Also known as: Andy has lots of opinions on trivial matters. Many of these are about games and videogames.
- The classic D&D alignment chart is not useful for beginners and tends to do more harm than good trying to use it as a rigid rule rather than a fuzzy descriptor of a character's guiding principles;
- Good spelling has its importance, but it cannot be more important than the thing words try to express. In other words---when it comes to language---function over form;
- Bragging about a high IQ is way worse than bragging about having a large dick. The latter can at least be demonstrably used for something and be put to good use;
- Final Fantasy VII is a good enough game. It's overrated because of a combination of technical achievements and nostalgia;
- Reading is as much of a time waster as watching TV/movies. Both media can be a great tool for educating oneself and a giant waste of time with no other redeeming value other than pure entertainment. No one is "better" for preferring to read and no one is "worse" for preferring Netflix;
- It's better to read and understand a pamphlet than to read and pretend to understand James Joyce just to brag;
- Arguing (with strangers) on the internet is mostly pointless;
- Final Fantasy X-2 gets a lot of unnecessary shit, and it's a good story about existentialism;
- Turning your personal Instagram profile into a business one is highly annoying and makes me not want to engage, consume or advertise your product or service at all;
- If you're asking me---a single man who doesn't want to think of having kids right now---to "like" your Facebook page about baby products, it makes me think you don't really do your research;
- Most people don't know that scientific papers are meant to be as narrow as possible, therefore making broad conclusions using them as a source tells me you don't know enough science;
- The Roguelike/Roguelite genre has been overcrowded for at least 3 years;
- Google Wave would be amazing in the hands of creative zoomers/Gen-Z;
- Seen from the outside, 'MURICA's relationship with its Constitution is comical at best and unhealthily obsessive at worst;
- The Tabletop Roleplaying Community would see even more growth if it advertised all the possible games, themes, feelings and goals beyond Dungeons & Dragons;
- Creating any kind of social media profile for your child---under a certain age---should be outlawed, if anything to respect the individual's right to privacy and autonomy over their image, identity and online presence;
- Copyright should expire after 20 years, everywhere;
- Lots of book nerds seem to forget that film is a whole different media than books and as such it has different capabilities, limitations and goals than printed media;
- Andy has left opinions on 77 games on Steam so far;
- Terraria >>> Starbound;
- If I ask you "what kind of music do you listen to?" and you tell me "a bit of everything" without follow up, I consider you will listen to any crap they put in your speakers;
- Bravely Default should be rereleased for PC; same for Bravely Second—Good news: Bravely Second is now on Steam!;
- Lots of people asking for "unbiased" or "objective" reviews actually want subjective reviews that agree with them;
- There's no such thing as an "objective" review for entertainment;
- If you apply the "never, ever speak to an ex" rule, I suspect there's also some ugly issues in you (also known as "I believe breakups can be civil");
- There's nothing wrong with instant coffee, given that it's regular coffee, made from coffee beans. It's just been freeze dried;
- The Polynomial is a gem of programming and is great in altered states of consciousness;
- FreeCell > Klondike (your regular "Solitaire" that comes bundled in Windows)
- I'm prepared to partially forgive Christopher Paolini for some of his atrocious prose because of his age;
- Gen 1 Pokemon was many things---iconic, super successful both in the critical and commercial aspects, etc---but it was not balanced and it was not a hard game;
- Final Fantasy XIII actually had several very interesting mechanics, that were sadly obscured by its corridor-like story and maps. And Hope. And Snow. Vanille is actually a qt;
- Just because someone learned from [insert shitty situation] doesn't mean everyone should go through it;
- Just because someone learned from [insert activity, setting or occupation] doesn't mean doing it will teach everyone something;
- Doom clones lose lots of their difficulty when you enable mouselook, and sometimes this is for the better;
- Dancing Mad >>> One-Winged Angel. Don't @ me
- The Final Fantasy brand has lots of very interesting mechanics and stories in the handheld games, some of which are better than the main series