It might have helped that launches are kinda sparse so they wouldn’t have had too much competition on the PS5. However, you’re right, it’s too still hard/expensive to get one atm and there’s really no point in buying one until the prices go down or more games come out to justify it. 

I actually watch vods more than streams so this would make me sad. The thing I don’t get is that muting the audio seemed to be a perfectly fine solution to dealing with this. It was annoying but people who liked to play a lot of music on their streams would usually compensate for it somewhat by running music during…

Nah. Working a dead end job doesn’t make you like this. Everyone’s got to make money to eat and you take what you can get sometimes. This is just more greed fueled idiocy from trend chasers hoping to make some easy money. 

To be fair most scary games get less scary once you figure out how they work. They only really need to work the first time.

I think you’re right about the scripting though. Scripted sequences can be really great if you flag them the right way but it’s so easy for a player to break them and ruin the scene. I remember…

Cities Skylines is kinda funny. 95% of your problems always seem to end up being caused by roads/traffic. I don’t know how to fix this, it just always happens and then I get annoyed and flood the city and start over :p

benefit of a podcast: you can listen to them at work

I love reading but audiobooks/podcasts have made work so much more tolerable for me. It’s not always an option for everybody but if you work nights I highly recommend it. Just grab some earbuds, load up your phone or mp3 player, and work is almost fun.

Yeah. I still love the old ass computers in Alien because the aesthetic works for me, even though it’s still silly. The existence of cellphones makes a lot of old movies kinda fun too, thinking of all the ways they break the plot. Remember when people would cut the phone lines in a horror movie? Computers do it too…

The novel is really fun. There’s a lot of...speculative tech that probably doesn’t hold up but it’s a good pulpy kind of read. Movie is way more silly but I still kinda like it. Hell I’ll watch anything with Tim Curry in it.

We should just eliminate all verbal/text chat from all competitive gaming. People who want to talk to their teams already do it through other programs and something about competition brings out the worst in some people. There have been a lot of games recently who do things like Apex and let you ping and stuff to talk…

Meanwhile I can’t see her as anything other than Elaine. This is going to take some getting used to. 

Kole was just kinda whatever. I think the real issue with this movie is it’s editing/pacing. Everything is too rushed. It’s definitely a movie that expects you to know about it’s source material (movie barely explains Outworld for example) but with all the stuff they cram in there’s not enough time to let things…

backlogs are weird. I dumped Witcher 2 and Xcom 2 because they ran like crap on my pc. But even after I upgraded it felt like the moment had passed. I got Assassin’s Creed 3 for free when I got my old videocard and apart from booting it up to see how well it ran I never played it and probably never will.

Nothing in this game really got me until the very end. **Spoilers I guess.** Not that it isn’t sad. This is a very...I guess bittersweet kinda game. But something about the fact that your cat goes with you through the door at the end really got to me. I’ve lost pets before but the ending of this game framed the way it…

I’m tempted. I still had to settle things with the dog and owl but at the time I had momentum from the story that made me go to the ending. Thsi might give me an excuse to go back and finish up those loose ends.

Beautiful game.  

The variety of games was a big part of why I liked the Dread X stuff so when you said this one was all shooters I felt kinda disappointed. But you kinda sold me, these seem like the right kind of quirky and it makes me curious what else ended up in this collection.

That’s pretty obvious.

Alt-itis isn’t a problem. It just means you’re having fun and want to do all of the things. Nothing wrong with that.

The only thing that could get me back into magic again at this point is a return to Kamigawa. I haven’t read too much of the mtg book stuff but I used to like the weatherlight stuff and Ravinca and Kamigawa were both pretty cool. 

Did people not like Samus Returns? Two of my friends are big Metroid guys and they thought it was pretty fun. I’ve never been that into the series but I don’t remember it being received badly. A lazy google search finds Polygon’s review gave it a 9 and on similar sites and metacritic it’s around 8-10 or 85% depending…

this guy gets it.