- Calvin and Hobbes, September 1, 1992

My understanding was that CP2077 WAS being developed for PS4/XB1. I think CDPR bit off more than they could chew by also making it for PS5/XBX. Now here they are, choking on it. Hard.

That thick layer of mayo on top of the oreo crumbles makes me want to gag and weird food combos rarely ever make feel that way.

And all this crunching is for a fucking VIDEO GAME. It’d be one thing to crunch to release a life-saving medicine, or fix a software bug that was going to cause plane crashes, or something like that. No one’s gonna die if a game comes out 6 months late. 

Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, and Pierce Brosnan. Only the current iteration, featuring Daniel Craig, is missing.

The latest ACs are fun, but you kind of have to shut your brain off when it comes to who you are killing. Odyssey had you alternately killing Spartans and Athenians and then facing really no repercussions with either faction for doing it other than obtaining a bounty you could pay off (or murder your way out of).

Like, I know that the Vikings weren’t strictly colonists, but it already feels kinda weird raiding and sacking shit.

Regardless of anyone’s feeling about the character, what they did to Marie Tran in particular was extraordinarily fucked up. I’m furious for Boyega, too, obviously.

Agreed with all, but please don’t prolong the current misguided jargon of using the word “optics” to describe the emotional or social impact of a story. Optics is the physical and biological science of how we see, not how our perceptions impact opinions. That usage of the word is synergistic paradigm-breaking…

Always happy to get remastered versions of games I love (though how happy might depend on the price point, as I still own all the originals). Won’t lie, though: I was hoping for more of a ‘remake’, at least as far as the first game is concerned, as I would have loved for BioWare to tweak its actual gameplay to be more…

You’d have a point to make if Kotaku hadn’t covered and are still covering this extensively but they have.

Pfft.  OK, boomer.

is that supposed to be an argument in favor of how things ended up? i thought the prequel trilogy established George doesn’t and never did make good decisions about the direction of the movies. the original trilogy only went well because he was on a leash and had people telling him no when he came up with something…

Not only did I like Solo, but I still do like Solo. It’s not the absolute zenith of Star Wars storytelling, but it’s hardly the nadir, either, and it’s full of fun, with at least one fairly audacious, daring surprise. The cinematography’s a bit dark, but otherwise I really dig it, and I wish it had done better at the…

I wish they had stuck to the original plan and had interesting directors make episodes 8 & 9. TFA was... fine, and I’ll give it credit for establishing new and interesting characters, but TLJ was fantastic. TRoS was just a pile of trash and ruined what could have been a good trilogy established by the first two films.

The entire use of ‘don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good!’ is as wrong-headed as it comes. It’s become an easy-go-to to deride and dismiss any leftist concerns. And that’s what your 2nd para concentrates on; this idea that Leftists are focused on the inconsequential nitty-gritty, to the detriment of the…

It was probably a 24 hour comic challenge.  It’s fine if it’s not your cup of tea, but you can just, you know, scroll on past it.

To be fair, white males have no end of video games where they play as a white male. It’s not like “finally, it’s our time to shine!”

Keep telling yourself how it is okay to crunch so you can play the game at launch without feeling guilty

I always struggle with this line of thinking. I mean, not about this, because I don’t particularly like Harry Potter stuff and never have, but in general.

I find the whole issue complex. I don’t like thinking of engaging with media as a financial transaction. The fact that it feels weird to know the behind-the-scenes…