Any hot take on why Dallas keeps getting their ass beat, like hard? I feel safe saying that going into OWL, they were the favorites of the American teams. Losing to Seoul wasn’t that surprising, and they put up a pretty good fight. They got demolished against LAV, which seemed to come out of nowhere. The first two…

There was a recipe similar to this one (boil in milk and don’t drain) on America’s Test Kitchen two weeks ago I think. Remembered thinking it was an interesting method. Wonder if no-roux, no-drain mac and cheese is just in the zeitgeist right now.

Based on your reporting from yesterday, I was planning on picking up Ys VIII on PC at the end of the month. But considering my backlog, I probably wouldn’t get around to playing it until it was released on Switch anyway. Aside from the graphical differences and portability of the Switch, is there a reason one might…

Apparently there is a nascent modding community for ME:A. Debating picking it back up with a couple of mods that rework the crafting system and seeing if that helps anything. Maybe there are some Bethesda-eque modes that tweak the models and animations as well.

Does this count as one of the new games with a battleground mode for Jason’s predictions?

One hiccup that I can see is that FreeSync only works with AMD cards. Not the end of the world, but just an FYI.

I thought I played quite a few games (well, at least bought and removed the shrink wrap) this year, but even your off years blow past me. December for me has been more Overwatch (a monthly mainstay since my wife and I started playing in May), raiding in WoW, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I swear this is the last time I…

A2 fixed a lot of the broken abilities (like the OHKO Assassin abilities) and nerfed the shit out of the Thief abilities if I recall correctly. Of course, they introduced a bunch of other ways to break the game as well. I think it was criticized for being more of the same, but they also made the Law system far more…

I followed a guide for my playthrough of Persona 5. Except I somehow fucked it up in like early June (fuck you Ryuji, I know it was your fault), and due to the meticulously planned nature of the walkthrough, this created a snowball effect that screwed with the timing of every day after that. I eventually was able to…

FFVIII was the first Final Fantasy game I played. Never actually finished it (got to Ultimecia’s Castle, not sure if that was before or after the Time Compression), but really enjoyed it. The Draw system was hit or miss, but I loved that you could junction just about any magic to any stat to get some really…

My apartment building has a non-Amazon branded version of the mail locker called Package Concierge. I’d imagine they work fairly similarly; the delivery person deposits the package in the locker and the system sends a text and email alerting me that I have a package and then again when it’s been picked up. I think the…

I swear this is not “I shit on Jason every week,” but how can you dislike Futaba? She’s adorable.

Curious if Blizzard will do an event for the Winter Games. Seems like it might have overlapped with some of the Winter Wonderland skins though, so probably not. Haven’t had a new event since Anniversary last year.

Was hoping for a Mrs. Claus or Elsa themed Mercy skin, but the Sombra skin is probably the best of the bunch. Just opened my haul of loot boxes and got all the event items save for Santa Torb and the new Sombra. Will pick them up eventually if I don’t get them from other loot boxes before the event ends.

He was kicked off, yes, but in subsequent interviews the judges stated that he had had the worst performance of the contestants that elimination round anyway and would have been cut regardless. They should have disqualified everyone and named Marcel the winner as they have discussed. They only didn’t do so because…

I’ve been playing with the Japanese VOs as well. I get the impression it’s a lot more enjoyable experience this way.

The wife and I watch Top Chef on the regular and have seen every episode at least twice, if not many more (she rewatches old seasons a lot). That said, I hate season two. It is almost unwatchable. Ilan is a smug little shit and the less said about Michael Midgley, the better. Marcel didn’t come across terribly great…

Why did they not call it Mari-Os? Feels like a major missed opportunity.

Thanks for the response Jason. I haven’t read your original XC1 review in a while, so I don’t remember much other than your noted dislike of it. I don’t think XC2 is a great game by any means. I don’t like the lack of bounding boxes in the environment; you can and will fall off precarious ledges and walkways and lose…

Couple thoughts.