i can’t believe someone tried to shoot donald trump but it was done so in the only way that could make it a total non-event that’ll be forgotten about in two weeks
i was born without the brain cells that make people like cigarettes and gambling and i’m thankful for that. unfortunately there are many many other things wrong with me
the UK government system sucks and produces bad outcomes but the thing where parties have elected leaders who are occasionally shamed out of politics if they lose elections makes me intensely jealous
something about Joe Biden that doesn’t get brought up enough re: his victory in 2020 is that there was a pandemic and he literally didn’t have to make public appearances for 6 months
I dearly love Final Fantasy but the process of trying to reactivate a FF14 account makes me astonished that Square Enix didn’t go out of business 25 years ago
the vibe i’ve always gotten from dave filoni is that he doesn’t engage with any art that isn’t star wars and his wiki page isn’t doing him any favors here
agree with this. one thing i hope people are able to understand is that a game like BG3 could not have possibly emerged from the labor conditions that created veilguard kotaku.com/dragon-age-v...
weird thing has happened in recent years where i really admire James Rolfe now. he seems mostly immune to the bullshit that plagues most other longtime youtube creators. just a sincere and nice guy who draws a fine line between himself and the AVGN character
got lots of interesting responses to the dragon age posts yesterday. i think i just fundamentally disagree with the idea that RPGs are obligated to let players fuck whoever they want simply because they want to. but also i don’t feel like arguing with anyone about that
a 100% true thing that nobody else seems to remember or talk about is that Army of Two for Xbox 360 was supposed to have a mechanic where you would apply tampons to bullet wounds to heal, and ~for some reason~ this was cut before release
new dragon age making every character pansexual is fine and makes sense from a “making players happy” perspective but i think it would be kind of cool if more games were a little less worried about making players happy, if that makes sense