Downsizing: A Kinja Story

I like the deal when I hit “View more comments”, it takes me back to the top of the thread and I can re-read the comments I already read.

The music in this game is so fucking awesome. My favorite is the song that plays whenever you enter the last stage of a dungeon to steal the treasure. It never fails to pump me up for a boss fight.

I never saw this coming.

The badges go back to the days of Gameological’s independent existence. When John did the AMA on reddit to promote his show I asked if I could finally have one (having contributed a couple of articles to the site) and he said he would sort it out. Also to remind him in case nothing emerged, but in the end I only had…

I got a letter this week from a very important television personality:

While it is nice to get some level of resolution on the Half-Life issue, it hardly seems like the plot of the games is the reason why people played them. Don’t get me wrong, both Half-Life games did a fantastic job of wrapping the plot into the gameplay (the first game one, in particular, launched a whole movement…

My weekend will definitely include at least two of the three games on my docket at present: Splatoon 2, NieR: Automata, and Not A Hero.

I also bought <i>Jak and Daxter</i> this week on PS4. It’s a lot harder than I remember! I don’t know if I just had more patience when I was in my early 20s, or if I was just tired this week, or if the port is a little off.

Hey everyone. Good to see some familiar faces. I moved to California to become a junior software engineer at a game company that makes video game pinball machines. They’re known for Pinball Arcade. It’s been pretty great so far at work. I’m working on adding the dlc to the PS4.

“...that’s the mix we’re going to get for the foreseeable future: a combination of known horrors, unknown horrors, and things we never accounted for, because we never thought we would get this future.”

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