It lets you speak scripted commands to swap weapons, taunt zombies, and engage extra-powerful Fury Mode, among other things, by using a microphone and your Amazon account.

I generally agree with you, but what about this system is related to deck building besides the superficial use of “cards” to symbolize what is essentially just a list of collectible perks? The game is an RPG. It feels like you’re dismissing an RPG element just because it communicates the element through cards. 

Back in Totilo’s golden age, he put up a post saying that he was interviewing the developers at Rocksteady and wanted to know if readers had any questions. This was just before Arkham City’s release and I told him to ask how they were going to improve boss fights. Stephen responded and said that the developers laughed…

There’s a lot of people on the autism spectrum in the speedrunning community. The rigidity and predictability of just trying and trying at the same thing is something a lot of those people crave as a means to deal with other shit that’s going on.

Gajillion views, a Kotaku article and the epic highs and low of gittin gud? I don’t know honestly. It just seems silly at this point.

I feel like people put as much work into spamming Dark Souls as I put into my PhD. Which, I feel like I actually learned something from that process (about science, life, etc)- I love Dark souls, but I’m not sure what you gain from this at the end of the day.

I can still remember waiting to get the July issues of EGM, Next Generation, Nintendo Power, etc in the mail to learn all about major E3 announcements. Yes I’m old.

Even if this does go to the Supreme Court, that’s a year or two down the line.

Probably. FWIW, tradeshows and the like have always been kinda fun to walk around once in a while. You get to see some new stuff, give it a little whirl, and see lots of weird ideas come out of the woodwork too. That said, they’re still a basically a giant advertisement.

Like wtf did these fascists think they were going to do on the board, approve scripts? Cancel shows, movies and casting direction? Like seriously what power did they even think they were going to have?

The GOP is playing an old game in a world. This is the Big Tech world of Millennial, Gen Z, Social Media, LGBTQ world and the GOP is still selling Christianity, Bigotry and Reagan era policies to the minority voters in the south. That’s why there was no red wave. You’d think they would have changed their strategy by…

Fuck, are we now going to have to be nostalgic about corporate marketing events?!?

Please note this post is an adaptation of this much cleaner tweet:

I mean at multiple points it goes out of his way to show him executing people who had surrendered,

Really? Game Joel was running through that hospital throwing molotovs, burning people alive, dousing hallways in flamethrowers, blowing people to bits with fuckin’ nail bombs, beating the shit out of everyone with a baseball bate with scissors and knives taped to it, shooting corpses repeatedly just to see the ragodol…

Gonna be honest, this is a pretty wild read that makes me think the division caused by the ending will not be mitigated at all. Because to me, I was thinking during the finale: “Wow Joel comes off even worse here than in the game.” Especially because the show, for the most part, has avoided Joel being depicted as a…

You think that publishers are going to keep paying people to make the art if they can pay one person to run a few different AI’s to do it all?

Less-labor intensive? The purpose isn’t to make art easier, it’s to steal their work altogether and push them away - which they are already doing. Making their labor obsolete is just another pro-corporate convenience.

Yeh as we all know, if you stop reading the media outlets and listen to the *players* and their experiences you realise this was overblown by the media.

Get over yourself Luke. Stop beating a dead horse. “Disastrous Launch” ? Or did all the gaming news companies all jump on the same bandwagon?