I’m not really one for these kinds of arguments. They assume status quo as an immutable baseline, when we know that A) these companies have spent the better part of the last few decades stacking things in their favor, and B) continue to do so.

This is always the kind of thing that scares me. Not being banned for selling something like that — it seems like a stupid idea no matter which way you look at it. But the amount of control these companies have over your games is ridiculous, and you never quite know when you’re doing something you may get banned for…

AOC comes equipped with that smoke. Jagmeet slings beard on the clean-shaven mayonnaise men of Canada’s establishment. Purveyors of political principles clash tomorrow night, 7pm EST. The Ruckus in Among Us.

This is very wholesome. I, on the other hand, invited the entire human cast of Kingdom Hearts to my table, but I’ve locked the door and they’re still outside in the rain. Sometimes tough love is the only thing a bunch of insufferable tweens respond to.

Yeah, I just don’t see that kind of sweeping change happening with Vince in the picture. He’s an old-school carnie and he’s not gonna change. I wish he’d step aside already, not only because I think it’d be better for the wrestlers if Vince were gone, but I think the WWE has grown so painfully stale that it’d take big…

The PS4 definitely has build quality issues. My PS4 has been getting crazy loud for nearly as long as I’ve owned it. The machine seems to eat thermal paste like hummus. I’ve had mine professionally repaired once, just to replace the thermal paste and give everything a once over. It helped for a while, but it didn’t…

In a country divided along class lines that are more like class fortress walls, recklessly spending that kind of money is an aspirational fantasy.

I’ll be honest. I love a lot of Destiny, but stopped playing when it seemed like they kept recycling the same old shit, and all my old shit started becoming useless. After maybe six months not playing the game, I came back and never felt like I could keep up with the meta.

If I’m gonna spend $200 on a pair of boots, that’s getting into more-information territory. The site gives you zero information. It’s got a Vibram Lug outsole, that’s an easy call. But is it Goodyear welted? Is the foot bed leather? Is the heel stacked leather or pressboard? Does it come with a free Karen haircut like…

Grand Theft Auto: Appalachia confirmed. Worked well for Fallout 76.

That’s a bit rich for my tastes. It’d be a slick little emulation machine, though.

As someone who loves GTA but thought GTA5 was trash and thinks GTAO is shitty, I’m both happy to hear they’re still doing GTA things over at Rockstar, and just sad that a this PS3 game is still the only GTA we’ve gotten in years.

Destiny continues to feel like a seat-of-its-pants franchise. It seems less like they want to maintain the game so much as maintain the service. It’s the video game version of a house where everyone has to huddle in one room because it’s too expensive to heat the whole thing. They knew the lack of loot would be an…

Given that the story is the game was a half-assed mess that petered off like a weak fart in a strong wind, I’d bet campaign DLC was always more or less an afterthought. They couldn’t even be bothered finishing what they already had.

It seems more likely that this new generation of consoles just didn’t have the kind of corporate fanfare we’re used to, and what we were left with was the naked truth: New console generations just aren’t special the way they used to be. Nothing much has changed. Without the hype one time to blow ya mind, minds really…

...it would be a totally different experience.

Read the room, Tim.

I saw a video demonstration of the trigger feedback the other day, and my first thought was that there was no way that’d be comfortable to use for extended periods of time. I’ll be honest, I thought the SixAxis sucked, and that the trackpad on the DS4 was stupid. Sometimes I feel like Sony has a boner for controller…

Circumstances call for more conservative business measures right now, I know. I couldn’t fault the industry for trying to fill the spaces left by this pandemic with games that are more easily produced. But things have gotten absurd.

I suppose you just come to expect it from this game at this point. I’m sure Bungie is listening. They’re always listening.