And the fucking worst, just as you sit down, ‘HEY HAVE YOU SEEN MY SUPER IMPORTANT (though it’s not) EMAIL?’ No I fucking have not, because you’re in my goddamn face before I’ve had the chance to see your email about some stupid thing I told you about three times  already you stupid marketing git.

Context is everything here. I am not a morning person, so if you give me constructive criticism early in the morning it’s not going to go over well (though I’m not going to yell and scream or anything unprofessional). If you hit me just as I get in the door, before coffee, I will bite your head off.

I guess it’s kind of a blessing then that NewEgg has gone so far downhill since they got bought that I haven’t bought anything from them in over a year. Same with my friends - I did a quick ask-around, and nobody’s bought from NewEgg in quite a while, though we all used to swear by it.

That’s too bad - it does seem like it would be too much for PS3. I played it on PC, so didn’t have that issue.  Trouble is it’s been so long now that you probably wouldn’t remember the tie-backs to the original story (what there was of it).

IIRC, Blood and Wine was fantastic, Hearts of Stone was okay, and there was a lot of little extra stuff? Which kind of fits the general pattern - you could have just bought Blood and Wine.

2-Way Pagers were the drug connection of choice. Your dealer had a pager. Your pimp had a pager. And if you’re a rapper you’re pimpin’ and dealin’ (or at least pretending you were).  I don’t know if this is still the case or if they’ve all gone to smartphones.

That is what Twitter is like if nobody knows you’re on it and you don’t follow people who attract trolls.

I’d say never buy a season pass. I can think of two games that actually had high quality season passes that made them worth it: Dishonored (1) and Bioshock Infinite. For all other games it’s just a) some extra in-game crap at the start to make it easier, b) one pretty darn good DLC, c) two mediocre DLCs. Better to…

I’m not too upset about this one. If someone wants to pay $10 extra to pay Tomb Raider two days early it’s no skin off my nose.  Like purely cosmetic stuff, if someone wants to blow their money on that, go for it - they’re subsidizing me.

Yeah, okay, the Chargers are inversely good based on how important the game is. Get them near the playoffs, or god forbid the Superbowl, and they choke like Linda Lovelace. But since this is a no-consequence game they can be really good.

If you’re getting your ass kicked by the Chargers it might be time for a Come to Jesus moment and re-evaluating your life. Plus that whole being on the Bills thing.

All that jerking, retroactively ruined.

This seems like a personal thing.

I do pay attention to firmware numbers and avoid anything that’s x.0.0 because it usually has some pretty major bugs lurking. Otherwise no.

This is probably the game that most needs it, since it had the worst quest scripting in the entire series. Maybe people won’t hate Connor quite so much when they’re not being randomly killed by stupidly tight and restrictive scripting (caught the guy too fast? You die!) and just the absolute worst ‘stealth’.

All that’s left is the 7, 8, and the new XS/XR variants.

I don’t want an X, 6, or 8! Was just pointing out what they dropped.

Technically it’s just outgassing plastics and other cancerous volatiles, like milder nail polish, but nothing smells quite like it (even CD cases smelled different, different plastics) so it’s the smell of ‘oh boy, unboxing a new vidya game!’ I do not huff my game cases, but there is a waft when you first open it…

To go with this there have been some minor studies on people who did not grow up with bacon (orthodox jews, other countries where bacon is not a thing) on whether they find the smell of bacon overwhelmingly delicious.

They like X, been holding MacOS there for over 15 years.