Say it with me: lore is not story. 

And yet here Blizzard is, going back to having BlizzCon in person again, at what’s clearly the BEST possible time.

That video’s blocked in the US, is the problem. Peacock had streaming rights here (and as near as I could tell, you had to pay for it), so most of Eurovision’s YouTube videos don’t work.

The length of that walk was absurd, but...bwahah.

The last chunk of gameplay footage from Starfield I saw, it was a whole lot of shooting in depressingly gray landscapes and then there were some conversations that still followed the same old Bethesda model of “now you will stare at a creepy talking mannequin.” How are we still here?

I got Jedi Survivor on PS5, and here’s how my first crack at it went:

If I have one expectation of games made by a company named Respawn, it’s that nothing will stay dead for long.

I had a different experience with it. I played the first game on PS5 and bumped the combat difficulty down in large part because the reload times if you died were so freaking long. I hope they’ve streamlined it here.

All I ask for is a clear plastic poncho like the ones you get in theme parks when it rains or if you’re in the first few rows of a messy stage show.

I admire the savvy and sheer determination that goes into developing speedrunning strats, but I admit I also burst out laughing at, “Attempt after attempt, he mindlessly drove into the wall. Bonk...after bonk...after bonk.”

Critical Role did that once. (It was three years ago, before the vibe around HP as a whole got as fraught as it is now, but the mashup is still pretty entertaining.)

This reminds me of how I’m feeling about the new sign in front of my condo complex. I’m glad the damaged sign was removed, I’m very glad the flimsy temp sign is gone, and I’m glad the new one is sturdier and reasonably easy to read, but...oh, god, it is the MOST BORING FONT EVER. It’s like no one bothered to replace…

I’m thinking mouse legs with big squeaky shoes walking Cinderella’s castle out of the park, Baba Yaga-style.

I bought my original PSVR in the bundle with Gran Turismo and a camera, and it was on sale at that point for $250. Even though I had to get the controllers separately, it was kind of a steal. The new one’s harder to financially justify right now.

I’m getting the sense that you think downtown LA sucks.

You got one thig wrong.

elicit: evoke, draw out

I just want the minifigs.

Because weebs.

Yep. Portal fantasy is the typical western term for it, and frankly I’m pretty sure every culture’s got examples somewhere. The idea’s old as dirt and just as easy to find everywhere you go.