I do still think it’s nonsense to put Cyberpunk 2077 in the Ongoing Game category, particularly when the only reason it was really “continuing” is that they had to continue to fix their shit, and now they’ve announced they’re done. Somebody really wanted to give CD Projekt Red a consolation prize.

an awful lot of snorting and confusion at why such a recent game was already receiving a remake

Way too many people, every time this happens: “I want more of that thing I loved before. But bigger and shinier and better. But DON’T CHANGE ANYTHING. But make it even more awesome. But make it just the same. But: WAY MORE OF IT. But, only what I remember exactly as I remember it, right now. But how dare you have any…

Best tag to a movie ever y/y?

Well, if anything good came out of this game and this thread, it’s that now I want to go watch Sneakers again.

I still remember one time in the ‘80s visiting a friend’s house and spotting some of her dad’s magazines, which were very “I am a Serious Businessman with delusions of grandeur” in tone. (My friend lived in Bellevue — next door to Redmond, if you’re unfamiliar — and her dad was a very BMW-and-expensive-golf-clubs kind…

They missed a golden opportunity for a LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE subhed there.

Too bad Apple didn’t buy them instead and bring ‘em home.

Granted, sometimes everybody sounds pretty much like themselves.

Yeah, that was the trailer that sold me on getting a PS2. (That, and I wanted to play DDR at home. Which I did. Extensively.) It ran on the DVD for Spirits Within, which I’m pretty sure is why they make such a point of “Final Fantasy: the games” in the dialogue.

They actually did use the official pronunciation in the original trailer for the game, but it’s the only place I ever heard it.

That’s all well and good if contracting is used as it’s supposed to be: temporary need, temporary job. If you think the tech industry at large isn’t exploiting the fuck out of it to crank people through one after the other, give them no benefits, and be able to ditch them at the drop of a hat without severance, you’re…

Microsoft: apparently really unable to get over the fact that it doesn’t own that other incredibly successful video game company practically in the middle of their campus. (Look at a map of Redmond sometime.) It’s just...there. Mocking them. Valve being a couple blocks down the street from their Bellevue offices…

I got as far as “P-Organ” and then my brain kind of shut down and did nothing but snicker for three minutes.

I see that subhed and I respect it.

Planteary?

“Okay, Taylor, I understand that you like both, but you have to pick one: shorts or pants?”

So this is assuredly one for the “this is a Me Problem(tm)” file, but what keeps turning me off about this game is the premise: the whole “you’ve got a parasite in your brain” thing. Much of the rest of the game sounds like it’s right up my alley, but I am having a hard time getting past this deep-seated sense of…

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…