Boba the Everything Slayer

I’ve really backed off on pre-orders myself. The only two I had in this year were for TLoU2, which Sony canceled during the lockdown delays (I chose not to re-up it, and still haven’t played it), and then for Spider-Man: Miles Morales. I figured in the latter case that since that game was largely built off…

Yeah, and it looks more like Sony forced their hand than the other way around. Announcing on the behalf of other companies that those companies will give you your money back is asking for trouble, and Sony yanking the game entirely off their store after that read very much to me as a “if it’s going to be this way,…

Speaking here as a woman with fertility issues, so if anyone has the right to take such a plot personally, it’s me:

I admit I bounced off The Witcher 3 because I just could not, for whatever reason, get my head around the controls. I kept thinking of that while watching a Cyberpunk 2077 stream and making note of multiple weird-ass UI choices and the problems the player was having with the controller.

Wouldn’t surprise me. Having been through multiple floods, I can attest that water can absolutely wreck your shit. And oh, god, trying to recover from it is miserable and exhausting.

Pretty sure you got it in one.

Plus, there are six new missions, that will, according to the patch notes, “characters and lore from Cyberpunk 2077.”

(Seriously, that whole episode was a joy. If you’ve never watched Game Ranch before, don’t even try to understand what’s going on. Just run with it. And bear in mind that usually the people on the couch for this show are Travis Willingham, Laura’s husband, and Brian W. Foster, Ashley’s fiancé, so when they’re…

The only thing that would be even better than that is Ashley and Laura duking it out for the win.

Reminds me of a conversation I had with one of my coworkers on the mobile app for a certain coffee company: “We’re just selling hot bean water.”

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds. Relentlessly pretty throughout.

Having worked in tech for years,* I’ve come to believe that the entire MVP concept — which is not “most valuable player” here, but “minimum viable product” — has corroded so much of the process that it’s kind of unbelievable. No one’s ever aiming for putting out the product as it should be. No one’s willing to give…

It still seems odd to me to consider going to theaters being social, when the entire point is to sit in a dark room for two hours not speaking to each other while paying your complete attention to something else. Watching movies at home with other people, where you have the freedom to call your own shots about things,…

Co-signed.

Hollywood, yes.

Hades gave characters from Greek mythology happy endings.

I only got as far as processing “Microsoft 2021 calendar” and found myself drifting off the actual topic to wonder if they’re putting out new cat calendars this year, and then if there’s any way for me to get hold of one, since the store on campus is, last I checked, still closed.

Turns out I captured some footage of that a while ago, so whyever not:

I have spent an absurd amount of time in this game’s main hub. You know the areas where you can pilot your snakes/worms/whatevers into those circular spaces that mirror every motion the lines make so that you can just sort of make pretty symmetrical squiggles forever while the music plays?