I suppose that’s why I was hearing ads for it on podcasts that were entirely unrelated to video games (notably HDTGM.)

Yeah, it’s nearly impossible for the show to be more of a deviation from “the essential nature of Fallout” than what Bethesda did with the franchise.

Like the thing about Fallout specifically is that “pleasing the fans” depends a lot on “which fans”. A whole lot of people like Fallout and their entry to the series was Fallout 3. A smaller, but no less vocal, proportion of Fallout fans *hate* Fallout 3 and have only softened on it because they hate Fallout 4 more.

“Former Transportation Secretary passes away in automobile accident exacerbated by multiple questionable design choices” is some truly on-the-nose irony.

The savory pies being take-and-bake fits with Crumbl’s sweet ethos- those cookies also come to you seriously underbaked.

Like the big difference between Harry Potter and the rest of “stories intended for a younger audience repackaged for older fans who refuse to let go of it” is that the author of Harry Potter became the spokesperson for a hate movement.  Like Walt Disney was chummy with some prominent Nazis, but he didn’t regularly…

I think a lot of people just misunderstand that how video game RPGs have in their DNA tabletop RPGs (many the devs for the former have played a lot of the latter) and in TTRPGs “choice” is often fake in the following sense. Like if the party gets the choice of “where to spend the night” between like the seedy inn, the…

I still maintain that the original ending was great, but the extended cut was terrible and basically ruined it. Like the whole “I choose not to choose, thereby killing all sapient life i the galaxy” ending was the stupidest thing in the entire franchise. Like the intention was never “you can make Shepherd into any…

See also “blockchain”. Like there were people running ads during football games about how your tomatoes are now on the blockchain, as though this is anything anybody would care about.  Tech people are always going to be pushing tech solutions, sometimes to problems that don't even exist.

Teaching a computer to understand all spoken english across all accents, regional dialects, and linguistic idiosyncrasies is basically an intractable problem. The advantage of having an actual human take your order is that their understanding of language is probably similar to yours if you’re both from the same place.

This is only acceptable if some of the time the food is less expensive than it would be normally.  Like I could see “reducing the price of some item for quick sale” on some level.

Eventually, we will always return to “inedible garnish is gauche.”

Right, like it feels like the job for a Hollywood Agent is “negotiate contracts for you” because they know about contracts and negotiation. Their job is not “pick opportunities” since their expertise is not art, or comedy, or things other than “negotiations and contracts.”

I think it’s just as simple as chocolate chip is similar enough to a lot of other flavors that are more beloved. Like Cookies & Cream and Cookie Dough Ice cream also have the same “Vanilla + Chocolate” thing going on and have better flavor. If the texture of chocolate chip shards is what you’re after, many people…

Or just remaster New Vegas, please.

I think a real problem people had with Verhoeven is that he was seen as an outsider as he was clearly not an American. Verhoeven again and again was going over the basis of fascism is that “people who are trying to claim power will tell you lies until you give them that power, and then you’re disposable.” But people…

Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment are both very good games and people should play them if they haven’t had the opportunity to before.  Can’t say anything about Sea of Thieves or Grounded since they’re not really my thing.

Putting things like Hi-Fi Rush and Penitent on other platforms makes sense and is good precedent. These sorts of things are good games that deserve a wider audience and you’re likely to make more more money by “selling more copies” to people who don’t have an Xbox than you are by selling Xboxes to people who want to…

Since a lot of this comes from video games in the RPG genre, I think this basically models how it works in the tabletop space.  If I have a specific idea about an NPC’s sexual orientation and this is going to relate to their story, then that’s how the NPC is going to be regardless.  But most of the time I don’t have a…

I was recently playing the Guardians of the Galaxy game from 2021, and while it was a pretty good game the biggest problem with it was the number of times you’re left wondering “okay, where do I go next” after the dialogue ends, and the answer was generally “if you turn the camera in a specific direction you can find…