It’s still pretty tacky and tasteless. There are a ton of other dances or gestures he could do to have a personal connection with his daughter—ones that don’t also intimate that you’re shoving your scoring down the other team’s throats. Especially when you dive, as Griezmann obviously, painfully did early in that game…

I think your Cuphead start time is off.

Alan Wake! Certainly not a perfect game by any means, but I thought there was a lot to love between its setting and mechanics concepts. Plus, I still enjoy mocking Alan’s hideous inner monologue to this day.

It’s possible. I do have massive issues with this season though, and a large part of that is the core ambiguities introduced of what’s real, what isn’t, and what we—as the audience—should consider or care about. I didn’t mind the ambiguities early on in the season, but I believe it was on Hawley to provide some…

It’s definitely a shame to see the tourist-mania in certain spots in Japan and yes, that’s one of the reasons I try to go during off seasons or to go to spots off the beaten path.

This reminds me of the golden age of MUDDs, when the GMs for a world would script events at random, when special merchants would show up unannounced (and have to be discovered), and all sorts of other secret shenanigans abounded. It was fantastic and magical, in part because the world itself was text-based and left to…

Uhhh, doesn’t Instagram have Ts&Cs? Can a 9-year-old even sign up for the service according to them? IIRC for YouTube it’s, what, 13?

I’ll avoid the obvious HL3 comments and instead say that I’m happy to see Campo Santo joining a company that has in the past made some fantastic games. I thought Firewatch was a complete gem of a game, and although it was sadly too short, it showcased a really interesting opportunity for narrative-style games. I’m not…

I did an eyebrow raise at this too. I’m still not convinced things are as straightforward as the show (and reviewers) would make it seem, and I’m still questioning how much of Division 3 as we see it and the sphere/Future Syd is real/true.

Oh come on. Sure, they should’ve, but let’s not kick these guys now—they actually listened and made a change in a timely manner.

It has been fascinating to watch the Brooklyn gentrification over the past few decades, along with the housing conditions, pricing, and commutes people are willing to stomach. When I got off the R train in Bay Ridge and saw an Artichoke, I stood there for a good five minutes in disbelief. Only in a borough like…

The boat concept felt like a high-end version of kaiten sushi and, given Fugiyama, I’m sure that’s very intentional. Also Fugiyama in general is an odd Japanese name—Fujiyama would be what I’d expect to see, and I don’t believe Fugiyama even *is* a proper Japanese surname. “yama” means mountain, but without seeing the…

Well, it looked like it had horns / a bull’s head, which makes me think of the minotaur and, since the show already mentioned mazes at the top of the episode, I got the sense that the minotaur is recovering strength, getting ready to come for someone (all of them?) in the maze.

*adjusts in lawn chair*

Hah, tell me about it. Having a significant number of girls into the games I was playing back in high school would have seemed like a dream come true.

As someone who has been listening to Asian music for more than 20 years, it doesn’t seem so ironic or strange why Asian music has more appeal than Asian-American music. For many, Asian music is also a cultural export from (usually) Korea or Japan. I’ve known countless people whose enjoyment of <insert letter>-pop was…

Ah, that makes much more sense.

What do glass ceilings (traditionally understood as limits on how high women can climb in corporate/power settings) have to do with this? I guess I can make some vague connections that women in power would be stricter on pedophiles, but it seems like a strange point to make in the context of the information given.

I’m often interested in your Splitscreen topics but the podcasts themselves are so long (though I appreciate you giving timestamps). I kind of wish there were transcriptions available or that some of the more interesting topics (like typography in mobile gaming) were their own articles.

I’d much rather see some pretty actress with a natural body unclothed.