Exception to the ratings rule: Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, which managed plenty of good-natured ridiculous mischief and came in at a T. Butt Stallion still makes an appearance. (And that’s Her Majesty Butt Stallion to you.)

To be fair, even the Sneakers characters had their own share of dorkitude and fucking around on the job.

I saw this because Travis Willingham retweeted it and said, simply, “Hail.”

That plus sign is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

It’s showtime, girls.

I’m sure that’s the case. I deleted the demo (and then four other games, because even once I had more than the minimum storage space available, the game proper still wouldn’t install), and now the button prompt on my home screen for Rebirth is happily proclaiming, “Continue Game.”

Spiderverse makes me a little twitchy sometimes because of it, but I can completely understand what they’re doing with it (and things like the scene where Miles is at 12 fps and Peter’s at 24 to show the difference in their experience and flow? *chef’s kiss*).

Oh, sure! All they have to do is yell “Convert! Upscale! ENHANCE!!” at it and snap their fingers and it’s done! Easy-peasy! Of course!

waiting for thirty seconds while Cloud sloooowly inches through a tight gap in the level

In my experience, everything in this thread is cynical horseshit.

In regards to that last embedded tweet: You know how many games I’ve played where the ladders WEREN’T climbable?

The entire thing just breaks my brain, and it’s both infuriating and sad. How do you get so twisted up that your response to “I don’t like something that happened in a video game” is that?

Well, that was certainly a music choice!

Good for him.

Microsoft has laid me off more than once. Have I ever gotten severance?

“Discover all the soul-crushing charm of Seattle all over again,” you say, and I bleakly reply, “I already live here.”

My thoughts exactly. (Well, I was about to type “he ain’t wrong,” so you were more traditionally grammatical about it, but: same difference.)

The thing I do sympathize with: There are better ways to learn than “fail, die, lose everything, start from scratch,” but that’s what an awful lot of games expect you to do. I find it a misery, personally. Learning skills, practicing things in segments, building, improving, getting better: sure! Getting flung to the…

Well, to continue the DW theme, she’s currently co-starring with David Tennant in Macbeth onstage right now, which is...not going to be any less tragic, come to think of it.

I still feel like I need a tutorial of the “you’ve somehow managed never to play Fortnite [no, not even once, I know, shush], want to try the LEGO version, but have no idea what the fuck you’re even looking at when you launch this damn game” variety. It really does not go through any great lengths to explain itself.