Recent content by Captain Ahab

Pokemon's appeal and staying power was that it was a simplistic RPG with great character designs on a cheap handheld with a install base in the literal millions. If you took a poll of every Pokemon player, chances are "challenge runs" rank pretty low on the list of reasons they continue to play...

Big talk about diatribes from the guy who claimed that binary hacking was holding the scene back and then immediately fell back to copes of "well it wasn't serious" when pressed on his god-awful wall of text. You automatically disqualify yourself from the discussion because you are arguing...

Now, why would you sprint to the Louvre and miss all the sights and sounds of Paris?

Because no good deed goes unpunished by God

I don't present myself as smarter than you. I am smarter than you. Of course you backpedal now to "Actually, I was talking about...!" despite spending a really, really long time talking about Watchmen for some reason. Anyone with eyes can tell that it was the profile picture that got you worked...

I dare you to walk into Game Freak's offices and say this to their design leads

Your attempt (if that) to psycho-analyse me via my choice of a funny smug face from a comic I happen to have read is cute but ultimately misguided. Nobody cares about your opinion on Watchmen. I chose this because it's a funny smug face that gets under people's skin. Evidently, I succeeded...

You're a fascinating case study into people who haven't thought about game design one whit thinking they're suddenly the sole authority on how player engagement works. I struggle to imagine how you play most games.

yeah he's literally me. i'm the guy in the image and I have an IQ hitherto unseen by humankind.

With analogies like this I can't confidently say you read much of anything at all. Nobody who cares about art sees it this way, and once again you operate on the faulty assumption that grinding is required or that the game does not give you ample tools to avoid things like this such as Repels or...

Because they already know why it's being used and it's because you're an impatient twerp who has the absolute balls to suggest that playing games at a speed not intended is an accessibility feature and not explicitly a tool available to only emulators. No console offers this to you. The game's...

Nobody is "antagonizing" the player base except the player base themselves. Stop acting like you're some great oppressed class because someone very politely asked you to play the game they put a lot of effort into at a normal speed.

You are arbitrarily conflating actual physical disability with simply not having enough time in the day to play video games, which is not the same thing at all, and I think you should probably feel bad for having drawn this comparison at all, given that I know physically disabled people who play...