Besides agreeing with your point about relationships and characters, IMO the gameplay in ME3 is a *huge* evolution from 2. I spent hours in the Armax Arsenal Arena, something I simply would not have done in 2.
"Homer Tries to Find a New Bar" is perhaps the funniest two or so minutes in television history
youtu.be/qVaVsyGV0oM?...
ICE is bad. Deportation is bad. Immigration restriction is almost always bad. Armed masked men going into homes without warrants is so obviously villainous that the fact anyone approves it is a stain that will haunt even generous histories of our nation ever after.
I am anti-ICE.
Screenshot of a tweet. It reads: roses are red, violets are blue, do all your side quests before the reaper IFF mission in Mass Effect 2
Bringing my best Valentine's tweet from the bad place to the skyfeed
Sometimes I find myself just plain confused about how EA has treated Mass Effect. Was the original trilogy not a massive success? Sure, Andromeda had issues, but I look at a franchise like Assassin’s Creed that put out big missteps like AC3 or Unity but kept right on trucking.
Abolish ICE.
I had to look up Lizardman's Constant: the 4% of people who will tell a pollster lizard people are taking over the world, ie the minimum answer you will get for even the most absurd question.
One of my favorite sci-fi books. Buckle up!
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
Meanwhile I keep falling for thinking people are talking about Magic the Gathering again
so grateful for games journalists and all that they do but I have to stop letting them trick me into thinking I’ll like games that are 1000% made for journalism sickos (Blue Prince)
So does the “request desktop site” button just straight up not do anything anymore?
What's going on Uncle Jim?
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we
have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.
We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
It’s wild to actually watch or listen to the whole Nutcracker and realize every single song is a certified banger
I swear it feels like games media talking about Hades II have never encountered a sequel before. “It’s really good but it feels a lot like the first game” yeah no kidding
For context, on that team each scene would have a number assigned to it, and each shot within that scene had a letter assigned to it. For this particular project, every scene comprised only one shot, so every marker was Scene [#], Shot A
Throwback to the supercut I made when I was doing the slate/marker for my college job and had to think of 100,000 words that start with "A": www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXzF...
A+ thread
I think this is why Knives Out is still my favorite - Blanc feels the least like a main character
Cowboy Bebop, Chainsaw Man, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken
I wish the phrase “interactive fiction” didn’t sound so pretentious, because saying “games don’t have to be fun” sounds stupid on its face but saying “fiction doesn’t have to be fun” sounds so obvious it’s self-evident.
My 6-year-old likes playing the Lego Horizon: Zero Dawn game with me, and Stardew either with me or by herself
My problem with “strong floor, no ceiling“ is that I think a ceiling is important, actually. I think the lack of a ceiling is the reason behind a lot of our most pressing issues at the moment, and that without a ceiling no floor will ever be safe.
The dog show picked a good one for once!!! Good job dog show!
I haven’t heard the new one, but it drives me crazy that Try Everything is like, musically kind of a bop, but the words sounds like placeholder lyrics they meant to punch up later
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
