Which is why asking a girl on a Mario Kart date is a surefire bet. Seriously. Don’t get salty if/when you lose, just remember that you now get to have sex with your couch co-op buddy (unless you were already doing that before, gay or otherwise).

My girlfriend and I played DS3 and are currently playing Bloodborne tandem. We’ll swap the controller on fair deaths (falling down a cliff cause you were talking to me or taking a drink doesn’t count) and bonfires/lanterns (if there was enough time between em). Your intense rant at the end there reminded me so much of…

I respect the semantics that you’re trying to bring to the table to make this a bit more of a gray area. Unfortunately, AGDQ’s hands are almost tied in this instance and, from what I understand, the runner is also cool with it. They can’t be seen condoning any twitter brigades or else, eventually, their complicit…

The mistake happened around the time that the runner snagged the Master Sword. They described that segment as a reset to all the glitches and bugs they, intentionally, shoved in to the game to let them glitch about a bit. From what I understand, once the game recognizes that you grab the sword it soft resets the code…

Ray Narvaez Jr (the real Brownman) donating at the end with a fun message was awesome as well.

I used to be a weapons instructor in the military and I definitely fall into the mental health/training crowd. I helped our base range help a local pd requal and seeing them not hit the broad side of a barn really set my teeth on edge. And these are folks that should be better than average. Anyway, i currently live…

I don’t think this is nefarious in the slightest and is something that has been a part of journalism since its inception. The only time it’s ever an issue is if the “influencer” doesn’t disclose the connection. And, in my experience, if it isn’t disclosed it gets sussed out pretty quickly and that person or entity…

Nope, of course it ain’t all bad; both those examples bring positives and negatives with their “walled gardening”. Apple has a ridiculously streamlined system that is the paragon of guaranteed quality in regards to anything that you get (as long as it works, of course). On the other hand they’ll randomly remove things…

She does pay for it, we all pay into it. A healthier, both physically and mentally, population raises all ships. I’m more than happy to pay my taxes and have it go towards welfare programs that help people make their way forward and, hopefully, out of their situation. The alternative starts to smack a bit of…

Loot boxes becoming a thing kind of sucked. Not a disappointment so much as a resigned sigh or something. I feel like we finally got through to the producers (not so much the developers, I think they’re on our side) that we’ll only buy quality DLC only to have them say, “okay, got you fam... but what if you also…

The Steam thing is weird; they were pretty public about their intentions in regards to it being a space where anyone could get their shit out there. Yeah, they had some speed bumps but constructive criticism and savvy use of their own flawed systems had those things ironed out literally as they were happening. End of…

Political opinions, reactions, and observations are a part of life and an intrinsic part of our reality. My GF being able to get birth control for free is, as an end result, part of politics. Art is a reflection of life, something we use to explain and try to make sense of ourselves. Games, as a medium, are one avenue…

I wouldn’t consider Fallout 4 to be disgrace; I definitely got my hours in and I enjoyed it while I did. I will never finish the game and I also will never go back to it, so there’s the other half of that coin. That being said: I thought the DLC injected the RP aspects that I felt made the core game so one-dimensional…

I had to +1 you for such a even-keeled account of what I view as the norm in regards to feminism. It gets frustrating when I see the idea get strawman’d and subsequently beaten into a pulp when, in every article where a feminist question is posed, there’s a multitude of responses just like yours. So that means that…

A modding team is actively building the entirety of Morrowind in the Skyrim engine. I think its called “Skywind” or something. Progress is slow considering they have only volunteers but there is definite, demonstrable progression. It’ll still probably be a year or two but I for one am stoked; I never actually played…

Wait, I thought there was a whole cave system and some Hell levels as well?

Please, for the love of all that’s holy, realize that muscle memory is a thing. You weren’t birthed with competency in using a controller or keyboard/mouse: Some of us literally started in the 80's or 90's with a NES or SNES controller and haven’t quite internalized what decades of use has done to our motor skills.…

Go check out “The Way”; it just released earlier this year and I had a nostalgic blast with it. It helped that it cribbed all the best parts of those earlier games (the atmosphere, the sense of story, and the feeling of mystery) while ditching the bad bits (controls and combat). It gets a bit more action-y at times…

First time trying to post on the blog; figured this would be a great, if ironic, spot to put this out there. PSN has been down twice for unscheduled maintenance in the last two weeks and both have been for around 4 hours or so. The most recent one is, currently, still ongoing. Something that is a bit incredulous…