BladeOfCreation

Never forget while attending a legal conference in Ottawa in 2007, Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia remarked upon the jurisprudence and strategic effectiveness of torture as a means for American l...

There are entire college courses dedicated to media critique. As you say, engaging with other people's views on these things can help refine our own beliefs. Now, sometimes media critique is bad. Some...

Wow. Great review for what seems like a great game, and a great reflection on the nature of art and entertainment and how it affects our lives. I have Blades of the Shogun but have never gotten around...

When it comes to story, Borderlands 3 is a product of its time in the same way that Borderlands 2 was. The humor is different thematically, but it is still extremely "online." My favorite parts were s...

I never played any of these, but I love mechs. I'm not as fond of Japanese mecha design, and this looks like it splits the difference between mecha and Western mechs. A fully customizable mech is alwa...

I have a hardcover book about 25 years of BioWare on my bookshelf. Knights of the Old Republic was the series that got me into roleplaying games--although notably I prefer the second game. If a decade...

That statement was a helluva thing to read. It's "unlikely" that everyone will find a job at EA Frankly, it seems pretty fucking optimistic that they'll even WANT a job at EA. The line about allowing ...

@sethmode: Signed and seconded, the entire community.Or at the very least, make a single lootable corpse the starting point of a "loot all" command.

Anyone who is interested in the Islamic Revolution in Iran should read Persepolis, an autobiographical graphic novel by a woman who was around ten years old when the Revolution started. It details her...

Nickelback wasn't bad, they were just generic. I've never met anyone who didn't talk shit about Nickelback, yet their albums always sold insane amounts. I'm not saying that everyone who hates Nickelba...

@justin258 said: I was actually very curious about how they would handle resting in general. I like these games a whole hell of a lot, but these "rest to regain spells" magic systems don't really work...

I've had similar issues to what people have said. The Scrying Eye in the Underdark was particularly annoying. I agreed to destroy it. The only NPCs that saw me destroy it were the ones who wanted it d...

I'm like 35 hours in and only now about to head to Moonrise Tower. This game has a lot.I encountered a bug with Shadowheart. We had our first romantic interlude on the same night that I had the tiefli...

Just a fun tip for recruiting characters: you should have Wyll in your party when you go to find Karlach. It allows for some special dialogue.Speaking with the dead and speaking with animals is extre...

I played about three years ago when the game first became available, then held off until the full release. I started playing again a couple weeks ago. Last night, I put 4 hours into the final version....

I went with a custom character. I assume that I'll try several different characters eventually, including the origin ones.

I don't believe you. I mean, I believe you that they made a deal that means that everyone who is already rich will stay that way. There's no way this has only been going on since last January. It feel...

@bigsocrates: How much human input is required when making one of these bots? I mean, the majority of them just have the default profile pic. But one of these ones has an anime profile pic! That's pro...

No, but I do think the discourse around certain well-received games can reach such an annoying fever pitch that it turns me off from wanting to play the game. I'm sure that The Last of Us 2 is well-de...

I think your premise is flawed. Major AAA releases have segments of the gaming population that are blown away by them. It happens with every single one. You have people saying FF16 is incredible, one ...