Gaming is no different than any other broadly appealing hobby: in a large enough group, a portion of the audience is inevitably going to be loud, immature, low self-esteem assholes (children, teenagers, particularly sad adults) and if you allow those people the opportunity to interact with the outside world in an…

About 15 years too late on that one. Fox News has long-since turned a desire for inclusion in to an assault on Christian sensibilities.

It was merely a way to differentiate that period of Green Day from previous periods. No gender-related derision was intended.

I would tend to agree. I always chalked it up to getting older and “not getting it” anymore but to me, indie rock always seemed like the antithesis of rock music It’s like a whole generation saw Radiohead and only took away the painfully shy, “tortured artist” part of Thom Yorke’s persona and left out all of the parts…

I don’t know that I’d necessarily say that I regret it but yeah, I’ve let my XBL Gold lapse this year for the first time in ten years because I didn’t turn it on for 6 months straight. I always buy all the consoles anyway because I have the means to and I like playing all the games worth playing but yeah, if someone…

Wow, it’s like 1997 usenet all over again.

I’d argue it’s rather fitting.

Nintendo had a great year (a fantastic Zelda and Mario game in the same year hasn’t happened in.... ever?) but people’s enthusiastic recommendations of the Switch for the long-term is baffling. Nintendo keeps making stupid Nintendo decisions, the system has a laughably bad online solution (and any confidence that…

“the oft-misunderstood Devil May Cry 2"

It’s not wrong. It’s just not commonly shared opinion. MMX1 is a fantastic game and in the pantheon of best MM games. However, I would argue that the later MMX games disqualify it from being as good as/better than the core series. Beyond MMX3, they’re mostly middling to not good where as the later MM games are largely…

Given Du’s history with mental health issues, I hope his friends and family are with him and supporting him. Health and well-being always come first. Street Fighter will be there when he’s ready to come back.

Competition pushes down prices. These corporations have litigated and lobbied away any potential competition. Even Google, one of the largest companies in the world, have been all but stymied by the criminal levels of corruption that govern the broadband internet market.

No idea why this showed up in my “You Might Also Like” today but here we are almost ten years later and the fact that this all-time great video was leaked by Dan Ryckert, current Giant Bomb editor and Internet version of Forrest Gump, still makes me shakes my head in disbelief. We live in such a weird world.

Worked for Kobe.

Pleasure having this minimal effort relationship with you. See you the next time we largely agree about something. :)

Amusingly enough, I have friends from NJ that I keep up with as well (congratulations, fellow escapee!). I just do it by talking to/e-mailing/chatting with the ones who put in the effort to maintain a relationship. 90% of the people I thought were friends stopped speaking to me the second I started not showing up to…

I don’t see any upside personally. From what I gather, it’s a decent amount of stress and unnecessary work for no reward. Unless you think the dopamine rush of having someone from your carefully curated group of “friends” like or re-tweet your clever retort to a trending news item is some form of currency.

This has been my response to anyone asking me why I’m not on <insert social media platform flavor of the week> for the last decade.

Turkeys hooooo!

I’m just going to assume you misspelled “12" or are participating in some kind of meme that I’m not privy to.