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Is that Overwatch but everyone is in their underwear?

I can’t even get excited about Valve anymore. Blizzard takes their sweet time doing things, and they only trickle out new IPs, but they’re always on top of their products; they constantly communicate with their fanbase; and you can expect new stuff—even if it’s from an old IP—frequently. Plenty of other companies are…

An email I sent and the response, from earlier in the day. Note the time of his reply...

I really appreciate the fact that Jim Sterling contributes to stuff like this happening on Steam. Some people think he’s obnoxious, but even then, he’s very committed (maybe even overly-committed) to calling out bullshit when he sees it.

I will say the same thing about my search history. Awe or shame. Awe as in “Why the hell did he ever look for that” and shame as in “Why the HELL did he ever look for THAT!”

“Why the hell did he buy so many games that he never played”

This is pretty much my reaction when I look at my own Steam account. :-)

My future children will look at my Steam account and either shake their heads in awe or shame.

Exactly...when I was an instructor I used to tell my students, “There is no right or wrong technique, but there is effective and ineffective depending on the situation.”

Hey, any martial artist will tell you that result is better than style in a real world situation. Perfect execution is for tournaments.

Final Fantasy XV and The Last Guardian are almost certainly going to get delayed again so I don’t blame you for leaving them off this list.

Got it.

Fun movie drinking story: I was unemployed and had a really bad interview that morning, so I figured I’d grab a cheap bottle of wine and go see what was playing at the local theater. All they had at that hour was Minions, so I gamely decided to see it. So the parents in the theater got to witness a man in a suit, on a…

I thought it was serviceable. Decent enough for a video game movie, though there was no heart to it. It did have to do the unenviable job of establishing a lot of exposition and set-up. But it feels like a good starting point for the franchise, if it manages to get off the ground after this and gets a sequel. They…

I have a degree in cinema studies.

The fact that his name is Doom Slayer and yet hospitals are not flooded with gamers who rolled their eyes right out of their sockets is a god damn miracle

We’re getting to the age where kids who grew up with Pokemon are full-grown adults with jobs and even managerial positions. It’s not going to be weird to talk about Pokemon even in a grown-up setting. It’ll be a shared cultural touchstone that will descend through the generational progression.