I flubbed so badly the first time through because I was too busy watching in amazement. Had to try it again after and salvage my pride. :)

PAX West is the same weekend, and given that con’s experience with H1N1 the year that went around (I was one of the dozens of people who caught it there, and it was, shall we say, Not Fun), I bet they’re especially conscious of not pulling a repeat. Tickets typically don’t go on sale until May-ish, though, so who…

I love everything about this.

Jessie’s my favorite so far.

Tifa in English (I haven’t listened to the Japanese voice track yet) sounds like her VA was trying really really hard to compensate for the presentation and show her as a mature, competent woman trying her best, and possibly trying a little too hard on occasion, to plaster a smile and a helpful attitude over all of…

I don’t have a Switch or (obviously) the game, so I’ve been watching streams instead, and I can still enjoy seeing all the nifty things people are building. Outside Xtra’s streams are _so_ friendly and chill and charming, and it’s an oddly comforting couple of hours.

Rachel Skarsten and Paul Amos were both on Lost Girl, too. I’m kind of tickled they’re still doing stuff together.

Right. So we can all get the hell over ourselves AND WAIT.

yep. See also: comic distributors, most of which are siding with “we’re not putting it out digitally until we can ship the physical product.” One of those is Dark Horse, and, however coincidentally, they’re doing a lot of the TLoU merch.

One likely scenario: As much of a mad rush as there was for the special editions, if those get delayed due to manufacturing/shipping delays (entirely possible, considering worldwide pipelines are still very, very borked right now) while the digital purchasers have their games and are happily playing away, people would…

Nah. Embrace the fact that what you THOUGHT was going to happen probably won’t. But: necessity, mother of invention, etc. People will figure out other things to do to keep ourselves all from going nuts, and you’ll have something to look forward to, even if it wasn’t what you were expecting.

The only Xbox exclusive game I gave enough of a damn about to influence purchasing decisions was the original Mass Effect release (remember that? It was a Microsoft Game Studios collab). That was why I had a 360 for a while. Everything else that I really wanted was either multiplatform or on the Sony side of the fence,…

Yep. I can say (from the depths of a different part of the company) that Microsoft, like absolutely everybody else, is figuring things out as they go. That’s really all anyone can do. We were under work-from-home-if-you-can guidance for a couple weeks, with target dates for coming back being about two weeks out from…

I’ve been enjoying the pun names Outside Xtra picked. Luke’s is Knot Atoll and Ellen’s is Den Isle.

You’d probably have decent luck with the sort of VR games that use a normal controller for movement and the headset more for perspective. I have a PSVR, and most of the games I started with were like that: Moss and Astro Bot Rescue Mission (both of which are adorable third-person platformers), Statik (clever puzzle…

As Ryan Newman surely would have appreciated at Daytona last month.

I opened this on mobile and promptly regretted it.

Let’s not forget my favorite border dispute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_War_(1859)

“It’s amazing how many issues within Dziobak echo what I’ve seen at other LARPs, cons, and scene parties.”

Why aren’t you capitalizing COVID-19? Everyone else does.