This is my natural, everyday screeching, I’ll have you know.

And I thought the Pre-Sequel was a wretched stinkbomb of unfunniness, except for the two or three jokes you could tell Burch came back to write.

Uh, no. Party cut pizza, which is just regular thin-crust pizza cut into squares instead of wedges, is popular among Chicagoans. That shit that St. Louians call pizza, with its white Velveeta that they’re so inexplicably proud of, is something no one here would ever think to put in their mouth.

Two reasons why I’d rather take a train than fly:

This has been the No. 1 problem with Overwatch from the beginning: There’s no consequence for being a bad teammate. The only way to avoid bad teammates is to leave games with bad teammates, but leaving is characterized as being a bad teammate. Thus, people who care more about teamwork are penalized, and people who…

I think Overwatch shed 40 percent of people who cared about the game enough to report toxic behavior.

Are we sure that 40 percent of players haven’t just given up on reporting toxic behavior?

Then vent your spleen at the execs, not at the devs who have to choose between doing what the execs tell them to do and working at Best Buy.

If you buy a house and after a few months of living there find that it doesn’t suit your lifestyle, do you heap abuse on the goddamn carpenters?

Let’s talk about automated voice menus that require you to talk to a computer rather than “press 1 for whatever.” Don’t fucking insult me, OK? It’s bad enough that I’m not important enough for you to hire a human being to handle my call; when you make me talk to your damn computer, you’re telling me it and I are on par…

I’m coming to the conclusion that PC/console gaming culture is a mental illness and needs to be treated as such.

The toxics finally drove the rest of us away.

I thought, and still think, that Overwatch is a great game.

Borderlands 2 was great because of its writing. Borderlands and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel were mediocre because of their writing. Underneath, they’re all the same game. Which goes to show, or ought to, how much good writing matters—and in some respects, how much more it matters than the underlying mechanics do.

The reason why many unions do aggressively protect senior employees is that senior employees have devoted more of their years to their jobs and have fewer options when their employers screw them over than younger workers have, and they’re also more likely to be targeted by employers because their experience makes…

First, that depends on the union.

Blizzard’s 2018 mandate had been to cut costs and produce more games

I played The Sims for a while. I stopped playing when I realized it just reminded me of how empty and repetitive my own life was.

The only kind of multiplayer game I want to play at this point is co-op with friends. After two and a half years of having my Overwatch experience ruined by other gamers, I can’t imagine what possible enjoyment could come from playing in the same sandbox with strangers. I’m not a griefer and have no interest in…

Overwatch is a great game. Overwatch’s player community is hot garbage.