Yep. I saw that HZD set at my local LEGO store last week after previously being out of stock.

Something I desperately wish my fellow nerds would get their heads around: “complex” is not a synonym for “good,” and people complaining that something’s confusing doesn’t automatically mean they’re stupid. Sometimes the thing being critiqued is unnecessarily convoluted and thereby not even effective at what it’s…

If the entirely fictional Goncharov, born of feverish memetic invention on Tumblr, can have a Wikipedia page — and it does — than so can Barbenheimer.

Just had to say that “pringled” is a delightful term.

Nah. Stand over your campfire, or backyard grill, or whatever, clutching your card and looking conflicted, then increasingly drunk with power. Then have your buddy tackle you from offscreen and go tumbling with the card toward the fire pit. Let the card be cast into the flames. Over the inferno, toast marshmallows.

I did a contract writing documentation for a fraud management service, and sat in on several usability tests to find out what users were having problems with and which features might need better explanations. One of the tools that caused the most confusion? Redaction. Because as implemented, at least at the time, it…

Oh, fuck off, Microsoft.

I was feeling incredibly conflicted about this game, and not convinced enough to buy it, so I peeked at the demo and watched a few hours of someone’s playthrough to get more of an idea of what it looked like longer term. What I’m left with is basically this:

Yeah, and $1 is a pittance; at that point it’s really just for the sake of a paper trail that “yep, we talked, I gave permission, they paid me, they’re good.”

Yeah. I read the Vulture article first, and it...colored my perceptions of this one, shall we say. Because now it just looks like a whole bunch of fiddly extra work that doesn’t add much getting dumped into everyone’s laps.

Well, Balthier is the leading man, don’t you know.

A: None of this is even remotely surprising.

*side-eyes several of these ads* I shouldn’t speak too broadly, I know, I know, but at the same time...men, y’all have some issues.

A few days ago on another forum, I saw a few posts reporting an issue with a different game, Honkai Star Rail, that has two gender options for your main playable character. There was a glitch in the new event that briefly showed the wrong character model for some players — namely, showing the female protagonist…

There’s one game I’ve played where the protagonist is pregnant, and yeah, it’s a combat-free indie game. It would also be a spoiler to name it, I suppose, since you don’t find out she’s pregnant until partway through the game, and then it’s pivotal to why the story’s playing out the way it is. But it’s very much an…

Ask the ESRB.

Clearly we need a crossover so Nyx and BD-1 can meet and be best friends.

I don’t inherently have a problem with a game that wears its influences on its sleeve. I do have a problem with marketing BS that pitches all of that as new, innovative, and exciting, while at the same time trotting out such timeworn Bethesda classics as “NPC anchored in the center of the screen staring creepily at…

It’s already on YouTube.

If you’ve gone too grimdark for Moogles, you need to stop and rethink your life.