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The games really do pay a lot of attention to accuracy - although it’s worth noting that some aspects of their portrayal are disputed by some historians. For example the Christianity thing - not that Christianity wasn’t a big part of medieval European life, but most peasants in most of Europe only went to church like once or twice a year for the big holidays, so the portrayal in KCD may not be as accurate as it seems at first glance.

Anyway black people and gay people definitely existed in medieval times so in that respect KCD2 is more accurate than the first one.

And reviews at the time didn’t like it!

The moment in Hercules where Hades throws a steak at Cerberus

Timberborn playthrough is going well.

All of the colleges militarized their campus security! Plus a bunch of the leaders of the last round of protests have been expelled and/or deported!

Every day I feel more validated in my “they don’t know what they’re doing so they’re doing a bunch of contradictory things” analysis.

What was “the war” in Pokemon? Lt Surge fought in it, and apparently Pokemon did too, but there hasn’t been any prequel game that explores it.

But here’s an interesting reading: so in early Pokemon content guns were a thing, but later on it was decided that guns don’t exist in the Pokeverse. This could be explained in-universe - perhaps guns were a common sight at one time, but they’ve faded out as the Pokeverse’s society has gotten more utopian. This can also be seen in the schemes of the Pokeverse’s organized crime - Giovanni and Team Rocket were up to some bad stuff, racketeering, gambling, poaching, but as you go forward in time the worst crimes committed by society’s anti-social element are tagging and petty larceny.

Could it be that “the war” was the final war, and Lt Surge was a member of the People’s Army that finally defeated the bourgeoisie, allowing for the creation of utopian post-capitalist societies where lotteries are held just for fun, kids can go on cross-country trips unsupervised, and the only vestige of currency is play money paid out just for participating in society and used to buy non-essential things because all of the necessities of life are distributed for free?

It’s not impossible!

Like a year ago he did a small niche PC part manufacturer dirty by royally screwing up the review of their product, which sparked a big controversy because the people who like LTT are also the people who like small niche PC part manufacturers. This opened the floodgates for further criticism - apparently everyone at LTT was being worked to the bone, every video was being rushed out the door to the point that there was no more time for fact checking or verification, female staffers were being mistreated, Linus was misusing company funds and going on his podcast to lie about what was happening, and probably some more stuff that I don’t remember.

But then it kinda… fizzled out. My hypothesis is that LTT has reached the point where they are “too big to fail”, and by that I mean that they have a large enough audience of people who don’t read Reddit threads to just ride out the wave until the people who were angry lost interest.

It used to be that you had to max out how good your game’s screenshots looked to sell it - but the modern gaming industry just doesn’t work like that anymore, if indeed it ever did. Major devs still locked in the graphics chase are only doing so because they haven’t figured out what Nintendo did back in the N64 era - specs don’t sell games, games sell games.

This is super cool. My dream game grand strategy game is something with CK-style intrigue, TW-scale battles controlled via an M&B-style character, so this is one more step closer to that.

I always assumed that Barrett convinced everyone else to go for it or lead the charge in some way which was why he caught most of the blame, but yeah I guess they don’t really say that explicitly do they. Also I’m pretty sure the Corel reactor exploding was a random industrial accident that got blamed on the town by Shinra (unless that got retconned at some point).

from natopedia

the Engineers, a group of terrorists which is trying to coerce the United States into recalling all of its troops stationed abroad.

I think they launch attacks against military bases/the white house, but it’s been a very long time since I played this game. If I remember correctly the game’s dialogue is like if chatGPT was exclusively trained on War on Terror scaremonger articles, everyone just free-associativity rants about the quds force, al quaeda, chinese special ops, spetznaz, etc.

I agree that that’s what the main games are for, but I also think that there’s more than enough room in Pokemon’s franchise for side games that cater to older fans with more complex battle and sim mechanics. Pokemon Colosseum 1 & 2 feel like they could have been the starting point to a whole secondary line of JRPGs in the Pokemon world with unique stories and mechanics, but they never followed up on them and now those games are just a weird outlier in the franchise’s history.

is objectively correct and fully justified in all of his rhetoric and actions, but the lib writers of FF7 nevertheless felt the need to explain his anger as being some kind of personal revenge quest and make his character arc about realizing that doing violence against Shinra was bad.

At its Mexican premiere on Jan. 15, the French filmmaker responded to the criticism. “The drama of the missing is something that shocks me deeply,” Audiard said. “It’s a tragedy that’s largely invisible outside of Mexico, and my goal was to generate dialogue, not offense.”

I believe that this guy really does believe what he’s saying here, but he also said in another interview that he didn’t study Mexico or Mexican culture before making the movie because he already knew everything he needed to know and that’s just such a typical attitude for a guy like that to have. For starters, the movie’s Spanish is apparently really terrible and the accents are all over the place and none of them sound like Mexican accents.

Yes it’s terrible in the funniest way. Most of the rest of this musical’s soundtrack is terrible in the normal way.

I’m imagining Marx writing a dissertation on the water economy in Caves of Qud

Thirty on thirty

Agreed, I replaced the pads on mine with higher quality ones almost immediately.

The moment that sticks out in my head was, I think JD Vance, saying “we need the federal government to take over California because they just can’t run their own state anymore” or something to that effect.

And it’s like, this shit is all they would do. Flood already-flooded farmland and accomplish nothing. California’s water management has problems but it’s not a lack of knowledge about how to manage it, it’s the fact that it’s all privately owned and operated for the profit of the owners rather than the benefit of everyone.

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Also, calling it now, but if there’s a fire in that part of California before the reservoirs refill they will totally blame Californians for it despite the draining being their own awful idea.