Maybe it’s Freudian?
Adam Withers
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Starring for “Ammo-sexual.” Bravo.
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Mine is Terra’s theme from FF6, particularly from the Piano Collections soundtrack. It is just so haunting and beautiful and sad and uplifting all at once. Every time I hear it, it pulls at my heart and I get all emotional. Now yes, I am certainly a sentimental bastard who gets emotional probably too easily, but the…
Does anybody else find the Avengers game just, like, profoundly unattractive? They all look lumpy and bland; the men all look like they’re coming out of retirement after letting themselves go for five years. They’re the bland suburban parent version of themselves. Or, like, cut-rate knockoffs from an Asylum movie…
Me: People get jealous because he’s so attractive and famous and successful, but also paints minis and plays warhammer and is a huge PC gaming dork.
Finding a Nacon Revolution controller last winter was what got me to buy a PS4. Had an XBox-style controller not existed for PS, I flat out would not have bought one. I hate the dualshock stick positioning that much. It is an incredibly uncomfortable controller for me, and always leads to cramping and hand pain. I’m…
Finding a Nacon Revolution controller last winter was what got me to buy a PS4. Had an XBox-style controller not…
You don’t know what order information came in. They may have sent the email before they were able to find other confirming sources and, once he rejected them, they went elsewhere and got the info they needed there. You also don’t know what the email even entailed - if maybe it’s the respondent who’s being…
It’s not harassment, it’s an email. They’re doing their jobs, dude.
You can be thrilled all day, but that doesn’t warrant the pushback the negative reviews have gotten. The game is intentionally making the player suffer for doing the things the game wants you to do, and that dissonance can be exasperating. To turn on the game for it, to decide it’s not a worthwhile experience, is…
Video games are different from other media in that you aren’t just passively experiencing something, you are an active participant in the events. Watching movies or TV, or even reading books about difficult, unhappy subject matter is one thing - playing a 35 hour game of unhappiness, misery, and cruelty is, in a way,…
To Kimmel, his straightness, and his history of speaking as a gleeful misogynist, actually makes him more of an authority on something like gay rights because he’s speaking from a place of straight “objectivity” instead of the real, lived experience of a gay person.
The one problem there is that DC Universe is hellishly bad as a digital comics platform. I owned it for a free month to watch the new Young Justice and was stunned at all the basic QoL problems they allowed through. It was abundantly clear to me that either A) those hired to do the job had no idea what they were…
Came here to say the same. Aykroyd always been one of the very best “patter” guys on the planet, and when he gets on a roll it is absolutely priceless.
Which has nothing to do with my point, which was that it’s possible a minority of players inflate the sales data on certain types of titles. I’m not saying that’s a fact, I’m saying it’s a possibility and I’d be interested to see people with access to the data really dig into it.
I would be curious to see genuine statistical breakdowns, but I know that numbers and dollar figures can be deceptive. With many retail products, it’s fewer than 20% of users accounting for more than 80% of purchases. It wouldn’t be that hard for a small percentage of ultra-competitive gamers to skew the numbers so…
Look... you have a lot of misconceptions about how this industry works. I could try and explain, but it’s been my experience that people on the outside with ideas like yours tend not to actually care what it’s really like for those on the inside, so I won’t go into it all.