Cecilia D'Anastasio's saved articles

There should only be so many movement effects in a small window. Once you exceed say 2-3 movement effects then you no longer lose movement control or get pushed but may still suffer a skill interrupt for things like hard stuns. Then the game gets less spammy and combos will take more skill/coordination.
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I played a few rounds this weekend and so far it’s my favorite Mario Party for one reason and one reason alone: Partner Party. Seriously, that mode is more fun than the regular mode by a long shot. You move freely among the board and you’re on a team so you can discuss strategies. Do you split up hoping the next star… Read more

My kids and I played it all day yesterday. I don’t think it’s evil. We had way more “WTF!” laughs than we did any bad feelings. I went from first to last on the very last round in one match but the way it happened was pure comedy. My kids are enjoying it with just a few arguements. I think aside to the lack of boards,… Read more

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. Read more

I work with people caught in the criminal justice system for the past 13 years. Some of the more dangerous individuals I have worked with have adopted ideals such as this without the “gameification” factor. Ultimately, when an individual is able to view the “enemy” as an object, violence against that object becomes… Read more

The idea that shit posting on 4chan and believing virulent versions of the prejudices that your great grandparents believed - this somehow qualifies as awakened and authentic thought?
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This game is destined to be a shallow button masher. DON all over again. Read more

I’m glad they got the players out of the car and move separately again. I really want to like this game, I have many fond memories of MP and my kids are the right age for it. It’s a full price game tho, with only 4 boards? As with most MP games there is a bunch of mini-modes I will never play, it sounds like half a… Read more

I would love to play this with my family, but the fact that I have to buy another set of joy-cons is bullshit when i have two perfectly good pro controllers at home. Read more

The Switch is my first nintendo console as an adult and I’ve been thinking about picking this up as I missed the earlier entries when I was a kid. I’m happy to hear that this was received well as compared to the Wii U entry. Read more

The group finder is a necessary evil, IMO. Last season (I’m kind of burned out and haven’t played this current one) I jumped 500 SR from low gold to low platinum because I was able to find enough well-coordinated groups with the system. Playing solo queue as a support main was exceedingly frustrating. The LFG system… Read more

apparently judging them to be underqualified for her supergroup of average-level players Read more

Nah. Solo queue is a never-ending trash fire roulette. Maybe you’ll get burned, maybe you’ll just be singed. Group finder locks in a player’s role, guaranteeing you’ll have a limited space to pick the right heros for a task instead of suddenly having no healers or tanks because your random teammates switched out of… Read more

I feel like the article is more of an observation than it is a complaint. It is shining a light on something potentially negative, but she mostly just talks about it as being the state of the game. Read more

So, what’s the alternative to having this tool? Not having the tool at all? It just seems to me that the same problems will come up any time you go about looking for help from strangers when it comes to joining up a team-based game for competitive play. Read more

“get massively trolled by bored adults” Read more

This comment section will invariably be interesting. This is another good report on the anti-progressive strain of thought that is very prevalent in many gaming corners.

While I can sympathize with those who feel like there are people on the left who can’t really see the forest for the trees and harp on slights that… Read more

Great interview! I wanted to read more! I downloaded her report and will check it out later. Read more

Well thanks for yet another great article. I’ve been enjoying the in-depth stuff on streaming as a business (rather than just a hobby) and what that actually looks like in reality that the site’s been focusing on lately. Read more

Thought this was going to go in a completely different direction given the debt collection thing. Read more