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It's not. 2d20 provokes strong reactions in my experience. At least equally often negative ones to positive ones, too. It's like saying "We should put marmite on all these sandwiches!". Moreso than most game systems. It's not a good fit for a system which would be looking at an audience as...

I read through the details, and it looks like there are lot of good ideas, but I'll be interested to see how many of them survive actual playtesting. Personally I would say they are making some minor but correctable mistakes. Like, they want this to be survival horror, right? That's a headline...

It would though, from Disney's perspective, and from an IP perspective. As soon as you do that, you have to start making major decisions about canon revisions and whether canon even still exists, and if it doesn't, that will actually piss off a lot of SW fans more than the ST ever did. Plus...

Like fair, but I would nuance this a bit. First off, it's not that they're "not important" - a lot of the missable stuff feels big and important and has outcomes that matter and feel emotionally important, it's just not part of the critical path. BG3 has a much broader and more detailed...

Warhammer Fantasy notably included some shockingly racist stuff in the 1980s, which was racist even by 1980s British standards, and it's genuinely rather hard to understand what exactly GW thought they were doing there. What's even harder to understand though is when they essentially revisited...

Sure, I agree, but if that's the standard (and it probably should be) I don't think Central African Forager is going to fare much better. If you're talking about the real ethnic groups only their own terms are likely to be acceptable to them (and rightly so). Whereas when talking about the...

Yup but as it says: "There is no clear replacement for the term "Pygmy" in reference to the umbrella group." - hopefully one is generally adopted in the next few years but I doubt it will be "Central African Foragers" as that's just not accurate. Specific ethnicity obviously wouldn't help here...

For the actual HotE story with pregnant Leia and so on, that you referenced? You missed that chance in 2014 when the books got fully decanonized. And realistically it never was a chance at all because Lucas didn't hate the books but also didn't value them as canon and thought he could do better...

I love his animated work but every live action show he's made has been a disappointment to me. Mandalorian started strong and got weaker season-on-season. Ahsoka was just deeply mediocre and not a story well-told at all (so unlike his animation). Andor also really ruined things for me in that...

I guess I should go back and look at the 2E depictions of them and see what I think. The left pictures are obviously not racist or stereotyped in any way, they're almost Giger-esque and pretty cool. But the right ones definitely make me uncomfortable!

First off, this is a report from Superherohype.com, so we should not take it terribly seriously. All they do is quote various "leakers", all of whom have spotty records. In this case it's DanielRPK, who has spectacularly wrong on many, many occasions. If you're very generous, he's right more...

Presumably he's referring to the fact that, for most of history, slavery hasn't been seen as an inherent ethnic trait, but rather something that could, theoretically, happen to anyone, with the ethnicity-justified chattel slavery of the USA, Caribbean and part of Latin America being an...

Were they? I'm not saying they weren't, but what's the position here, that they were explicitly and/or obviously based on say, multi-level racist depictions of, for example, Pygmy ethnic groups in Africa (surprisingly Pygmy is still the correct overarching term)? That's a case where local...

Nah, I had basically no idea that fight was coming, I really thought I was getting out of there, so was totally unprepared and barrel-free at the time, but Lae'zel was able to dispatch the pillars shockingly quickly with the right weapon (I forget what). I had to do the whole thing legit - which...

I don't think you deserved to be jumped on for disliking a popular game, but I am somewhat surprised that these are you specific critiques. I don't think you're even wrong per se, it's just that these aren't things that stood out as major issues to me or most people (except the path goddamn that...

Team: Seahawks. Reason: We've already had a bad year and it's only January, the Pats winning is only going to make it worse, so I gotta hope. Ugh I was watching that match, I remember. I usually watch the Superbowl, as a sort of hangover of the brief period in the late 1980s and 1990s when NFL...

Oh okay one more - and this isn't one I heard at the time, but Wolverine: Adamantium Rage, a fairly mediocre side-scrolling beat-em-up from 1994 kinda accidentally prefigured the entire Grime sound: This is perhaps a little less surprising when you consider the guy who did the soundtrack was...

I always love "OH MY GOD THEY'RE GOING TO SING!!!!" moments in games, and that is definitely one of the peak ones, especially as it's full pipe organ and choir backed. And yeah when the boss comes in, that's just Sephiroth boss fight level "Omg what is this YES YES YES" musically. (Possibly...

The extreme forms are, but there's huge overlap in the increasingly large middle. "RPG" in a videogame sense is quite a complex packet of traits. Like, mechanically, FFXII (the one where you can basically "program" the characters) has the potential to appeal to exactly the same sort of person...

You're seeming so mad about this lol, and it's just your vague and insubstantial explanations that have got you here!