They’re basically the same.  Sysco brand frozen dinners.

I played a lot of Barotrauma and Raft this year without having as much of an issue with ocean fear stuff but I suspect a lot of that is Raft being chill and Barotrauma being janky fun with friends.

As a rule I usually hate oxygen meters. I don’t think it’s a fear thing (though games love to make underwater stuff super…

While I get what you’re trying to say, just gonna throw this out there; a lot of the “everyday” activities described here are still escapism for someone like me, who has only ever lived in an American suburban sprawl environment where these are absolutely not common everyday occurrences that I can relate to.

It is honestly comical how you are now completely unable to get through a Kotaku article without making some sort of comment about how Kotaku makes political statements on gender identity, race, sexuality, politics (a political statement on politics, really?), etc. Why, and I truly am curious, are you unable to just…

In addition to moving primary controls back to something haptic, they really should figure out what features people actually use on the car’s infotainment screen and revamp the UI/UX around what’s actually being used.

every single time this pops up i know I’m going to lose another 6:22 because it’s just too good not to watch

When it comes to cash, it’s best to have enough to get you through a week or so of paying for fundamentals like gas for your car and generators, groceries, necessary prescriptions, and maybe a night or two of emergency housing like a hotel or motel room.

If the power is out at a store, they’re not opening. Most store POS require Internet regardless of whether you’re using a card or not.

The lights flickered a bit here in December while I was at the grocery store and panicked employees started running around telling everybody to hurry up and buy because they were…

All of those things you use as examples you might need to pay for with your emergency cash are at businesses that, I’m fairly certain, will not be opening if they don’t have electricity. And if they have electricity, they can likely accept a credit card.

Games are just not as fun or exciting if I’ve been devouring every piece of information for 5+ years of development after they’re announced.

Same, I didn’t always get magazines every month so it was like a few times a year I’d be sort of up to date on what was going on with new games and I miss that.

I miss getting excited about general information. It was so limited in those days before widespread internet use that every month felt a little like Christmas.

““I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.””

No, Mark, you are making 11,000 other people take responsibility for that. You are taking no responsibility.

Some of these totally look like old school Mega Man bosses.

I never romance anybody because it feels like the game is a bit too insistent about it and I find that very off-putting. Everyone seems to be very obviously interested in you for no reason, to the point that I feel like I’m in one of those Star Trek episodes where the crew gets some sort of space virus that makes them…

I never did. You’re the captain of the ship and pretty much everyone’s boss... it’s a bad power-dynamic in the game without getting into the real-world aspect of it feeling like I was playing with dolls making them kiss.

I romanced no one in my first unguided play through because I wanted to save the universe. I’ve talked to a lot of people about this game and realized I’m the only one who’s never romanced anyone.

As someone who is in a similar position (LOVED square during and before the psone days and into the ps2 and feel like I have watched the company deteriorate ever since) I think its some combination of Sakaguchi leaving and the merger with Enix, which I believe happened relatively close together and are likely related.…

I would imagine kids probably factor into it for a lot of people.  Sure, everyone has more responsibilities the older they get, but kids are on a whole other level.  I’m more tolerant of these types of games and I believe a part of that is not having kids to interrupt gaming time.  That said, I think the best option…