I’m in the same boat.  I have built PC’s before, but never really enjoyed the experience. Which is why now I buy the parts and let the retailer assemble it for me.

Yep. I’ve “built” 3 PC’s now that way and I wouldn’t go back to anything different. If your PC parts retailer also services computers, it’s kindof a no brainier that they will have the tools and know-how to build it way better than you, and you have the added benefit of them testing and diagnosing anything that isn’t…

I like getting the best of both worlds. I like to research and purchase all of my components, and then ask them at the store if they will build it for me so I don’t have to worry about messing it up. I know there’s supposed to be some kind of personal satisfaction that one gets from putting everything together, but I…

Yeah, I gotta disagree on the couch co-op.  I bought a second gaming PC for my rec-room, specifically so I could play couch co-op games with my family. Still annoys me that Diablo IV PC version has no couch co-op.

This has got to be the cringiest news story of the decade.

First 5 - 10 hours? I’ve got about 35 hours logged now, and this is the first I’ve even heard of travel medallions!

Your friends are full of shit or playing on potatoes. Only noticeable bug I encountered in my first play through was a certain main character’s body getting trapped under, instead of inside a car, which was funny as hell in the circumstances.

Looks like he can really rock a moustache! I liked Gatwa on Sex-Ed I’m looking forward to what he can bring to The Doctor.

Kinjad.

One of 2023's best games seems to have landed with a rather heavy wet thud at Kotaku. The first paragraph of the Kotaku review by John Walker reads as follows:

Other countries and major US states like Canada are currently debating similar bills that would force internet companies like Meta to pay a “journalism usage fee” when sharing news content.

Definitely a more reliable source than Facebook.

Good for them.  Not so great for the rest of us.

There’s a big difference between making something new that nobody knows they want, and continuing something old that everyone knows that they don’t want.

Except this is just such a pointlessly “safe” movie. It’s basically a continuation of something that had reached a perfectly logical end-point because the suits know that there’s safe money in continuity.

It’s really weird that FF XVI would have such a homogeneous cast when their previous entries were so loaded with cultural diversity and representation.

It’s a shame that the Star Wars movie that nobody asked for is going to rake in millions of dollars. This has nothing to do with people hating on Rey because she’s a “Mary Sue” or whatever, it’s the simple fact that the Skywalker ennealogy was supposed to be closed.

For me it was more like GP gave me something to play with my friends. Something would come out, and we could all play it because we all had GP.

I guess I was one of the most dejected players, because FF XIII’s battle system definitely did not carry me through.

Hmm, this may be an unsubscribe for me. It’s not the $2, but the fact that they haven’t put out a single title I’ve been interested in playing since Darktide, which was highly mid and lacking in content. Never even bothered with whatever that flop from Arkane was called (I’ve honestly already forgotten the name of the…