At a certain point in reading this I stopped considering whether I’m putting down money and just got engrossed in a moving and emotionally vivid review. That was great.

Brief googling puts competitive Melee at about 900 APM versus SFV, which comes in around 300-400. So not quite that ridiculous, but still quite impressive. Notably APM isn’t the sole standard we’d judge a game by. I prefer to watch Melee because it’s always obvious how impressive what they’re doing is, but people way…

This track really requires decent sound quality, I felt pretty meh about it when it was playing through shitty chromebook speakers but on a hunch I plugged in the headphones and suddenly decided I need to be into Maitro.

Hell we could skip straight to Sterling Archer Presents: Gator 2

If these are promises that anyone can actually deliver on, I say stealth launch it. Though this type of hype seems to be working on greenlight voters, if you can actually match the elevator pitch of procedurally generated, fun and non-repetitive sci-fi games, that will sell itself. At this point making these promises…

SNES always held a special place in my heart, it got me into gaming, as my babysitters brother had one and used to play it with me when I was a youngin. He used to wait until I was about to go against a boss (normally in Super Mario World) and then go all tickle monster on me. It took me many years to realize that guy…

Don’t know what “hebephile” is so I can’t make any judgment there, but I scrolled through the dudes tumblr and while Im all about being open minded, he draws explicit pictures of Ellie. Underaged characters is where I draw some hard lines man.

Holy shit I forgot about Bad Dragon.

I paid $10 for it (roommate was a sony intern). Not worth it.

I’m not from there but spent four years in Bridgeport. It was awful on every level—apparently in the next 20 years, half the city will sink into the lake, the grid layout of the streets will be replaced with inefficient winding roads, Skokie will move closer to the city, arictecture will become bland and boring, and…

I think the first time it happened to me I got a Nintendo power subscription to avoid it in the future. There were various levels of broken—punky skunky didn’t seem to have an end, it just went to an endless loading screen after so many levels, but there was this one vampire game I had with an invincible first enemy…

Yeah I’m hoping the sequel did a better job representing San Francisco than the first did representing Chicago.

Hm I think I’m actually gonna gamefly watchdogs 2. Which I never thought I’d say, as the first watchdogs is probably my least favorite game I’d ever finished.

It totally sucks, but i do keep in mind the old days, when you could buy a game that would be completely broken and unplayable and there was no eventual solution. It’s shitty that “release broken game and patch it post launch” is the new normal, but the old normal was “a certain portion of games will be broken and…

Pragmatically I can see why that would be important for such a career, and I get the “all in good fun” pedantry. I actually have a colleague (I’m a philosophy phd student), who is a total Wittgensteinian and believes that descriptivism is the correct stance, but still get’s on people for using “incorrect” grammar…

Fuck, I messed up my faux-prescriptivist character. I’m a linguistic descriptivist honestly, if the meaning was understood in the context in which it was said, I consider it to be grammatically correct. I probably take it about as seriously as you seem to take prescriptivism.

What ever happened to the rules of language? “You” is the formal plural, ye want “Ye” or “Thou” when referring to one person. ;P

I’m kind of ok with webcomics having merit outside of being funny.

I have mixed feelings on this one. Generally speaking I’m against preorders as they incentivize devs to make promises they can’t keep and in turn incentivize companies to underproduce stock so as to make people think preorders are still necessary in a time when companies have the ability to produce enough stock. It…

Well that was a bad move on Nintendos part. At $60 it could be a modest Christmas gift and sell fuckloads, but if there isn’t enough stock they’re limiting their base to hardcore Nintendo fans who are willing to pay hundreds for games a large part of that demographic already own in one form or another. $60 can compete…