I remember reading the first edition DMG at the age of about 6-7 and coming across the “Harlot Subtable” and concluding, naturally, that a “trull” and a “trollop” are obviously different kinds of trolls, a “streetwalker” was some sort of urban predator, a “saucy tart” was like a street vendor selling pies, a “doxy”…

Unless I missed it, they still haven’t added the ability to block, ignore, or otherwise filter out curators who don’t provide information that the user has deemed useful. I know I would be happy if I never had to see“[Foo] Police”, “Waifu Hunter”, or any of a few gross recidivist nerd icons on Steam ever again.

I feel like the American Experiment has failed. There has never been before as large an electoral gap between every category of people in this country. Urban vs. the Rural, Educated vs. Not, Men vs. Women, Whites vs. PoC, etc.

Realistically either I will be so convinced that I must play this game at the earliest opportunity I don’t even care about reviews, or I’m going to bide my time and read as many opinions that I trust on it that I can and pick it up later when it’s on sale. If I’m content to wait 6-24 months to experience the game, I…

Caring about framerate, resolution, anti-aliasing, and all of those purely mathematical things.

I really wish Steam would take “curation” upon themselves so we didn’t have to rely on various internet mobs to fight it out among themselves.

The problem I have with replaying a lot of these games with choices is that if I know which choice has the best outcome, it’s kind of hard to make the other one. Choices in the first two Mass Effects are actually broken down into numeric values by the third one so you can know, in advance, which is most conducive to…

Well, he’s been a kickstarter stretch goal before, so that might be what is happening here. If it’s a “raise enough money and we’ll hire the writer you all want” then they can’t announce it before the campaign goes live.

“from the celebrated writers of Torment: Tides of Numenera”

I mean, even if his story checks out there’s no way I can forgive “giving money to a shitposting group”.

Well, Luckey is already part of a lawsuit by ZeniMax that insinuates that Oculus stole proprietary code from ZeniMax in order to develop the Rift, and “Facebook elects to cover themselves by throwing Luckey under the proverbial bus” isn’t even that improbable of a legal strategy.

This seems like a really light holiday season for games for me. Only things that strike me as an immediate “buy close to launch” are Dishonored 2 and Civ VI (and like all Civs, VI will likely take an expansion or two to hit its stride.)

The solution to this is similar to the solution to most of the problems with Steam: More human-driven moderation, less crowdsourcing or automation.

I did it one year on a lark, and some of the kids got really excited to pull a Twinkie (or hostess cupcake) out of the bowl so I keep putting Twinkies in there among the other options, in hopes of recapturing that bit of Halloween magic.

Would you believe I originally wrote “pickles” there and changed it to “twinkies” on a wrong edit? Fried pickles are great, fried twinkies are not.

I had a deep fried twinkie at the State Fair back in 2002, and I haven’t really wanted to have another one since. Nothing wrong with the humble twinkie (I give them out on Halloween sometimes), but I don’t think it’s a thing that’s improved by cooking it. All I could think when eating the deep fried twinkie was “I…

Cool. I still play Duck Hunt in 480i sometimes.

I don’t have a PS4 or an Xbox One, but am I alone in thinking that the base models offer a more compelling value proposition than the spiffier ones? Things like VR, 4K, and HDR just aren’t things I can bring myself to care about. The people who are liable to be convinced by the promise of technology probably already…

This is basically a question of “do older titles get 4k patches or not” since if a game came out close to the PS4's launch window, it’s not like “now you can play in 4k” is going to get people to go back and buy copies of FIFA 15, Battlefield 4, or Knack. So I doubt you’re going to take anything out of the vault to…

It sort of feels like Sony is judging the “I’m going to buy a new GPU because I can’t run the latest game on Ultra” folks by the volume of their online commentary not their actual numbers (I buy a new GPU mostly when I can’t play the latest game at all.)