I like to think that Booster and Wario are cousins/siblings... Wario being the black sheep who left the royal line behind to focus on his capitalist dreams. 

I think that’s a fair point about why CD Projekt Red wasn’t set up to have an easy time with it, but I still feel like “ambitious by any standard” vastly oversells the complexity of what Cyberpunk was setting out to do.

“Cyberpunk 2077 was an ambitious project by any standard. CD Projekt’s previous success, The Witcher, was set in a medieval fantasy world full of swords and spells. But everything in Cyberpunk was a departure from that framework. Cyberpunk was sci-fi rather than fantasy. Instead of a third-person camera in which the…

I don’t know that it implies anything more than a new plan that coincided with a new market study. If you can sell X of your last gen models and Y of your new ones, or X+Z of your last gen models without reducing Y new ones... why wouldn’t you do that? Especially if it fits into a plan of phasing out console…

I don’t think it boggles the mind, when you realize it’s probably working as intended by getting older console generations moving off the shelf, and then more likely hitting the resale market to fund a second corrected purchase, rather than returned. If Microsoft can sell 2 (or 1.5, or 1.2, or whatever) consoles…

That’s the tricky point about prison reform: you have to keep it fixed in your head that reform shouldn’t be doled out when and where your compassion lands, but broadly, uniformly, rationally. Solitary is in humane, you know that. That doesn’t change when the guy in there is a dick. 

Not sure what procedures were gone through to collect signatories, but it’s remarkable how much better received these things can be when you go through a couple extra steps to publish something as a draft and solicit consultation from regions, and then finalize it with signatories AFTER there’s been feedback. Hand…

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I’m not sure we want to set the precedent of armed agents just “volunteering” to deploy and interact with civilians without a proper direction from their agencies. Yes, in this particular circumstance we all wish these particular shitheads got shut down before they breached the capitol, by any means necessary... but…

I would personally love to speak to the public health experts who are in support of patients making unnecessary visits to medical facilities during a global pandemic solely to pick up a pill that’s typically taken at home

The Super Mario Kart jumping feather stands out as the most transformative jump in gaming for me. Every time you get a feather, it fundamentally transforms the way that you can interact with your track. Finding jumping shortcuts by trial and error is a core memory from my pre-internet days when you could realistically…

The... excess of that concept art at top is precisely why I could never get into WoW. It is just so.... tacky.

What’s the difference between how Game Pass feels and PS Now (which looks like it’s $10 cheaper)? And, with PS 5, doesn’t PS+ also give you a library of streamable games too? 

Possession of an explosive is a Class B felony in Tennessee under Tennessee Code 39-17-1302. A person provided a direct eyewitness report to law enforcement that her boyfriend possessed explosives, including where they were stored. Tennessee Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 provides a magistrate the authority to issue a…

I dunno, I worry that quantifying the amount of my life I spend on video games (especially, video games that I don’t particularly enjoy) would end with me staring deep into a yawning abyss of self loathing and regret. 

Both the articles that Kotaku wrote about Plague Tale were positive, but I keep overlooking it during sales... it just seems like it revolves so heavily around a single puzzle mechanic (controlling rat movement with light), that I don’t see how it can really hope to keep up the intensity and drama? Puzzles aren’t…

I picked RDR2 up after a one month hiatus the first time I put it aside, promptly sprinted my horse through town accidentally(the unique white one), bumped a pedestrian, and was murdered by sheriff (horse included). Game auto saved after my horse died, best horse in game gone forever. Ive never uninstalled with less…

I don’t have a problem starting games, I have a problem finishing them. FE 3 Houses, FFXV, FFVII: Remake, AC Valhalla, RDR2... all the sort of thing where picking things back up with a months or years old save game can be a challenge, but restarting will see me fizzling out as soon or sooner than before.

I blasted your “impressions” article a bit, because I felt like it was a rambling mash of disjointed (and conflicting) observations. But this review, I agree 100%. It’s not the worst game ever made, bugs and performance can and will be patched eventually, but the game just sort of... hands you some ideas and systems,…

Native American identity isn’t a monolithic thing: we’re talking about hundreds of unique cultures, history, and sovereign Tribes, and not all of them view identity the same. In general, however, identification with a particular Tribe flows from enrollment as a Tribal member/citizen of that Tribe, not a 23andMe blood…