I’m with others in that I can’t say there are many boss fights I truly enjoyed outside that satisfaction of beating them. Typically I dread boss fights and find them stressful not enjoyable. 

The writers room has a wheel they spin for new ideas, but someone spilled grape juice on it in season three so the only legible idea left is fringe militant group kills without mercy because humans are the real threat. They let the fear the walking dead writers borrow it on weekends.

When I worked at McDonald’s in the late 90s we had a crispy chicken deluxe sandwich that came out when the arch deluxe did. It was pretty good, but the mayo was the same basic mayo as everything else. I’m not sure when that iteration was discontinued but it was decent. Looks similar to this, wonder is this a…

At work I often get included on email chains mid way through a lengthy discussion without much background. Recently trying to figure out what the hell was being asked of me reading the full email chain, someone was using the singular form of they to refer to a single person but it was unclear initially if they were…

Barenaked ladies? 

Is the ‘boys are back in town’ also a bit from something? I was in a bar on Christmas night about 5 years ago and a group of bros did this. Almost ended up with a fight breaking out when another group got annoyed. 

I definitely have been saying this seems more sophisticated and coordinated than just some viral buying trend. I’ve got the feeling that some of the WSB posters are former (or current) insiders or market makers with deep institional knowledge who know how to manipulate a stock but couldn't due to checks and balances…

This basically just a public boiler room scheme the same as the movie of the same name and wolf of wall street. Talk a bunch of rubes into running up a stock you bought cheap the sell and leave them holding the bag as it crashes. In this case it’s done under the guise of turning the tables on institutional money to…

I think the difference is this isn't as much running a group through a dungeon, but having them wait outside while you bring everything to them so they get a dungeon worth of xp without stepping foot inside. 

I first got into wow only 6 months after the official launch and already the world felt fairly picked over. Never once was I able to really experience things as new because every dungeon group I joined had always seemed to people on thier third alts who have run each dungeon a hundred times before. They’d know each…

Like I said I hate to use the term dumbed down because it evokes responses about toxic gamer culture which isn’t my goal. Maybe I should say over simplified to support the narrative at the cost of game play? While I personally liked the inventory management of the first mass effect, because for some sick reason I…

Also I hope someone from law enforcement followed up with that guy who took up Borats offer to name a price for his 15 year old daughter. The guys daughter, overhearing, calls him gross, makes a face like a kid would for a bad dad joke, then carries on with life as if her father didn’t just solicit a child in front of…

Funny you mention it, I also finally finished mass effect 3 during the first month of the lockdown. That game to me probably proves your point about playing it safe as I found it very linear and a step back from 1 & 2 which I very much enjoyed. When talking about cyberpunk commercials mass effect 3 is kind of the…

All really good, well informed points and I agree with you. Maybe I under estimate CDRs reach outside those of us who read game blogs and also watch football every week.

Right I’m not saying I haven’t seen game ads on TV during sports events. But as you said they do tend to be from major studios like EA or Sony for Playstation exclusives an sequels to big well established franchises which can recoup the ad costs.

Yeah I would never tell someone that thier setup looks like bad. I’m sure I probably said it looks amazing which is probably what everyone says and why he keeps it on. He probably hates the soap opera look but people keep telling him his TV looks great so he won’t touch it.

I definitely spend too much time on the internet, but most of what I see for this game is TV ads during football games which is odd for a game who’s pedigree is the Witcher series. I don’t recall seeing Witcher 3 commercials during the steelers game. The red flag to me on the overhype scale is the frequency of these…

I’ll admit I’m probably proof their fears are not unfounded. I only go to the movies because of the exclusive first run nature of the business. If I could watch it at home day one I would probably not go to the theater ever. Since the advent of smart phones I’ve found the theater going experience frustrating more…

Lol What? My TV is basically on the default setting, I’m color blind and can’t fine tune shit for video. But I did turn off the motion smoothing that makes shit look like a soap opera, it's literally a single setting that’s all we’re talking about here jagoff. I'm sorry you can't find a partner, you seem like a nice…

I’m also a developer, about 5 years ago I started getting terrible migraines about twice a month which I associated with getting old and looking at a screen all day. Since working from because of covid for 9 months I have not had a single migraine. I’ve come to realize it was the flouresant lights causing my…