Definitely. The two party system in the US is good evidence of this.

Agreed. Misinformation as a political tactic, in particular, needs to go.

That’s a pretty good summary of the federal political landscape. As has been said, it’s hard to unconditionally support any of these parties.

Yeah, I am too far left to have ever voted for them, but the old PC would at least be a palatable governing party. I know several reasonable modern conservatives who are pissed about what happened. While uniting the right certainly gives them a better shot at winning elections, the trend of the current conservative…

Welcome to modern conservatism. It has no principles or ideals!!

Damn, that’s a great track too!

Man, that is a good song! I’m gonna check out some more of their stuff.

That YYYs album rules, as most of their stuff does. I’ve been listening to quite a bit of their stuff lately too.

Our provincial government finally issued an order last week requiring masks in all indoor public places and shutting down a bunch of different activities (indoor exercise classes, etc.). It’s about time. IMO they they should’ve shut down more stuff (restaurants are still open, though they’re all operating at severely…

This is exactly what I was going to say. That sort of electronic sounding/vocorder voice has been running through my head for the past week.

Yeah, I mostly agree with that, except I do not care for the the overly-cluttered, UbiSoft-style world map. As I’ve said before, I tend to get overwhelmed and anxious when confronted with those maps, and my response is often to just bail on the game. I’m fine if you can discover those things as you explore the world (S…

One of the great things about Odyssey for me, is that it encouraged you to explore the levels to find all the hidden stuff in a way that somehow made me want to do it, but didn’t really force me to. Does that make sense? Like, I found myself 100%-ing some levels and then others I would complete, beat the boss and then…

Bloodborne is worth finishing. That game is incredibly cool. The DLC is also great, but tough. Some awesome boss fights.

My “year of the backlog” is being interrupted for Demon’s Souls because it’s fun to have an actual PS5 game, even if it’s actually a PS3 game. I finally finished Horizon Zero Dawn earlier this week, so I haven’t got very far yet, but so far so good. Managed to take down the Tower Knight last night before bed. It’s…

I also had my mind blown by Astro’s Playroom. Some of the things they can do with that controller are wild. And I just finished HZD on my PS5 the other evening, so I thought I’d pop in to say: it’s good! I recommend it.

Well said. And I’m glad you touched on those granular difficulty controls that are (finally) starting to become more common. For all it’s shortcomings, TLOU2 had great difficulty options. I haven’t played it, but IIRC Jedi: Fallen Order had souls-like combat and allowed you to adjust the parry window. I imagine a…

This is my take on it too. It would be awkward for BluePoint to make the call to add an easy mode to a FromSoft game, and probably overstepping their bounds.

That is a very wise recommendation and I’ll look into that. There are many, many electronic devices in that general area that would probably benefit from a UPS.

I am FINALLY almost at the end of Horizon Zero Dawn after some pretty substantial couch time over the weekend. Good game, but as is my complaint with almost all modern games, it’s probably too long. I also left a fairly early story mission for a loooong time because it was WAY at the far end of the map and I kept…

To throw my anecdotal evidence into the ring: my PS5 has been performing flawlessly. Extended storage has been connected the whole time. I’ve only played 4 or 5 games and none of the ones that seem to be causing problems. The only time there was any issue at all was when the power in my house when out for about 5…