That song was… awful (Trixie and Symone can’t even bring themselves to say anything nice about it on the Pit Stop), but damn is Kylie a satisfying winner. What a great story, what a great queen. 

Just finished Psychonauts 2 last night and adored it. Yes, the platforming is fiddly and irksome- that first third of “Bob’s Bottles” with its no-margin-of-error platforming nearly broke me. But the characters are all so compelling, the art direction so brilliant, the imagination and love that went into it so…

Bring in the dancing lobsters!

“I haven’t thought about unionization much, so here’s a few boilerplate anti-union, tech bro- libertarian statements.”

It was Jan’s time. I just don’t think there was anything left to… see here, really. Ru is right on the money: she’s technically perfect, but lacking the human element, the imperfections that make us compelling. She just wants to please, almost compulsively, but can’t seem to wrap her head around the fact that what…

I’m surprised the number of people playing Soldiers has been so consistently high. I’m playing as Soldier in my LE playthrough simply because it’s the class I’ve never played in any of my many previous playthroughs- and it’s tremendously boring.

Unless this game was marketed as a suicide simulator, I’m not sure how the devs changing a concept they feel they can no longer stand behind is “anti-consumer.” When you buy a game, you are agreeing to allow it to be patched and updated. The idea of required updates is not novel. If books and film also existed solely…

Jan is testament to the fact that being very capable and talented is not the same as being a star. She’s kind of master of noned herself into being… bland. Her thought process of choosing the lipstick was probably the most revealing thing she’s presented on the show across her two seasons: someone desperate not to…

I really, really wanted to like The Outer Worlds, but it really did very little for me. It couldn’t really sustain its satirical tone in a compelling way, and clearly suffered from cut content and budget constraints, particularly in the second half of the game. Characters and plot were largely unmemorable, enemies and…

Valve is such a strange force in gaming. If you had told people ten years ago that the developer of Half Life 2 and Portal would all but stop developing games, you would’ve been laughed at. But that’s basically what’s happened. Alyx was a pitch for an extremely niche audience and the vast majority of gamers can’t play…

The reds in this ME1 remaster are really really saturated. It’s very odd. It means lighter and medium brown skin tones end up looking like Red Skull, and any reddish tones in the paler skin colors look like skin conditions. 

This is a truly strange take. Replayability and customizability of branching narrative games like this is one of their key selling points and main reasons why they’re loved. Those who love these games replay them several or many times. 

Rosé had the best overall combined runway? I think Gottmik and Symone were both so far and away ahead of everybody else on that. 

I think Symone is one of the most deserving winners of Drag Race ever. Just a true star.
This season, though, just was needlessly long. It started January 1st, and we’re getting a finale at the end of April. The 3-episode start to the season was a drawn-out dud that ultimately meant nothing. The undeserved double save…

I played the entire trilogy for the first time this winter and I really, really enjoyed DA:2! I mean, yes, the fact it was a rush job is not hidden at all: Kirkwall is pretty but lifeless, the romances don’t feel particularly emotional even if your partner moves in with you, there are like four dungeon maps that just…

These penultimate episodes are always kind of a slog for me. There stakes feel so low, since nobody’s going home. The challenge is not the focus, so there’s no question about whether it’ll be pulled off. The judging is just puff, regardless of what the queens do or wear. It’s an hour and a half of being told how great…

I need to revisit this game. I played it at the very start of 2020 and although I could admire it a great deal and thought it was excellent, I found it was overlapping with my experience at the time dealing with a very close friend going through a major drug problem. It’s an exceptional game, but it’s not an…

I’m struggling to figure out how this is any different from the equally sleazy art world, in which massive amounts of money change hands ostensibly to purchase a piece of art but really just serve as a way to flaunt and protect one’s wealth. Aside from the lack of, y’know, a physical object, and a far more negative…

the difference is Kandy paid someone to make hers.

Top 3! And Kandy.