At some point, somebody has to produce evidence that this dude has been cheating in these games that isn’t just, “he cheated online in the past and he’s weird.”

I agree with your sentiments... this is the first Star Wars media set pre-original trilogy that jives with how I always pictured things being. To be honest, the Empire forming and the fall of the Jedi occurring 20 years before A New Hope never *really* made a ton of sense to me, based on what we see and hear in the…

I have to imagine that Nintendo, a corporation that is so tightly controlling of its characters, has been breathing over the shoulders of Illumination during every moment of producing this to ensure none of these characters deviate substantially from their expectations. It… kind of makes me confident that end result…

Yes! I was coming here to point it out. Loved seeing that. 

At least they’re not NFTs

Nintendo has had the handheld market cornered for about 30 years, and then gambled on merging their handheld and home consoles into one system… which turned out to be an incredibly successful decision. Not sure it’s fair or accurate to imply the Switch was basically just the Vita, but with BotW. Clearly it has a lot…

AC: Odyssey showed me that just because you can put every Greek isle into a game, doesn’t mean you should. The game was padded to an absurd degree, and most of the quests seemed like they went from A to C in terms of emotional build and character development.

The meta narrative is incoherent nonsense that people slog through to get back to the real personality of the series: being a badass in historical periods and meeting and/or killing historical figures. 

These people are incapable of understanding the world and human behavior through any lens other than “making money.” The idea that someone would play a game for leisure and personal enjoyment is simple, yet they never seem to be able to grasp it. They dehumanize everyone, including themselves. And of course this is…

Yes, they’re definitely more interested in tying up trilogy-wide plotlines than focusing on ME3's plot, which is largely all about stalling the Reapers for as long as possible and is not actually that exciting. The trilogy’s strength was always world building and character relationships, and I do think those things…

I think the Tuchanka and Rannoch arcs of ME3 are pretty darn great, particularly how they provided new points of view into established races. But I agree that Cerberus is a major problem. There just wasn’t enough development there to make them worth elevating to the role of primary antagonists through much of the…

The cars handle like unicycles on ice. There are considerable parts of Night City with truly nothing to do or experience. The main plot peters out fairly quickly. The character-based subplots are all pretty great, but oddly the game doesn’t even nudge you to take many of them. Quickhacks are so absurdly overpowered,…

I feel the same way. I was finding myself motorcycling around Night City to get from place to place just because the vibe was so good. Of course, motorcycles are the only vehicle that I was able to consistently handle, but still!

Do you need some dressing to go with all this word salad 

The only thing these lunatics hate more than women and minorities is the totally reasonable and predictable consequences of their own actions. 

While I doubt the name and association with Prey 2006 was a factor in the general public’s decision to buy or not buy the game, the fact that Prey 2017 is an immersive sim that appeals to a more niche crowd that is probably far more likely to associate the title with the other game likely had some effect on its sales.…

Valve’s received a lot of flack over the last 15 years for abandoning Episode 3 and honestly… it’s not enough. What the fuck, guys. 

What the AI is doing is beyond merely being a tool. The human is creating a concept then putting that into prompt. The AI is doing research, the AI is doing composition, the AI is choosing what specific kind of tool it’s emulating, it’s selecting colors, it’s drafting, and more. Even when a human makes specifications,…

I’m not missing that. I just don’t think any of that necessarily makes what an AI produces art because, ultimately, the image produced is so many steps removed from any human source. If you believe that all art is simply a rearrangement of data points, then sure. I think that’s a very Silicon Valley approach to…

They can’t, but when you resurrect a follower their lifespan basically resets.