the first couple of hours are the most challenging to get over, especially if you’re not familiar with the lore. i’d actually recommend watching the netflix series’ first season to get a taste of the world, to “buy into it.” obviously if the witcher 1 and 2 were available on ps4 or 5 i’d recommend those, but they’re…

i think the issue is that gamefreak is impacted by too many competing interests outside of the world of videogames. the mainline games are all released to align with trading cards, anime, etc. thus nintendo’s typical methodology of never releasing a buggy game is thrown out.

it’s basically an xbox one x slim. 

“MrBeast dethroning the OG King of YouTube makes sense when you think about his content in relation to PewDiePie’s.”

i’m nearly done reading The Passenger (which is great) so I’m really in the mood to read about McCarthy. Thanks for this! (although I disagree on The Counselor, love that movie in all its excess...)

the final scene underscores the tragedy that even those of us with the most noble intentions may be too shortsighted, too sidelined by the mundane, to be able to overcome the horror and injustice in the world. this is why, i think, Bell’s dream “feels flat”—its meaning is inexact. if a person cannot even grasp the…

if you’re incapable of explaining human sexuality to your child then you’re a failure of a parent. there are ways of explaining love without triggering your apparent immature squeamishness. raise your children to be better than yourself. 

i see—i think i bypassed any problems at the time by buying the physical disc. it may actually have been one of the last physical discs i ever bought for a pc game.

when was this? i feel like things must’ve improved in the 14 years since Stalker Clear Sky was released. Great game, though!

counterpoint: before steam it was a pain in the ass to patch your game everytime there was a bug fix. you might take it for granted now that your game just auto-updates, but prior to steam that simply didn’t exist. and you might have to fuss quite a bit with folder and file structure to fix your own game. now…

it is kinda what’s going on here. south korea, japan and china all have a demonstrated fixation on the “whiteness” of western culture, whether that’s having an Anne of Green Gables-land, or using western europe’s medieval history as a sandbox for their own stories (whether that’s Elden Ring or Final Fantasy), because…

according to MS, gamepass will only ever amount for no more than 15% of their income on the platform annually—that’s the hard ceiling on GP.

the show is just an exhibit in wasted potential, especially wasting cavill.

don’t conflate the creative direction of cavill as superman with his performance of the character. honestly he nails the tone and presence of the character—and makes the role his own, a modern clark kent and superman, rather than immersing himself in a homage to the late great christopher reeve.

i imagine the witcher is a much bigger time commitment than superman. when cavill was superman he seemed to have time to join a number of other projects, but he’s been notably less productive since the witcher started.

RIP.

i mean, the books do suck—at least, in terms of their literary merits. i can understand why writers would dislike them. but there is a lot to work with, regardless, and i think any writer worth their salt would see the job as an opportunity to improve upon and take advantage of the enormous fantasy world at their…

it honestly sounds like the game is trying to make a point by using provocative scenarios and gameplay mechanics, but the critic doesn’t realize it’s deliberate on the game’s part. instead the critic is just restating the game’s own point as if their own criticism of the game rather than engaging the themes of inequali…

i’m okay with political criticism of videogames as long as the criticism is valid. but it’s weird how the critic seems to think the game’s political commentary only begins in earnest in the second half of the game, whereas earlier missions were simply offensive. but i dunno, a mission where you shoot innocent…

the USA under Trump or a Trump-alike is exactly the unstable, global level threat you describe.