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I am definitely getting Invisible Inc. on payday thanks to Keyrocks descriptions.

How does one join a hashtag? You pound on it.

Ah the internet, where obsessing over the looks of digital women is perfectly acceptable.

Gas prices have really gone up since then!

Well, Pitch Perfect does have the better puns. Honestly I think Mad Max will have staying power. I rarely want to go see a movie twice, and this one I'm definitely planning on it.

Nope.

Honestly I think Bruce is a stand up guy in most of the other threads around here. He's got a positive attitude and he is always looking to cheer people on. It's like he's been cast as a villain here because there aren't any better candidates, and he's just rolled with it.

Roofles!

Bruce can be called a lot of things, but if you are calling Bruce an SJW, you aren't paying much attention.

Nope

Well we have zero SJW's here, and a fairly robust group of GGers, so yeah.

Every type of 3D makes me sick pretty quickly.

Obama is rumored to be a decent basketball player, actually. He still isn't going to drain 50 playing against former NBA players.

Santiago Casilla closed out a 1 run game last night on 9 strikes. 3 strikeouts on 9 pitches in the 9th inning, wow.

Kind of creepy how much this sounds like the Kim Jong stories.

Ugh, I can't do 3D for more than about 10 minutes.

I'm not sure I'd really call Destiny an MMO. I enjoyed it as well, but it is fairly limited in terms of how many people you are playing with in an area.

Wow, that was a thrill ride. I wanted more of the guitar guy shredding away. I need to watch it again, for sure.

Eh, most other trade mag's can be different because the diversity of what's being sold within the mag itself. A movie magazine might be selling everything from laser tag to games to movies, but it's not enough of a money invested from one point that the editors pressure the reviewers to give Transformers a good score. The entire games industry itself is built around selling to itself. You open Game Informer (which is only successful because of gamestop's pushing it), and you're seeing reviews for games, advertisements for games, and discussion only about games. I don't ever remember seeing anything from a "related" industry that thinks the market share would be good to crack (no comic book ads, no movie ads, no car ads). So the Magazine Editors want to keep the publishers happy so they can keep the ad revenue rolling in and the review copies too. Publishers want to keep the magazine/website editors happy because that means their ad's and games get better press, and nobody cares about the consumer. Oddly enough, I was just flipping through Game Informer on the commode, and Pillars of Eternity was their game of the month, while Broken Age part 2 also got an extremely high mark. They also gave a rather low mark to some Assassin's Creed side-scroller.

My argument has always been more about this is simply how trade magazines work. They rely on the people who create the product to stay in business. Subscriptions (or in this day and age, hits) only cover part of costs, they need advertising dollars and they need behind the scenes access to content in order to operate. This is coupled by the fact that a review is a fairly subjective thing, and any game that can afford good advertising is also probably going to look good and be technically solid. In essence I think that reviews are one of the least important parts of game journalism, and hope that someday the general public moves away from relying on them so heavily.

I prefer Elric, although I've not read the Witcher books, only Moor****'s work.

I am entirely certain that 99% of the people playing Dragon Age games are paying way less attention to the lore that Qistana. It really is just a game for the majority of people.

Sometimes I enjoy the actual discussion about journalism. But yeah, most of the time I scratch my head over the stuff that gets discussed here. Something about nazism and misogyny, I think.

My wife and I celebrated out 12 year anniversary. We started out with a bit of wine tasting, then had a very good dinner. It was a very good evening.

I've heard that this is standard practise with the historical consultants hired for movies, simply there to lend a veneer of authenticity and then largely ignored, unless the director likes one of their ideas. That actually sounds like a great gig, sign me up.