This looks awesome, thanks. I have a ton of Amazon credit and I’m now just waiting for Amazon to get oculus rift S stock back. I ned HLAlyx my life lol. Who knows how long it’ll take with the coronavirus going.

I don’t think “the market” communicated that wants “more online content above single player experience.” If we got BOTH online AND single-player expansions for GTAV, and more money was made in the online mode, then yes, we could say it. But there never was a released single-player expansion so we have no idea how much…

I was really into it. Fred Armisen cracked me up.

everybody has a hill they are ready to die on. apparently for you it’s defending homophobia in pop culture.

He was also head writer on basically all their projects. He has a deep fingerprint in their games. I get your point but I think it’s valid to call him a big deal, even while acknowledging that games are a team effort. 

You don’t know what they need. These are strangers. 

I know Overwatch does a thing where your odds of getting a legendary skin increases each time you open a box that DOESN’T have one, until you do get one and that counter resets.

“I thought it’d be nice to have her as a playable character, but the toad characters had a similar physique to a Mario character than Peach does. And if one of the four had a dress, we’d have to come up with a special programming to handle how the skirt is handled in the gameplay, and that’s really the only reason why…

My comment is only in reference to the 3d/2.5d era of mario games, pretty sure skirt physics aren’t a thing you can generate for an 8 bit NES sprite like with a 3d model...

Don’t forget nintendo spending at least a decade excusing their refusal to include Peach as a playable character in many of their mario games with “we’re too lazy to figure out how to make good skirt physics”

Surprised you don’t know about electric dog collars. Electric fences are very common. You lay a long wire all around your yard at the end of your property, you put an electric collar on your dog. When the dog gets close to the wire it beeps, and if the dog goes over/past the wire it gives a small shock that’s harmless…

Very sad news, I’ve greatly enjoyed reading both of your work on this site, and will be looking forward to reading more of you wherever you go next! Shocks me that Jim Spanfeller hasn’t resigned yet, I suppose he’s not self aware enough to realize that his hundreds of employees and the millions of this media group’s…

Guess the academy won’t be asking YOU to present the academy award for costume design this year...

Old article but the new Hitman trailer had incredible editing

Glad you put Skyrim on the game. It kind of astounds me that a game whose entire purpose is creating, customizing, and roleplaying as a unique character (with the ability to play in third person on top of that) has barely any clothing/armor that has any compelling purpose beyond stats. Mods that add clothing/armor or…

Man, could you imagine a TV show where the writer of one episode goes out of their way to discredit the story beats of a previous episode that a different writer penned for the same season? It’s honestly baffling to me to think that JJ started in television considering his handling of this movie in relation to the…

I think Fortnite, though a late-2010s game, would make the most sense as being on a theoretical 2020s list of this format, similar to how Minecraft technically hit the ground running before the 2010s actually began. Whatever changes fortnite brings to the gaming landscape won’t be fully felt until a few years from now…

You’re so on point re the cop in Episode 1, I’ve read about police shootings and it’s very clear Dontnod did considerable research on the moment-to-moment bits of confusion and escalation that are often involved in police-shootings. It still makes sense for Sean as a latino to be so wary about police, but the scene is…

They both are self-contained beyond some small bits that are borderline easter eggs (but will warm your heart if you know the characters of the first game and its prequel well), but if you own the first game already I might recommend giving that a shot. I apparently liked it a lot more than Gita, it’s a great YA myster…

This was fabulous, thanks for sharing this. I just finished the final episode and was very impressed. I’m really really really going to miss Sean and Daniel, I didn’t realize how much I had come to love getting to spend a few hours every few months seeing them until when I got to that final decision and it hurt a ton.