Excessive nerfing can lead to an erosion of trust in the playerbase. It hits at the heart of our sense of fairness. And perhaps more than anything else, gamers want games to be fair—or at least skewed in their favor.
This book’s second chapter perfectly illustrates what happens when a deconstruction fails to go far enough.
Last week, a Texas mother named Jamie Gooch tried to beat the Satanic Panic drum over a silly movie called Hocus Pocus 2. In a now-iconic interview, she told her Troy, Texas news affiliate KWTX all about it: “A worst case scenario is: you unleash hell on your kids and Read more
We’re going to look at how Christians market themselves as the only place to find authenticity, and then we’ll see how their tribe tramples it to the ground.
When it comes to gaming, I’m all about creating and telling a great story with other people. But there’s a lid for every pot, and long ago my pot was shaped differently. When I first got involved in tabletop gaming and video games, I found my bliss in competitive gaming, Read more
The simple truth of the matter is that every Christian is a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ — because none of them really are.
‘Is God even real?’ I cried aloud with a cracking voice. ‘Or is that, too, just a lie?’ And the ceiling answered as it always had: with silence.
Out of every bit of Christianese I’ve heard lately, this might be one of the chirpiest and most annoying.
Evangelicals have long ago figured out ways to change whatever they want in the Bible.
If prayer worked even in the bastardized way that Southern Baptists think it works, nobody’d ever need reminding to do it.