I feel like there are also overtones of The Stanley Parable here.

I find sometimes I have a little bit of hesitation before starting a new game, even if it’s one that’s otherwise of interest. I even like seeing new lore and new takes on things. There is something genuinely complex about starting a new game, and I think it’s worth acknowledging how hard it is. You have to learn new…

Subtitles on - they are immensely helpful in picking up on dialog that overlaps noisy gameplay, as commonly happens.

How can you tell Generation X failed, when literally no one ever asked us what we thought? For the most part, the media went straight from talking about what Boomers thought to what Millennials thought. “Slackers” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and all that represent a tiny slice of what our lives have been like, and…

How much longer before Google gets bored of Stadia altogether and shuts it down? I’m giving it six months maximum at this point.

In Quantum Break’s timeline, the End of Time happens on January 5, 2021, and it sounds pretty grim.

The whole thing arises out of the marketing industry looking for a new way to promote products. People use adblockers and fast forward past advertisements because we all hate them, and we basically just tune them out as much as possible. They’ve decided the next thing is to make product promotion an integral part of…

Conservatives: “trigger warnings” lol
Conservatives, also: OMG why did no one warn me the football dancing lady could turn me on!

And let that be a lesson!

My guess is, their lawyers described for them a scenario in which someone rapes a woman and the victim sues Steam because the attacker was inspired by, or re-enacting something from, Rape Day.

Chris Sawyer has spent the last decade basically re-writing his old games from scratch for Android. He did this also with Transport Tycoon, which ate up gobs and gobs of my time back in the early 90s. This was another game he originally wrote in x86 Assembly.

4chan is, very disconcertingly, becoming a major supplier of ideas and projects on the far right. It’s not pleasant to know what they are talking about but it’s important. There’s nothing new about dehumanizing people you don’t like, but re-packaging it like this may sell the idea to someone who had rejected it before…

An entire panel selected, then just told to go home? Just like that? OKEY DOKEY.

Eh, I hope we’re not just treated to the Horde being the villains here yet again. (Though arguably Genn Greymane started it with his unprovoked attack on Sylvanas in Stormheim.)

The lore in 7.3 has some elements that have surprised me more than anything else I’ve seen in WoW since... well, since the Wrathgate, to be honest. I really like where they’re going with it. But, I don’t think Argus really has enough to make up a whole expansion. I think they’ve done it just right.

A warning to the user that they need to take the wheel should read “Take the Wheel” rather than “Hands Required Not Detected,” which is software-engineer-speak (and sounds like the opposite of what it means).

And neither of them brought up the 800 lb gorilla, which is that if Marvel had made the Ancient One a Tibetan, they could kiss the Chinese market goodbye.

Eh. I’ve seen worse than this on floats in Mardi Gras parades (and waved for beads all the same).

We definitely need a definitive ranking of the order halls.

No, but then again, almost all of the sex I’ve had with men has been of the oral variety. If they say anything at all afterwards, it’s more often “thanks!” than anything else.