Jerbear

Really disappointing. The movie felt like something that should happen in between Star Wars movies.

I haven't played the newest Call of Duty, but isn't the progression system in Battlefront II objectively better? Is a big part of the backlash not necessarily the system but the confusion of how roundabout it is?

In a traditional Call of Duty game, you need to achieve X level to unlock a specific perk. This means you'd be forced to level up many times, and earn many perks you don't intend to use, before you can earn your desired ones.

In Battlefront II, each Lootbox gives you enough Crafting Parts to unlock a Starcard, or perk by another name, of your choice. So each time you earn 4,400 credits (or 2,200 if you buy a Hero crate), you essentially "level up" and can purchase a new perk of your choice. While grinding matches can take awhile, the heft of low-level achievements mean that you earn plenty of Lootboxes, or "level ups", right at the start. In the Quicklook, Dan has about 220 Crafting Parts, meaning he could unlock 6 perks of his choice that he has chosen not to.

This means that if you want to unlock the Killstreak Infiltration perk for your sniper, you can do it right off the bat. Want the Ion Turret for your heavy? You don't need to unlock 3 different grenades you won't use until you get it. Want to unlock a more damaging main cannon for your Starfighter without an ability upgrade your always forget to use anyway? Go for it. When you account for achievement points, the random cards you get from Lootboxes are actually just a bonus compared to the Crafting Parts you get.

Does the system have problems? Sure. Duplicate cards should upgrade your card level, not refund you some credits. Level 3 and 4 card upgrades become very expensive and can require quite a bit of grinding (perhaps the only case where spending real money would have made a big impact), but the difference between level 1 and 4 cards, especially the Trooper ones, are never substantial. The inability to buy Hero cards with Crafting Parts feels like an oversight. Could the game do a better job of telling you that buying multiple level one cards is what allows you to unlock extra perk slots for a specific class? Sure.

But on the whole, isn't the ability to pick whatever perks you want right off the bat instead of waiting to hit an arbitrary level requirement the better way to go?

People never were "just jerks", though. The impulse to be purposefully cruel or divisive has always had some sort of ideological background, whether it be racism, misogyny, classism, whatever.

Hello! I have been a frequenter of this site and a Premium subscriber for longer than I care to remember, but have recently become extremely frustrated with my inability to navigate the website.

Example: I'd really like to take a look at the text post for the Day One GOTY winners, but since it's not on the front of the site, I cannot figure out how to find it. Plenty of other videos that I've seen are in places that I seem to have no easy way to navigate to.

Am I missing some major navigation page? Am I just an idiot? A bit of both?

Longtime listener/reader and Premium member, but I have a lot of trouble finding things on the website.

Video segments like TANG seem really nicely organized, and it's very easy to browse through the segment lists and watch them like that. Is there any system in place like this for other videos? I'd love to be able to browse Patrick's Spookin' videos or Metal Gear Scanlon, but I haven't found a better way besides searching for them and hoping the one I want pops up on the list! Thanks dudes!

Well, longswords were never really used in combat, and were mostly used in organized 1v1 fights (with "fight schools" teaching it as a specialized version of fencing), so they would most likely transport the swords/carry them in their hands instead of sheathing them on their body.

With saying that, I can't think of a historical example were swords were ever actually sheathed on the back for any reason, especially considering that swords mostly served the same role as modern-day pistols and would need to be quickly drawn in an emergency. Besides, a soldier would typically wear his equipment/shield on his back, carry his spear and, if he had one, wear a sword on his hip along with water/etc.

So the answer is obviously hip since carrying swords on your back is a very impractical and 20th century type thing.

Beers has an aggressive style, but was right on substance. Fish has chosen to take a public role in video game development, and so he has opened himself up to public scrutiny based on his work. If Beers, as a member of the media, takes a "if you're going to keep quiet and not play by the unspoken rules, then we will do what we can to freeze you out of the game until you start playing by the rules" stance, then that's great for him. He's demanding accountability from game developers who make their professional work public.

All Fish had to do was ignore it or basically give a "fine then, boycott me, I don't mind". Instead, he threw a temper tantrum. Making one successful indie game doesn't elevate you to the level of being beyond criticism, and if he can't take this, then he either doesn't belong in the industry or he belongs out of the public sphere.