfall was announced because the twitch chat decided a group of people with guns that didn’t include a white man was “Anti-Fa Simulator”

I literally dont care what dream did in context of this conversation. I said that. What i said is “good people are typically trying to be better people”. I said this, not because i believe in a dichotomy of “good person vs bad person” or what ever. But because people who are trying to be better tend to be actively…

Irrespective of the context of the whole thing, I do think “I know that I’m a good person” is a statement that genuinely good people don’t often make. I feel like usually genuinely good people are always trying to be better people. 

I played two campaigns and really only encountered 1 bug, which was Lubu losing his movement bonus after a save and reload. Other than that *shrug* 

Having dived into the Warhammer fandom this year as I got into mini painting I was genuinely amazed by the section of the fandom that basically only consumes Warhammer media. There’s legit people who only read Warhammer books and play Warhammer games. I guess now they’re just trying to get those people to watch only…

I was friends with this girl in school. Well call her Tina just not to doxx her. She is very pretty and was well known to be pretty open with and about her sexuality. She became HUGE on social media. HUGE hundreds of thousands of dudes posting all the things they would do for/with/to her on Facebook, insta and…

At the same time, event can very quickly draw an antisemitic crowd.

Counterpoint, exposure therapy is known to be effective at diminishing phobias. If we put MORE bugs and spiders in videogames in non-threatening capacities, we might decrease arachnophobia in society as a whole. mOAR SpOODS

Hard disagree. Nothing allows for a safer quick heal and sharpen than jumping onto a palamute and running around while using the items. As a long time veteran of the series(myself being one at 3000+ hours across every game since freedom unite) you could say “but we already have strategies for doing this, and can just…