Hard agree. I only put ten hours into that game before giving up, but goddammit setting the hook shouldn’t require spending 10 hours futzing with broken guns in an open world that’s relentlessly beige and empty. Outer Worlds looks much more my speed. 

For real. I really like Shur, but he’s losing his magic (or he just really needs Greg Daniels to get the best out of him). Forever made much better use of its weird premise and treated characters like regular ol’ messily unique humans so the emotional stakes had some heft. I remain intrigued by the potential in TGP…

I’m curious what it is about The Good Place doesn’t work for you. I’ve enjoyed it for the most part, but it just gets too schmaltzy at times and ends up feeling like a Disney Channel show trying to punch above its weight. It’s starting to feel like when they wanted to put some distance between Parks and Rec and The…

Continuing to be the kid with the hand-me-downs. Just finished up AC: Black Flag and while it was a great game, it was my first AC and I was pretty let down by the stealth and controls. Seriously, can I at least have a fuckin’ crouch button or a run button that doesn’t paste me to every object within ten feet? Anyhow,…

Love to be one of the biggest names in video games and sell big ass boxes of tedium re-branded as a mechanic used to evoke the despair of a broken world. Love to put on my Ted Talk voice so I can say “Turds..........or candy bars?” at 29 different trade shows. Love to charge sixty bucks for an unstable Second Life mod…

Red Gruden is one of the best bits I’ve ever seen on the internet and this...just wow. For real, it’s the simple things in life that bring such joy. Thank you, Deadspin. 

I know he seems mild in this here rogues gallery, but there’s something so ubiquitous about Bill Simmons that makes him the worst. He’s every dipshit neighbor/coworker/aggressively boisterous restaurant patron condensed into a single person. They are the cells of the larger Bill Simmons organism. A siphonophore,…

“Pokemon Go was a great concise title, what should we name the next big installment?” 

I’m really having a tough time understanding the desire to play a game that’s been stripped of the one thing that made it bearable to most in the first place, leaving only a buggy hoarding sim. I mean I get that I’m not really the target audience here, but this is some next level tedium.

Damn. I would love to see Binary Domain. It was one of the first things I played after getting back into gaming. I got it cheap with a Sega bundle and had no idea what it was, so I was completely bowled over.

Was anyone else disappointed with the second season? Rick was such a boring and lazy joke and they leaned so hard on it over and over and I just gave up after five episodes rather than hear that goddamn Slimer voice again. 

Can’t wait to see the responses from angry nerds who think if you put a knife in the dishwasher it will transform into a perfect sphere of oatmeal.

Reviewers were right to roast Absolution’s doofy ass story and Godsmack album aesthetic, but it had some great levels for infinite replay. The garage where you take out the greasers? Classic. Sorta makes for a good thread topic, too. What are some favorite game levels to replay?

The Shamwow remix was great too. Vince doesn’t shit in the washing machine.

All the prime Chess strategies sound like the made-up moves from MXC and now I’m upset that this tournament doesn’t feature Kenny Blankenship calling half the moves a “pagan prayer”. 

Riding the train every day you gotta have patience and the ability to abide a bit of the chaos. This though? Uh uh. Nope. I hope every one of these trash goblins emerges from their inevitable whooping of “Can’t hear ya haters!” with tinnitus.

Maker of hoarder simulation disguised as FPS promises to improve hoarding mechanics. 

Honolulu is an atrocious airport in almost every way. I know it’s too small to really make a list like this, but Hilo is great. Appleton, WI too. 

Love to *checks notes* collect loot and do literally nothing else in *checks notes again* the Hell level of SkiFree.