I want to buy this but I know myself too well... I’m going to play it for about 90 min over the course of two sessions and while I’ll enjoy it, my g/f won’t play it with me because it looks ‘too difficult’ and I’ll get distracted by my next purchase and never come back to it. I’ve had to make myself stop buying arcade…

look on the brightside... maybe this is not a naked cash grab and instead is like a FF7 type of situation where in the remake, Joel will be able to stop the mushroombies from even appearing in the first place.

i kinda low-key rage about all the people who ask for another g-d Wind Waker polish job. But this is some next-level bs. Video gaming has become an exhausting, greedy hobby.

PS7: 3 Last of Us!!!

OK, but those Schwann’s root beer float popsicles were actually the best thing ever. If a subscription service promised those for under $30/mo, I’d probably do the Fry.gif in real life.

I always forget that about console discs... I know it, but it’s so completely stupid that I forget it all the time.

You misunderstood. If I *can* get it at Target, it doesn’t matter. My point is that Target’s selection is very small and focused on big new releases. If I want anything less common or an older release, I have to go to Gamestop.

storage prices need to come way down too, in order for digital to not be a losing proposition.

Yeah, I don’t like defending GS but buying games from Target, etc is a losing proposition unless you’re the most basic of bitches.  It’s like shopping for music at a gas station.  

until there’s a way for me to re-sell digital games, I’m going to prefer physical. And that probably means gamestop or something remarkably similar. Hopefully without the Walmart-on-coke business practices.

this sounds cool and i’d like to know more, but i really don’t want to watch a video at work. Or ever on a website, really. Guess I’ll go to another site that has screenshots...

not all co-ops are worker co-ops. Many, like mine, are customer/community co-ops, where the people that shop there have the equity. I feel like of all the food co-ops I know, most that I can think of fall into that category. Not that there aren’t employees who own shares, but they do so as shoppers who happen to work…

I’d agree with your stance were it not for the presence of union dues. To take bigburito’s example, $.25/hr is probably $8/wk after taxes. So if he is paying $50 a month in union dues (don’t know what they are, but I feel like that’s probably not an insanely high guess), he’s behind already.

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R&C is definitely a fun series, but I feel like it’s a series that hasn’t gotten more fun as tech opens up.  The early ones aren’t noticeably worse than recent entries.  I’d like to play the new one on PS5 and I’m sure I will someday, but I still haven’t beaten the PS4 reboot.  

i hear that, especially as one who fell to early bosses many times an hour, but I’ve always used load times as snack breaks and whatnot, so I guess I’ve never been that bothered by them.

There was an interesting article in the NY Times about how Spotify had led pop songs to be written in a new way to chase listeners. New conventions, structures... bigger changes to songcraft than in a few decades.

I’d like to say that these guys just lost a sale, but I really don’t think I would have bought any of these anyway. I love the Arkham series (or at least the first 2), but GK looks like a wet fart and I’m not into co-op. The others barely even registered on my radar.

Agreed.  But I’m not seeing a whole lot of hopeful signs going on outside the USA’s borders either.

They’re not—because the world is absolute garbage and beyond saving. Nobody responsible for anything like this will face consequences that measure up to their offense. I’d give anything to be wrong, but I don’t feel like I am.