Consumerism is absolutely out of control.

Congrats is survived a car fire, pretty much any insulated “Yeti” clone tumbler would have also survived lol.  

As a dad of two young boys, this drives me crazy. Just fucking live and don’t hurt anyone. Nothing else. You want to play Tetris? Fucking play it until your fingers bleed. You want to ride your bike? Ride it. I will never understand people’s need to downplay a kid’s (or an adult’s) passions. My parents had me second…

absolutely cannot wait. like a dragon was one of my favorite games of all time and the game i spent the most time playing on ps4 (i’m usually a 60-70 hours in a game guy, i spent 90+ in this)

When I saw the Starfield award on Steam I just assumed it was the community mobbing the vote to be an ironic joke. As in Starfield feels like the least innovative game of the year.

I would argue that actively searching for them gives it power. If only the most closeted fuckheads know the term, it may function as a “dog whistle”, but nobody but them is going to give a fuck. Besides, erasing the usage of entire terms or phrases, simply because of association, gives those fuckers themselves power…

Most people aren’t familiar with neo-nazi rhetoric and symbology. Hell most people are only even vaguely aware that neo-nazis are actually a real thing that actually exists.

I think it’s a very reasonable position. It didn’t occur to me until someone else at Kotaku pointed it out ahead of publication. My default, having been a kid in the 80s, is that 88 means 1988. I think you could stop 50 people in the street and not one of them would know the number had any association with anything…

I’m pretty much the exact opposite. I feel no compulsion to min/max my settings. As long as I can get the game running smoothly most of the time, I’m happy. I also don’t feel any compulsion to Alt+Tab out of games. Once I’m gaming, I’m fully invested. I actually struggle a lot more with movies and TV shows.

Categorizing FFXVI as an RPG is a pretty big fucking stretch.  

Rogue Trader is much more entertaining RPG-wise than most of those action games

Not only are they willing to put out poor quality art just to save a few pennies, but they won’t even take the ten minutes or so to review the results before posting them. Their stupidity would be hilarious if they weren’t the ones steering the ship.

Yeah. It really helps to ignore games until they’re out or coming out the next day. I see all these people talking about GTAVI already and it’s like why. 

Dilly dally, shilly shally

Not really. A “ticking clock” is not the same as making deliberate decisions about what to do with each day visual novel style. There’s no clocking ticking as you take however long you want exploring all the possible options open to you before deciding on what to do to pass the time. Spend time with someone or upgrade…

He makes movies that are fun to watch, and that’s it.

He makes movies that are fun to watch, and that’s it.

It’s more like “Holy shit, this Whopper I ordered has wilted lettuce, old cheese, and I’m pretty sure this isn’t even beef.”

Attempting to establish an original, engrossing science-fiction world is no small task, even for the most adept of writers, and it’s painfully clear that Snyder took heavy aesthetic and stylistic notes from genre classics like Star Wars and Dune, without understanding the story and emotional beats that made those…

You know as someone who’s been into Forgotten Realms for awhile, it is awesome seeing how popular Baldur’s Gate 3 has become.  When I was a kid reading Darkwater on Moonshae, I didn’t think Faerun would become this big.  Helps that BG3 has some really good writing I suppose.