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Ah, bugger, thanks for pointing out that I'll be thirty by then as well... You young whippersnappers, I'll be 39. Why, I remember when we didn't have your fancy iDoodads and robot phones. If you wanted to talk to someone across the country, you used a carrier pigeon. Now, get off my lawn!

Pure Gold. I'm I the only one bothered by how ignorant this person is of Greek mythology? If they actually wanted to criticize Medusa they would had brought out the fact that her origin story is that she was raped by Poseidon and then Athena cursed her because of victim blaming. I'm pretty sure it's satire.

I very much doubt Ms. Sarkeesian dislikes judging an entire culture. In fact, I'd argue that judging others, including entire groups of other people, is very much her modus oerandi.

The dream of a 6-10 division winner lives! We're getting close. Please let this happen!

I can't speak for anyone other than myself, but I've broadened my horizons, yes. Censorship is a cancer eating away at freedom and I say down with the sickness! Sorry, that was cheesy, it was the best "humorous" Disturbed reference I could come up with.

I'm on a hardcore puzzle game kick this week with Cap'n Toad and with The Talos Principle coming out Thursday (I'm in like Flynn on that game). Hopefully Cap'n Toad sells well for Nintendo, because I'd love for them to make more of them. The question on many people's minds when this game was announced was: Sure, most people liked the Toad mini-games in Super Mario 3D World, but could Nintendo really make a full game out of that? Answer: Yes. Yes they could. And it's pretty damn good. There is a shockingly high amount of level variety and quite a few different mechanics introduced throughout that Big N mixes and matches excellently to create a whole bunch of different feeling levels. This is also the best use of the gamepad I've seen. Nintendo really needed a game like this much closer to launch to show people "You see, this is why we have a touchscreen gamepad". Anyway, I'm most of the way through Book 3 (the game is divided into 4 books). I've gotten 100% completion on every level in Book 1, probably 60% of the levels in Book 2, and more than half of the levels I've finished so far in Book 3. Once I finish Book 3, I'll likely go back and try to 100% the remaining levels in Books 2 & 3 before heading onward to Book 4.

It sucks, but this is a better alternative to pulling an Ubisoft and releasing the game in the state AssCreed: Unity released in. It's obviously an insanely ambitious game, so this sort of thing was bound to happen, either that or they'd have to cut scope/features or release a mess. I've waited this long, I (begrudgingly) can wait a few more months.

Thank you for answering A question, Bioware like all companies is expected to make profit. And obviously there gaming formulae of inclusivity is working because they continuing with it so that must mean sales of there games are good. So don't you think in fact its not a vocal minority that want inclusivity, like the LGBT crowd, but the majority of fans who are happy with the direction that Bioware is going? Because surly if the majority of fans were unhappy with Bioware games they wouldn't be supporting them financially? Here are my suspicions, and this is purely going on my own gut feeling, I have no empirical evidence to back this up, so grain of salt and all that. I imagine there are 5 general groups of people as it concerns LGBT romance options in Dragon Age: a) Are happy with LGBT romance options being added, does sway their purchasing decision b) Are happy with LGBT romance options being added, not enough to sway their purchasing decision c) Don't give care either way about LGBT romance options being added, obviously doesn't sway their purchasing decision (I fall into this group) d) Are unhappy with LGBT romance options being added, not enough to sway their purchasing decision e) Are unhappy with LGBT romance options being added, does sway their purchasing decision My guess is that overwhelmingly most people fall into groups b,c,d and that group e is no larger than group a, or that the difference in the size of group e and group a is so insignificant that it's worth it for BioWare to include LGBT romance options because of the press it will get them.

He may have even been playing against his future team this week.

The Factory of Sadness is back in production.

If this is true, that's even more deplorable! At this point, I shouldn't be surprised any more, I guess.

Absolutely deplorable. I honestly have no words. Taking money from disabled people... Jesus ****ing Christ. Charity organization not participating in some event because of reason that people didn't found acceptable seems to be good reason to DDOS said charity organization and remove their home page, I am quite sure that this absolute ensures that disabled people now get their money... https://twitter.com/AbleGamers/with_replies That's pretty ****ed up. Whoever did this, whatever side they're on (if they're on a "side" at all), and whatever their rationalization, I fully condemn such a deplorable act.

I say take the high road and go with a positive speech. No need to stoop to SJWs level.

I had forgotten about Dandelion being playable in TW2. You get to play as him for, what, all of 2 minutes? Hopefully the second playable character in TW3, whoever it is, gets a more meaningful part.

You get to ride the dragon! Weeeee!

Ciri seems to make the most sense as the second playable character. CDPR have repeatedly stated that Geralt's story would be over after this game, but they never stated that they would cease making games set in the Witcher universe, and, quite frankly, they'd be fools to abandon what is now an established and profitable franchise. So, assuming they make a 4th Witcher game, Ciri would make the most sense as the protagonist. She's partially trained as a witcher, partially trained as a sorceress, and 100% badass. Letting you play as Ciri in this game would, as Lexx hinted, familiarize players with the idea of her being a protagonist, for future games. I still wish it was Dandelion as the other playable character, but he's not in that trailer, so that's out.

Market abolitionism, eh? Much like Marxism, and there is more than just a little overlap here, it's an idea that at first may sound good in theory, but in practice has been shown to have terrible results, with the economic model replacing free markets either almost immediately failing spectacularly or, over time, transforming into something, quite frankly, sinister and tyrannical.

What if they pull a swerve and let us play as Eredin Bréacc Glas for a bit?

Thoughts from the award show: I have to admit, I got a little choked up when they gave the award to Ken and Roberta Williams. I grew up on Sierra On-Line, that company will always hold a very special place in my heart. I'm still conflicted about the new King's Quest. On the one hand, it's a new King's Quest, which is a bit of a dream come true. On the other hand, it;s not being made by Roberta Williams, and I don't know how to feel about that. I really hope it doesn't suck. No Man's Sky, while it looks great in many ways, still seems like they completely missed in the scale department. Now, this is probably a purposeful decision, in the interest of keeping gameplay faster, but one thing I love about space games is the sense of scale, of feeling like a tiny speck in a GIANT universe. Seeing a planet start out as a dot way off in the distance and slowly grow into a giant so huge it fills your entire field of vision and beyond. The transitions in No Man's Sky, at least in their trailers, from going from deep space to being on the planet's surface, happen so quickly that it completely misses that sense of scale and makes the planets feel small.

That's kind of how I imagine this will happen. For example, when you finally find Ciri as Geralt they will have a conversation and Ciri will recount her tale of what she went through the past few days and you'll essentially get to play that retelling. I guess we'll find out in February.

I'd very much be pro-playable Ciri. Of course, no confirmation yet on which will be the second playable character. Vesemir (or another witcher) would likely be the easiest to implement, since he wouldn't play all that differently than Geralt. Playable Ciri would be pretty sweet. A playable sorceress would be pretty great (presumably Triss or Yennefer). Playable Zoltan would be cool. My ultimate dream, though, would be playable Dandelion. Dandelion isn't a warrior or spellcaster, so you'd have to talk/charm/scam your way through situations. That would be awesome.

Yikes, things got a bit heated back there. Let's keep it civil folks. For all my disagreements with Bruce, and we very much disagree a lot, he's at least reasonable enough to listen to opposing arguments and engage in debate, even if that debate sometimes feels like banging my head against a brick wall (Bruce may well feel the same way about some of us), something many of the ultra extreme far-left-wingers won't even entertain. Now, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that I, myself, have in the past (and may in the future) had moments where I've let emotions get the best of me and reacted/replied in a more aggressive and insulting manner than I should have. For that, I apologize, to anyone I've offended. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that we (again, myself very much included) could maybe refrain from making character attacks on forum members. Those really aren't going to help anything or anyone.

Ah, the good ol' Platinum Games brand of sheer over the top lunacy. I love Platinum Games so much.

Well, I hope this gets picked up for a second season. Episode 7 was, in my opinion, easily the best episode of the show so far. That was, for my tastes, a legitimately entertaining episode, and the first episode that I would honestly labels as "good". John is still way too much of a nice guy and the episode ended too cleanly for my tastes (though repercussions were at least hinted at), but I found the episode compelling and we finally have something of a legit season-long (potentially multi-season, assuming it gets that chance) arc in the works.

It's now become a catchall phrase meaning someone who doesn't share a SJW's point of view. In fairness, the term "social justice warrior" is itself a catchall that lumps together a spectrum of radical far-left-wingers.