Agreed, the SteamDB chart for this game looks identical to the chart for the Dead Space remake, or Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, or Atomic Heart, or the Resident Evil 4 remake, all released early in 2023. It’s the standard pattern for non-live service or major multiplayer releases. (Even if a couple of those games I…

It’s a single player RPG, and like the headline says it’s been 6 months after release with several high profile games that have launched in the interim and soaked up the limelight.

The article calls it mustard gas because the “author” “Kyle Barr” is really an AI writing about another AI, and taking real jobs away from incompetent Giz writers.

My chemistry degree demands I be pedantic about this: chlorine gas (Cl2) and mustard gas (most commonly ClC2H4SC2H4CL) are not the same thing and mixing bleach with ammonia makes neither. It makes chloramine gas (NH2Cl) which is another compound which you don’t want to breath.

used to preach about treating COVID-19 with horse medicine

Exactly. I’m on Twitter (X?) because I’ve found a very specific niche of people I like to see content from. I logged into Threads on the day it launched, and all I found were stupid brands trying to copy 2015 Wendy’s Twitter, and stupid celebrities I don’t care about.

The problem is not just the lack of features, it’s that Meta is ACTIVELY trying to avoid the things that made people like Twitter in the pre-Elon days. They’re consciously trying to dissuade it from being a place where people share political or news-oriented content. They’ve stated as much. They introduced a…

Trademarks don’t expire as long as you defend them, it’s copyrights that have a limit.

Um, no one watches the show because it hasn't aired yet.

Looks like it uses the same animation style as the recent Micky Mouse cartoons. Makes me wish I had a Switch.

I’m always put off by a review that immediately swerves to their race gripes before anything else.

“George, bubby, we here at Max are just not really into the whole ‘epic fantasy drama’ thing right now... what do you have in the way of of flipping houses, or gawking at people who want to get married for a green card? Bonus points if you can find someone with an interesting physical or mental defect!”

I think it is poor form to be influenced by the opinions of the likes of Ted Cruz, etc., even it is inverse-influence. You’re still in their orbit of thought.

Watching a film because you disagree with how someone else took the viewing experience it is the cinematic equivalent of downloading a mobile game because you watched the player in the ad struggle with it.

The Barbie movie was fun at first, but by the third act I realized it was just another examination of the heterosexual paradigm. Zzzzzz.

I mean, reviews for years now have devolved due to an significant imbalance of subjectivity over objectivity, but I still find it perversely thrilling when a “review” so gloriously showcases all the issues and shortcomings of the writer as ones like this do. Doesn’t anyone bother considering “hmmm, is this more about…

Yeah, if you believe that you’re part of the problem. 

Didn't crowdfunded murder clown movie Terrifier 2 do something vaguely similar to $15 million at least?

It’s kind of the same reason movies produced to pander to the Evangelical Christian community are usually so terrible: They function as affirmation rather than art. The politics/preaching have to be front and center, and their foundations can never be examined, let alone questioned. Especially with movies, it’s very…

The old life hacker tips I miss 👍🏼