IronKrill

Can you remind me what fascist means? Because I'm starting to forget with how many times I read it used in a meaningless manner.

I've been rocking some pixel art by Postmodern Ouroboros for a couple of years now. It fits the clock and icon locations so well I haven't felt like changing it.

Those light trails came out clean, nice shot.

y'all keep saying this but playing 1 round of Valorant will make you realise pretty quick how easily people drop $80+ on a game.

I think 2 can also be used as an argument for why they should switch it up. After all, we switch playable characters each game to keep things fresh, so why not do the same with guns? A new planet should bring some new gun modifiers, and they could still bring back some of the old manufacturers as rare loot or legendaries to get even more variety. After 13 years and 4 entries, I'm just a little tired of reloading Tediore's and throwing away all Hyperion and Torgue guns I pick up (exaggerating!).

I somewhat agree with you on movement: it doesn't have to be for combat or necessary. But you have to adjust the enemies to account for the extra player tools lest you make melee or slow projectiles trivial. That and I believe that the best games implement features that solve something, even if the devs create the problem the feature solves. Take Doom Eternal for example: I wouldn't have used half the tools in that game if they hadn't provided challenges that were best overcome by using them. On medium-high difficulties you end up using everything at hand to get through the levels because otherwise you die, and that's fulfilling! If I had the same tools at hand but the enemies were all .5x speed then it wouldn't be very engaging.

Censor Torgue? In what way do you mean, because he's been bleeped out since his introduction in Borderlands 2.

I'm happy to see that it looks good! The return to a more serious style is welcome after 3 games of perhaps taking it too far.

First impression is it seems a lot more Destiny-like: personal vehicles, quests you can pick up anywhere, dynamic events. I'm not complaining necessarily, but looks like they took some notes.

The movement options seem nice but not sure they add that much really. If they don't solve a challenge that the enemies provide then it's kinda pointless. I almost never used slide or ground pound in combat in previous games because I was better off just shooting the enemies.

And as much as I love my Jakobs weapons, I was hoping to see a manufacturer revamp. They even used the same companies in Tiny Tina's with only minor tweaks. The heavy weapons sharing a slot with grenades looks to be a fantastic change though, very welcome.

Also, no lip-sync on NPCs? Looks weird having Amara speaking but her character do nothing.

Overall though looks like a solid but not ground-breaking entry. The guns look just as fun as before and the art design is a step up (those bosses!) from before which I love to see. I know people complained about the Vault Hunters being generic but I don't have a huge issue with it. I don't need my characters to be the blue-haired anime character sitting by the window.

Thanks for posting, I wouldn't have seen this otherwise.

I stopped reading about half-way through, people only write fiction books like this. 99.99% chance this is a shitpost.

No, they have "lore": a bunch of inconclusive and loosely connected animation shorts, vague plot points, and character bios that give just enough of a reason for their seasonal events to occur and for fans to drool over. Just like every other live service.

I always found the respec fee so low as to be essentially free. The bigger barrier was remembering what skills I had specced into lol

I can understand logistical difficulties and delays, but if you give people a day and hours to vote you absolutely have to give your best to meet those hours. Fly people out to the area and stay until the job is done. Leaving early as mentioned here is shameful:

When word spread that the voting station was closing at 2.30 p.m., she and others rushed to the polling booth, but she was too late.

"I could hear their airplane starting in the background," she said. "Today, I lost my legal right to vote.

And I don't even know what to say about not setting up at all, if true:

In Ivujivik, Mayor Adamie Kalingo said Elections Canada staff didn't even set up a station in his community before they left.

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They eventually did around midday, but after a toilet stop, they took off again.

Having advanced days and mail-in voting is all well and good, but you can't tell people that X day is election day and then have no method for them to vote.

Depends on the launcher.