Yep, which is how I’d categorize Austin Powers, Zoolander, and a number of other movies.

I’d argue that was kind of the point with Pootie Tang no? If a movie tries to be bad-good and succeeds, is it bad or is it actually just plain good?

Yeah, I am all for complaining about how this adaptation is coming along BUT that second comparison doesn’t fit what the article is going for. Sure, it looks different, but the stained glass is still pretty pop-y and overall the scene looks good (if derivative of the anime).

Or have a huge install base. I honestly picked it up for a few minutes and put it down again, since I’d just finished the PS4 Spider-Man and MM seemed like more of the same. I am not in the majority there though, I’m sure.

I still love the gameplay flow of Souls games, and the other souls-likes aren’t quite there to me. I wouldn’t mind a retailer at the boss door like you suggest. So you actually get to spend your souls, level up and come back stronger after you die. But then every death comes with empowerment, and I don’t necessarily…

The missing piece is the profitability of GaaS though. For instance, isn’t Destiny rumored to be rather unprofitable despite its popularity? I have been reading worries that Activation spun off Bungie because it was too expensive to run and that that’s also why Bungie keeps removing content (which is wild but…

Some caveats: The ranking is based on cumulative hours played across the playerbase, not on total number of players. (According to Ryan, PS5 players clocked a cumulative 4.6 billion hours.)

Yes, but that’s ignoring cost of living which everyone conveniently always does. $340k in NYC vs. $340k in Hill City, SD are very different effective incomes. 

I assume Vaati got permission? He’s so well-known at this point that I have to imagine Bandai actually whitelisted him for the test with the expectation he would deliver a sterling video on the game.

That’s assuming you can pick up your 50k you lost. Sometimes you eek by an area, get in over your head, die, and then you can’t necessarily get back. Not always, but sometimes.

From what we’ve seen. Knowing FromSoftware I expect there to be healthy melee options, though (as you say) incorporating arts and/or investments in weapons themselves.

I felt a great disturbance in the Souls, as if millions of “Git Gud”s suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly ignored.

Looking good! I’m particularly excited that sorcery seems to have returned as a viable way to play through a Souls game. I can’t do the tense reflex-based combat anymore, so having options that allow me to strategize and lean into ranged combat is very helpful.

Ah, Something Awful. I still remember being weirded out by having to pay to join a forum and that you could get banned and have to pay again and that some people seemed to take an almost bizarre pleasure in being banned. More specifically, I loved the Ghost Story threads and still remember first reading all the Humper-…

*cue audience laughter*

Josh wasn’t lost at any point in that walk. It was all strategy to test Logan and Kendall.

Pretty sure Josh knew exactly how to get back but purposely led them around to create tension and wear them down.

I mean, up until the boss fights which are generally the hardest part of the Souls game and, at least for me, where I tend to have to give up because I hit a wall. I’m not sure I would say Souls games aren’t hard.

I’ve heard a lot of abuses of the English language but being “actioned against” is a new one. Always amusing when an instigating party twists words around to remove themselves as the subject of an action verb.

I’m beginning to think these billionaires are slamming the tax and only pretending to not know how it works because it’s easier to fool mainstream people that way. And, if called out, they can simply claim ignorance. A reasoned argument against the tax would be likely dry and un-incendiary, neither of which helps…