I loved Dragon Age: Origins. I played Dragon Age 2 for over a hundred hours, possibly hundreds of hours, even while acknowledging its flaws, althought that was largely due to my interest in trying out playthroughs with various new mods. I even read a couple books about the series. But I never bought or played Inquisition.

I have a mild interest in watching the trainwreck of the franchise that I formerly loved. I'll keep looking at more news about what the 4th game looks like, even knowing that it's something I'll never purchase or play, just because I'm curious to know how bad it's become.

That's not true. They also eat pap.

(The mother's poo.)

Considering Yu-Gi-Oh had that mechanic for monsters in defensive position, that must have expired at least 2 decades ago. Unless Yu-Gi-Oh's implementation was different enough that WotC's patent didn't apply.

Sony's mistake was becoming a Californian studio after striking gold.

Let's keep watching the proceedings for a while longer before making a judgment. I haven't played Palworld myself, but I'm glad they're not diverging too far from their roots too quickly.

Sure. I'll be looking forward to it.

Meh, didn't work that well, considering that I saw hours ago that you replied to someone else that it was a joke.

I thought it might have been real, since I've seen so many different fan-made pokemon games. A surprising number of them were basically elaborate porn, like Pokemon Ecchi Version or Pokemon Girls Hunter, but others were just re-modeled anthropomorphized retextures, like Moemon, while others went with a way more violent and bloody approach, like Pokemon Uncensored Edition.

So when you mentioned a fan-made spin-off game that would essentially be inspired by 4chan, it didn't seem particularly outlandish to me. I was actually curious about what that might look like.

I just did a Brave search and google search for a game like that, and came up empty. I tried to remove "Pokémon" results, tried to specifically mention the Dokémon names you mentioned, but the only result I got was this very post.

Can you provide a link to something that describes this game? Developer blog, forum post, wiki page, anything?

I disagree. The past several years have proven that when Trump is in the news, more people watch them. It's now peak election season, and it's more relevant than ever to report on Trump. If their strike impedes the New York times from releasing propaganda, then this is going to be a huge loss for them. They will be greatly incentivized to come to the table as soon as possible.

Not to mention, if, God forbids, the democrats cheat another election win and Kamala becomes "President", then the economy will become even worse, very quickly. If they don't make wage increase demands now, when else would they have the opportunity to do so?

And if Republicans are able to counter the voter fraud and Trump wins, then the economy will quickly improve, so having a bad economy now will no longer be a factor. The Times will also start making a lot more profit than they currently do, because they now have years of experience proving that printing 99% negative coverage of Trump generates a lot of traffic. As such, they might not be so concerned about granting their demands, despite the uncertainty of the election results.

Lady Ballers was a bit like this, with the coach's family openly supporting and cheering him for being "progressive" and open-minded with his support of an "all-transgender" basketball team, while he was extremely uncomfortable with the adulation, knowing full well that he was only doing this to win games.

There are a couple fan mashups you can download on the internet of all 3 movies squeezed into a single one, but with all the non-canon scenes removed. I think that the most famous of those is "The Hobbit: The Tolkien Edit". Instead of having an overinflated 9+ hour trilogy filled with ridiculous scenes like a Radagast rabbit-sled chase, asinine and useless love stories and crossdressing, you get a single condensed 4h30 movie. It's a much better experience overall, with the only real downside being sometimes having shortened day-night cycles.

They're going for that 100% achievement.

Generations of people raised with the belief that violence is always the wrong approach are making it harder to reach that point, not to mention having nearly half of the population openly supporting the tyranny. However, this is certainly an interesting social experiment to see how far they need to push to reach the breaking point of a majority of people.

I never beat the early Dragon Quest. Which game is she from? The best I could find seems to be a generic, unnamed, female party member in Dragon Quest 3 with the Warrior job.

Free speech. Don't moderate at all. Reply to all reports of "transphobia" by telling them to stop being such fragile snowflakes and to grow up.

Honestly, I'm not sure where the data is from. He didn't specify. But for those interested, he shows a graph at the 2:28 mark.

I think SyntheticMan shows the data about that in his review of the game.

Yep. Similarly, stories about what happened to Jews in concentration camps in nazi Germany, or even to slaves in plantations in the US, are extremely exaggerated. Not everything written in history books is accurate.

Didn't the Chinese people themselves constitute something like 90% of the total sales of this game? So yes, it sold a lot of copies, but most of those were by the target demographic supporting their own countrymen, rather than from international sales.

Not to mention Varys and Littlefinger turning into pathetic morons the moment they ran out of canon content for them. The perfect example of writers being incapable of writing characters smarter than themselves.

Definitely not that last one. Pretty sure they only started filming and releasing the HBO show when they did, because they expected that by the point they'd reach season 7 or 8, all the books would be out. Not to mention that the 5th book came out after the first season was released.

The fat fuck will never finish his series. He wrote himself in a corner and has no idea how to give it a satisfying conclusion, especially considering the fan backlash to the ending of the HBO tv show. He's too proud to admit that he doesn't have the skills to do so, and doesn't want to be alive to see a better writer tie all his loose ends into a cohesive whole. He'd rather leave all of his three-decade long fans in the dark than see someone else steal his thunder.

Now that there are dozens of additional studies showing that mask mandates are useless at preventing transmission of flu viruses, has he ever recanted his statement?

(I said "additional" because the CDC, of all places, had already released a meta-study in 2018 that observed these types of viruses using data from the previous 40 years, and concluded that there was no perceivable difference between populations that imposed mask mandates and those who didn't. We'd known for decades that they were useless, long before covid ever appeared, and long before the CDC confirmed prior observations.)

Nah, that was just how Jackson decided to portray Saruman's creation of the Uruk-hais. As I recall, they were actually just a crossbred race of orks imbued with some of his power.

This is by Warner Brothers Studios, though. Not Amazon, like Rings of Power. They've had the rights to the LotR franchise since the original Peter Jackson trilogy. I don't think they paid the Tolkien estate billions for that.

So they won the prize before being promptly audited, then?