Recent content by SquidSponge

Gotta disagree with that point. First person for melee combat is rarely done well, sure, but it's quite possible. The fun I had with melee on Dark Messiah: Might and Magic, oh yes. Someone else has mentioned Mount & Blade (1st person melee worked well, but only when on foot IMO), and 3rd person...

Vigilantism at best, assault and theft at worst. Unless French law very much differs drastically from all other western nations, both of these are crimes, as would be attempting to sell the animal on afterwards. With video evidence and a publicly-accessible confession on FaceBook. Question is...

Unfortunately, whenever I read/hear the word "streamline" with respect to a videogame sequels, I simply interpret it as "dumb down". I have yet to be proved wrong. It isn't helped by the fact that Skyrim made me lose faith in Bethesda's ability to make a character building system - one of the...

/sigh. Long answer: "Cracker", as many have already said, refers to the crack of a slave-owner's whip. Its use when addressing a white recipient is typically intended in the same way as the use of "******" against a black recipient, though it lacks the same metaphorical "weight" that the...

A lot of people here insisting, for some reason, that "misandry doesn't exist". Honestly, if you want to argue differences in severity and implementation between misandry and misogyny we could talk for weeks, but as best I can tell one would have to be pretty determined to somehow not see it...

Words are cheap, actions will tell. I'm not holding my breath.

Depressed? Hells naw, I'm fucking ecstatic. No option for that on yer poll though. I finally get to end my boycott of the Escapist without feeling guilty. ZP is still here, I was always polarised love/hate (averaging to ambivalence overall) about Jimquisition and purging that detestable...

Gah, I thought "finally, an old-school RTS, one that I loved back in the day too!" but then I discover they had to crowbar in the more modern "everything is fragile and expendable" style. FFS, they had one job - improve the graphics - but no, they just had to start "fixing" what wasn't broken...

Actually, I feel you on that one. Some time ago I used to argue a similar thing - that the extreme ones are not "real" feminists (and not to judge the bulk by the extremism of the few) but then someone pointed out that it was a "no true Scotsman" argument and honestly I didn't have a response to...

Agreed. The problem is, they tend to be convinced they're still furthering the cause of equality. Perhaps it's Orwellian equality - some are more equal than others. And that'd be what people like OP and I are complaining about, not that it's just "the media". The problem is sweeping...

Give that man a coconut. Sounds like you're exactly where I was last year just before I snapped and actively rebelled against the SJW crap. I'm sick of people spouting bollocks how an entire demographic are racists/sexists/whatever based on superficial traits like race, gender (or, in this case...

Nice points made, I guess, I can't disagree on the principles. It might be relevant if I'd even once in my entire life met someone (including white, straight, cis men) who actually had any problem with playing a character of race/sexuality/gender/[other demographic trait] different to their own...

Windows key is f*ckin' awesome, you wouldn't believe the amount of time that key saves if you know the right shortcuts. I voted for numlock, because I can't think of a single reason to disable it. But then I realised I'd completely forgotten about scroll lock, because I've literally never...

On-topic: I've found that it's better to part ways (just be sure to do so on good terms). The fact is that once the declaration is made there's usually no going back. The "friendzone", regardless of what a certain website's myriad creative redefinitions say, is just a classic interpersonal...

I liked Critical Miss (past tense), I really did. The games-themed ones (back when the majority of the games-themed comic on a games-themed website was, you know, games-themed) were great, and the ones that mixed politics & gaming (eg criticising the state of games journalism) were a nice...