It doesn’t make you a bad person. I just didn’t expect to run out of popcorn so early into this shitshow.

I don’t think that view is as controversial anymore. I agree with you for the most part. I just don’t enjoy the act of playing his games. I find the controls usually awkward and I prefer shorter cutscenes. I think his fourth wall breaking stuff (like the Psycho Mantis memory card thing) is gimmicky. If his games were…

Thanks to Fortnite’s various lawsuits about this people got more of a glimpse into dance move v. choreography and this is definitely way more of the latter I’d think. I mean, quick court settlement where the company that puts this out with a face saving statement of “our animators took inspiration from Melochin…

Huh. So this is what it feels like to wake up to good news? I... I had forgotten what this felt like. It’s nice! 

I mean, the demons don’t respawn and there is no mention of actually moving forward. Just have to survive a room then tuck in for a month. Given the choice of surviving a month in the hellscape we’ve made of things on earth or surviving a month of actual hell on Mars... I’m taking the 10K. And some Milton. 

My immediate reactions while scrolling through this: that ASL guy is genuinely dope and I kind of want to hug him but also give him my Christmas list; if Stadia actually works (and works like a high end PC) I’m buying RDR2 again; the solitude experiment seems like a no brainer for anyone who makes less than 120K/yr…

I have imports of Jet Set Radio and Ikaruga that I use as coasters since my Dreamcast died. I should probably clean them up. For money! I mean history. Sorry, I meant for history. 

As a Twins guy, yeah. This is always correct.

Hating Blizzard is like... 72 hours ago. I’m into hating Lebron now. Gotta keep up with the hate train bro!

I definitely think it should be approached with skepticism and what you’ve written as a response is reasoned and thoughtful. Perhaps it is just poor wording on the internet’s part that makes me think people are actively willing this thing to fail but even the top response to this article is the blunt “will fail by…

The preservation and consumer rights stuff is interesting here. It’s obviously a concern but I wonder if this kind of thing is going to be the impetus to new legislation regarding digital ownership. Tragically (at least in the US), changes to what it means to own a digital game likely won’t happen until something high…

I’m not quite as excited as you are but I pre-ordered too. All reports I read/heard on podcasts about that AC:Odyssey test were pretty darn positive and I don’t have data caps where I live. If this thing works like we hope I’ll almost certainly be playing Cyberpunk on this instead of my OG PS4. It’s easy to see how…

I like to think that the mouths are carved as prep for when another inanimate object inevitably gets possessed in this universe. Like... Bjork is just out there carving backup singers or something waiting for the ghost of (probably a lost child) to start singing eerie songs. So these ones curse you, bummer, but it’s…

Not much apparently. The Mulan actress said something supporting the police during the protests and, while it made headlines, I haven’t heard of any action taken by Disney: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/08/mulan-boycott-liu-yifei-hong-kong-protests-police. May have missed follow up articles but I don’t…

I think it depends on what kinds of games you play? The AAA space has definitely moved away from it but the indie realm seems to have over course-corrected towards local only. Enter the Gungeon, Wizard of Legend, and tons of other smaller games don’t have online co-op and it kills me. 

Holy moly you’re a saint. I’m going to try that with Wizard of Legend tonight!

Wait, how?! I’ve wanted to play Enter the Gungeon with my best friend on the east coast for ages. 

I said it in another response but this just sounds like GGPO’s rollback netcode which, honestly, is dope. It assumes inputs and if you don’t actually hit them it rolls back to the last correct state. Calling it “negative latency” is super dumb and Stadia is easy to dunk on but Ian Walker, the author of this article,…

If it’s actually hitting the buttons that seems real bad. My read on this is that predictive input isn’t actually hitting the button, it’s just putting the command in a queue server side and waiting for your actual input before it executes. GGPO does this in fighting games and is considered by many to be a very, very…

I’d also like to shoutout The Old Hunters for Bloodborne and the AC: Odyssey Atlantis stuff when it comes to good DLC. It’s interesting you’d mention Witcher 3’s only because, while I own them and hear nothing but high praise, I still haven’t played them. The end of that game burned me out. It’s a good actual end but…