Y’know...if we collectively agree to stop giving these miserable fuckwits the attention they so goddamned desperately, pitifully claw at, they’ll eventually just go away and be forgotten like they should be.

Welcome to America.

This is a war crime on people with data caps.

That photo is everything that is wrong with policing in this country.

The cops had already determined they were going to try to shoot someone when they got word that the parties involved in this altercation were either black or homeless.

it felt like i was having a stroke while writing this story

Jesus christ somebody please fire the people in charge of naming their consoles.

Yes.

Imagine thinking this game is coming out

Doesn’t matter how many times you prove that argument, how many times you bring up the savings associated with digital distribution, or how an always-on internet means constant access to micro transaction money and constant ad revenue streams in games that support ads.

Seems like a lot of people fundamentally don’t understand how much more money the gaming industry is making now vs even 10 years ago. The inflation argument is completely irrelevant now that digital purchases outsell physical copies by a mile PLUS the insane frequency of micro transactions in AAA titles. It’s just old…

And their top tier of each release is $120 at launch.

It’s ok, we won’t come and take your 70 dollar 2k21 from you, we know you’ll be busy paying in your microtransactions

This fucking sucks. I went to high school with Grant, and he was one of those people who literally never said or did a single thing that wasn’t kind or thoughtful. When he made it big, doing the weirdly brilliant stuff he loved, I was happy, because it meant the world was working the way it was supposed to: greatly…

Entire game felt like a chore. A chore, wrapped in incoherent, indecipherable bullshit of a Hideo story.

...but was it though?

“Death Stranding, a very, very good PlayStation 4 game”

Really, you mean those other conferences that fail every year because they forget to bring actual in game footage?