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recently it'd have to be Baldur's Gate 3 since that didn't have the ability to view your companions inventory while in camp without having to invite them into your party at launch.

Helldivers is a live-service lootshooter. It's as far away from art as you can get. It being "satire" is also a completely ridiculous statement, considering by the sheer nature of it being a live-service game, it's supposed to be as addictive and "satisfying" as possible. You can't make a satire of militarism and facism if your games entire "loop" revolves around mindless wave-shooting until you unlock the next "sick-ass gun".

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The only thing I can think about when I hear the name Elder Scrolls Online is this interview question from back when the game was first revealed that tells you all you need to know about the game and its complete lack of inspiration and spark:

"Q: Will we see the buildings of Alinor that look like they are “made from glass or insect wings?” And will we see the Crystal Tower for that matter?

A: When The Elder Scrolls Online launches, the playable part of the Summerset Isles will be Auridon, the big island between Summerset and the continent that includes the cities of Firsthold and Skywatch. The architecture of the High Elves is fanciful, certainly, but it’s also practical, constructed of real-world materials. Architects can’t make buildings out of poetry"

Tactical divorce before the election might give him the crucial recently divorced demographic in swing states

good dog

She's right. Combat in RPGs is always a waste to get to the good stuff. Whether I whack an orc over the head with a mace or a sword is the least interesting choice one can make in how one interacts with the gameworld.

"The complicity of the United States with Israel does not arise solely from the Zionist lobby. Elias Sanbar has shown clearly how the United States rediscovered in Israel an aspect of its own history: the extermination of the Indians which, there as well, was only in part directly physical. It was a matter of emptying, as if there had never been Indians except in the ghettos which were made for them as immigrants from inside. In many respects, the Palestinians are the new Indians, the Indians of Israel. Marxist analysis reveals the two complementary movements of capitalism: constantly to impose limits, within which it develops and exploits its own system; and always to push these limits farther back, to exceed them in order to begin its own foundation once again on a larger and more intense scale. Pushing back limits was the act of American capitalism, the American Dream, taken up by Israel and the dream of Greater Israel on Arab territory, on the backs of the Arabs."

marx would have just used summons

i stopped playing the game when the very first big "decision point" was just a lesser version of the helios one plot in new vegas, but instead of having five options (one of which being to use the power plant to power a giant orbital laser gun that you can later find the detonator for) you just get two "equally bad" options where the game wags its finger at you no matter which option you choose. what a lame ass fucking game

i always put the pasta in first, cover it with as little cold water as possible and then put a lid on it until it boils. its supposed to be faster but i mainly do it because i know it would piss off italians

the bar has been lost and thought to be somewhere down in the molten core of the earth