Gods arent real. They WERENT anything, except for (believed in by people local to a region) gods of all existence. When you pull some legit ancient mythological text out your ass that describes the color of a gods skin, maybe well talk, but the vast majority of pre-christian depictions of norse gods are verbal, and…

I literally can’t watch WWE without cringing. Not after the god awful wedding plotline they did in which a straight women pretended to be a lesbian.

“those breeding unhealthy tendencies, such as money-worship and effeminacy”

I don't know that it's supposed to be intimidating or if it's supposed to indicate that Tyr may also be a giant like Atreus' mother was. Maybe half giant like Atreus himself. 

Lotta people acting like he got fired. Dude stepped down. He may have been talked in to stepping down, but he still made a choice to do so. Dude recognized he was suddenly bad for business because he openly supported a draconian witchhunt of a law and stepped down. Piss off with this "he lost his job because of his…

Theres that for sure. Theres also a lot of inauthentic concern trolls on kotaku now. Dont know if its just been a slow build up since a bunch of writers left or what, or just more motivated since the blizzard stuff came out. They think they can incite comment section destruction by acting acting like the only…

Wow people got real mad at you for admitting a status quo exists and participating in it. /s Shame on you for wanting to work. Its amazing how petty people can get when they think they have a face to put their anger to. You should just dismiss those folks, theyre not actually making an effort to understand they just…

Interesting to note that these are often the costs covered in professional liability insurance in other design industries. We have a small lighting company, and we get nailed with all sorts of clauses about cost liability. Without professional liability insurance we wouldn’t be able to operate without fearing for our…

The mistake youre making is likely the same thing he was thinking when he came up with this stupid plan. That the entire communities behavior revolved around him, existed because of him. But thats not it at all, people wanted their own records, their own super tight best possible times, and their own integrity as…

Theres definitely a conservative lean, but the crowds tend to shift based on where you go, and AEW has given progressives an option that at least FEELS like its welcoming, and as a community is getting queerer and queerer(lotta butch or masc queer folks super into wrestling). Id expect it to be only slightly worse…

Wasnt Asmongold the guy whose clan encouraged their players to ninja-loot whenever possible in wow classic? And he thinks he has any place to talk about toxicity at all? 

I think it almost definitely is, but the memo writers haven’t referred to it as just Blizzard in years. Which is what makes it so notable. For all intents and purposes the company IS Activision Blizzard. 

Hmm something telling about them calling themselves Blizzard in their press release in order to try and distance this from Activisions stock prices. You're Activision Blizzard on every day except lawsuit day, it seems.

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”