Crunch doesn’t work (in any industry) because people who are stressed, unhappy, etc. make more mistakes than people who are generally just gruntled.  It generally takes more time to fix the mistakes from people who are crunching than the extra time crunching creates.

Certainly not any time soon. To me “a game from the Witcher people, but with guns and cars!” is less appealing than “a game from the Witcher people, but without guns”. I like the Sapkowski books the Witcher was based on a lot more than the R. Talsorian games TTRPG that Cyberpunk is based on. I’m also pretty…

It’s really kind of amusing how many games have “the DLC was the best part” considering the amount of people who decried the very concept of DLC.  The cries of “they should have just made it part of the game” coming from probably the same people who get apoplectic when a game is delayed.

Anybody paying for this is a sucker.  If Mayweather is boxing anybody the most probable outcome is “Mayweather boxes defensively and wins on points.”  People who want to see Logan Paul get his ass beat are going to have to find a different fight.

You can’t put something in your work of fiction without saying something about it. “This exists” is a thing and “the context in which the thing is presented” is another thing that you end up saying after that. If you’re going to have a “Haitian Gang” or “a trans woman in a prominent diagetic advertising campaign” it’s…

My conclusions are more of the form:
- It’s ultimately just a video game
-Crunch doesn’t work

People sort of forget how much better the Witcher 3 was like six months and a whole lot of patches after release compared to “at release”. I figure it’s much the same with Cyberpunk, but the hype train got out of control on this one.

I’m just annoyed that the default is “ham and pineapple” rather than the superior “ham, pineapple, and hot peppers”.  Spice massively improves the hawaiian pizza, and like “jalapeños blanketed in melted cheese” are a better option than “post-oven crushed red pepper flakes.”

It generally feels that even with a bankable studio and genre, “a new game IP” is always going to be suspect enough to take a “wait and see” approach.  Like I’m not going to lose anything if I wait 6 months to play this game, even if it’s the greatest game ever made.

Whenever I do the “turn the slider down until the logo is barely visible” I end up with a game that is *way* too dark.  So I have to turn up the brightness like 4-5 clicks above that.

If they had done them “full-card art” like the Un-set basic lands, this would be a must-buy. Still, if you don’t have those (which are like $8/per now) and you have a minimal need for basic lands, and you want to show off... this is pretty cool.

The taco pizza from Casey’s General Store remains one of my all-time favorite pizzas (Iowa gas station pizza is legit, y’all).  Sadly I no longer live particularly close to one.

“More money for rarer kinds of beef, not cooked rare mind you because that would be microbiologically problematic” is perhaps an even less fun game.

I mean, if you give me ~$100 and say “go have dinner” the one thing I am absolutely not going to order is “an expensive hamburger.” The $100 burger is not 10x better than a $10 burger. The things at fine dining restaurants that command those price tags, and are arguably worth it, are *not* hamburgers. Like world class…

Tequila doesn’t really work in eggnog.  Even the Mexican style of the same drink (Rompope) uses rum.  If you wanted to have tequila based nog, you really need to spring for a quality añejo instead of the blanco or reposado, which I doubt is going on here.

The “if you want to make it more expensive- add more truffles” game isn’t very fun.

I really have no idea where I would get suet, short of killing a ruminant myself, which I am disinclined to do for dessert.

Zach Snyder has never made a movie or a television show that I liked (disclosure: I’ve never seen the Dawn of the Dead remake; perhaps it’s great), unlike Joss Whedon. But Whedon appears to be a creep, and Snyder seems relatively normal for someone in his position.

I drink water as a nervous habit.  I have a 1 litre nalgene bottle that I fill up, drain, and fill up repeatedly throughout the day.  So I generally drink between 1.5 and 6 gallons of water per day, depending on the weather and the news.

Please release a SKU that has the guts of the series S (I do not care about 4k or 120fps) but has an optical drive (I want to be able to play my old games that I have on disc.)