Not so ironically; Through all my social media feeds I would estimate that 110% of “Free Johnny” and “Thank god Amber Heard got what was coming to her,” or really just about anything anti-Amber Heard, came from Female Sources.

I think the act/idea of breaking up with someone over gaming is no different than breaking up with something over anything else.

Mostly jokingly, but my wife will tell me I need to put my wife away and stop playing my stupid game, all while not looking up from her bubble popping game.

Hear me out, maybe we need to assess why people don’t take days off when they’re not feeling good, and the culture of work that surrounds it. I’m certainly guilty of “powering through” feeling sick - My review at work [school] was that I need to call out less often. . .I had used 6 of my allotted 10 days off the year…

I was disappointed to find that this wasn’t couch co-opable. My younger brother is staying with us for the next 3-4 weeks while he finishes up his vaccinations and waits for his Visa to go back overseas. Seemed like the perfect type of “sit on a couch and mindlessly kill shit” game.

I’m not disagreeing about it being gambling - I’m putting out that nobody is paying for it for their kid.

I mean - Not really? No one is paying $400,000 for these items to open and play with them. They’re paying for them out of nostalgia and collectors value. I don’t even think a billionaire would buy this box just to give it to their kid to open and play with.

I can have Gamepass and still use physical media to be able to resell games I wont replay, and that aren’t available through Gamepass. Friends and I do have some games that we share. . .But, we also have other types of games that only interest us [the one person]. . .Or games we’re all going to buy because it has…

I actually find it odd that you went with the discless drive as someone who really focuses on the “time versus money” aspect, unless of course you intend to use Gamepass as your only source/means of acquiring new games, which I guess is fine.

I think my take on the article was a little bit different - You see I though the same thing at first as well, until I kept reading. You see after first pointing out how “boring” we all are for wanting to create ourselves [which I get, we are who we are, but we also want to imagine ourselves as extraordinary], and it’s…

I think the problem with SWG and the open class systems is that it was designed as a Sandbox [and they did a great job], but didn’t really give us the tools to craft our own adventures. There were no real dungeons [Corvette and Geo coming later, and even those were soloable within days] and the only “big events” came…

SWG essentially ruined crafting for me in any game since. There is just no system so robust that I can even pretend to get involved with it in any meaningful way. That game was sure as shit years ahead of its time.

Give me Kirby’s Air Ride 2, or give me death!

I mean I could see this being a problem for upcoming games that are being concurrently being produced for both the ps4 and ps5. . .But why should Sony offer a FREE upgrade to something that they’ll need to go back and redo at their own cost?

14 years later and WoW is still printing money - I think Activision would be hard pressed to give up Blizzard IPs. In 20 years? Maybe they’ll not be as good/interesting but there is a lot of good will from the older days that people still trade in with their nostalgia when buying the new crap.

I don’t know if it’s the first game that disappointed me but years later in my 30s it’s the only one that stands out to me. . .Spore. I am still angry about Spore.

I guess I just don’t understand why your response is so hostile. I have no intention to buy/play the game at all. Never had. Never will. Has nothing to do with anything related to the game or the developers at all but i can sympathize with people who are really disappointed about something like this happening.

Contrary to popular belief you can have problems with two things while expressing more immediate feelings for the one that was most recently announced. Spider-Man being exclusive is a blow to people because he’s essentially the poster child for Marvel. Sure, the “original 4" movie Avengers are now prominent but…

I gotta say they really stepped up their game with the “jokes” for catching stuff  under water. 

I think a metric we need to look at is even though costs have gone up, aren’t more people buying those games on average versus earlier console generations? I know it’s a hard metric to figure out because when looking at the numbers for “most purchased console” I soon realized that the ps2 was reporting sales up until…