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As someone who is not a person of color, my initial read on the trailer was that they had nailed Barret, and I didn’t give it a second pass. That’s... unfortunate on my part, because once this article made me aware, the obviousness of the problem slapped me in the face. Thank you for bringing it up. Read more

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i used to not like barrett much purely because of how over the top mr t styled he was compared to everyone else. after seeing the translation series myself i realized if he was the more mature gruff fatherly role he seems to have meant to be, he would have been one of the best characters. Read more

As a black guy whose first real exposure to JRPGs was FF7 and spent a childhood thinking Barret was The Fucking Man because of machine gun arms and being the rebel leader, and who grew up to see how flat-at-best and A-Problem-at-worst Barret was... Read more

It’s a tough decision, but I think that the voice is true to his original character, problematic as he is... Squenix needs to do better with their black characters in the future (and FWIW I liked Sahz in XIII a lot!), but I guess they didn’t want to change him up too much from the original FF7. Barrett’s a walking… Read more

Personally I will be playing in Japanese if they have the option.  Read more

So sick of this shit. Throw him in the dumpster with Cole Train from Gears of War please. Read more

PoC should rightfully feel some kinda way about this. It’s “shoe shine fo ya bawse?” levels of bad. Read more

That “I want to replay” moment happened at the very end of E2 for me, but I’m going to see this version of the Super Diaz Bros. play out. I am REALLY enjoying this season and the storytelling choices they’re making. Read more

Talking about moving apartments, I’ve found this tube on how the Japanese (of course they are!) basically perfected the craft on moving all your belonging to the new home.

I too live in NYC. My apartment was so unorganized and small. So I built a to scale apartment in The Sims 4and arranged similar furniture in there to get an idea of what I can actually fit properly in my apartment. It was pretty fun and I saved some ideas for later on. Here are some pics!

I now desperately want a Gita apartment tour. I’m gearing up for my second move in 13 months and, when I was dithering, my mom said “You deserve a nice place to sleep” and I burst into tears. So I’m trying to keep making a good space for me to be in a top priority. Read more

Adventure is super fun because of Dwarf Fortress insane damage modeling system. You can aim your sword swings at individual body parts, and use almost any part of your body in an attack, which is then followed by graphic descriptions of the locations and types of damage inflicted. Read more

I LOVE DF.
And I’m not against it’s “graphics” or style, in fact I prefer it over modern 3D stuff!
What does bother me though is bad “visual clarity”, and I feel like DF suffer from this a lot.
It’s very annoying when you can’t tell one thing from another, so you have to use the “look” command to tell things apart. (I… Read more

I wish they’d add an option in the main game to use the old biome algorithm (the switch happened around 2012). The newer one is fine, but sometimes I miss the original. Read more

So, I gotta say. I started my gaming days back in the Once Upon a Time, questing for years - decades, actually - in Hack and Nethack, in ADOM, and in some of the other joyous ASCII worlds that built the foundations of what gaming has become. The difference in NetHack between, say, your little pet dog (d) and a baby… Read more

It all comes full circle. I remember playing Minecraft Classic in my browser ~10 years ago with my Ventrillo buddies. Read more

I can’t help but feel that whatever psychological framework or worldview compelled Tarn Adams to create Dwarf Fortress in the first place is also responsible for the fact that he will never, ever fix the game’s interface. Read more

Nice Article!
I have yet to make a chapel, and realize now how often a dwarf is unhappy because he had not been to a place of worship in a long time.
Currently I am facing an interesting werewolf problem: one of them is in the military and he seems to get along fine. In training he will just chill out as a werewolf… Read more