I’m playing through Frozen Wilds first, as I never managed to before, but reading this over--I kind of wish the Focus wasn’t so useful? I’m probably pretty completionist and not get rid of all the HUD kinda guy, but ever since the Arkham games anything with this mechanic of super-useful overlay that you’ll use all the…

I had half a second when I thought, maybe Cheetos are the answer? Maybe the butterflies can eat that? I thoroughly enjoyed the show, but I do wish there was a note of acknowledging the cow was just a cow then, and that the fight enacts a genocide instead of a rapid extinction—bad butterflies or no. The cow is also an…

Yeah, I know what nudes are. It was a joke.

This is just a callback to the romance cards in Witcher 1.

Well, I said I wasn’t respond, but it looks like I am. The “white” in supremacy is a descriptor—that’s the tip of the hierarchy. And yes, it tells you who historically, hierarchal, socially, and institutionally has the most power. It doesn’t absolve any criminal any more than indicts all white people.

I’m finding the responses here on the whole depressing, at best arguing the particulars and semantics and not grappling with the whole of the moment. And I will say that those comments have a role in sharpening the tools to discuss this, but really, at this moment of fear and grieving—a continuing moment and not a new…

I thought peacemaker running away after the grenade had all the helmets, then figures out they are being tracked and dumps them. I assumed Vigilante found them and thought they were accidentally dropped. A little lazy, but I don’t mind it.

Was that the woman who covered for him? I think they flirted, but the woman with him and Vigilante was someone else.

Do I take this roundup as a referendum on the Olympics, at least on a site level? As a non-watcher myself, I don’t know otherwise how interested people are.

I would guess that this one making news has to do with the fact that as of the end of last year, she decided that every one of her donations shouldn’t be public. You can look up her statements as to why if you like.

Drive My Car is absolutely beloved in my corner—I didn’t see it since I didn’t like Hamaguchi’s Asako I & II and watching it now would feel like homework—but it’s had consistent buzz.

Huh. There’s definitely a “doth protest too much” feel to this topic, and it’s mostly in the defensive comments.

Well, she’s not an Oscar winner for the Eternals.

I’ve been seeing “rogue-like” applied to the game, but to my understanding the levels don’t change, so what’s the rogue-like element to it? The repeated run progression?

I watched the IGN review of the game, and in that the reviewer talked about the emphasis of the game on learning the counters and parries opening up the combat options more so than the unlocking more attacks necessarily might. In that vein, I think that’s what Hughes is saying when talking about Sifu’s defensive…

Oh, they made Absolver! A very cool looking game that was also well past my personal threshold of learning that I passed on. I uh...am also passing on Sifu for a while because I should limit purchasing a new game I probably won’t finish to once in a while, and I’m opting for Horizon Zero Dawn.

Hmm...I think some additional reasons are from stuff you mentioned too, like he’s a he. And I think he’s a better comedian than she is. But I wonder if it’s also a case of we hear the complaints Black people more than other groups in the US. Are the complaints of Middle-Eastern or Desi folks going to be heard in the…

I’m not cosigning all Trevor Noah’s opinions when I say I like a lot of what he’s said at times—it somehow feels necessary to declare this before I begin—and as an immigrant, I imagine a lot of it comes from his not being American, that has given the experience to see American exceptionalism and debating style that is…

I wouldn’t take Google Stadia’s demotion as much of a signal about the overall viability of game-streaming. It didn’t become a breakout news story, but Amazon, MS, and even Sony all had subscriber increases the past two years.

I enjoyed this episode, but it felt a bit rushed at times in it’s setting up of the rest. Turning so many reveals into “duh, we already know” sapped some of it, and even some quips felt smaller for it.