He certainly loves to use it - He definitely goes virulent when he wants to signal to his voter base, who are rabid racist animals. Like with gun control it’s hard to tell how he personally feels vs how he’s acting - my personal take is that he’s casually racist, and ‘racist’ against anyone whose name isn’t Trump and…

His fans are even worse than he is.  Kind of like Trump, he doesn’t seem to be a virulent racist, just a casual one, but once you see the scum who are his biggest supporters it’s pretty clear what he is.

The game goes so far out of its way to tease its secret sci-fi plot that it never actually gets far enough into what’s actually happening to stay interesting. ... and characters who someone desperately tried to make mysterious but just come off corny and poorly written. “I know a thing,” they essentially say,…

This seems more like MHW 1.5 than just an ‘expansion’ - In the old days they’d have called something this big MHW 2.  Not that I’m complaining!  My palicoe is lonely...

This stuff is ‘Luke came across something he thought was cool and shared it’.

So since he can’t see the colors most people do, he’s ‘over’compensating with an extreme knowledge of color theory- and that makes his stuff awesome. Very inspiring!

You keep saying this like it’s a bad thing. Trimming non-essential bits of games is a sign that your designers know what the hell they’re doing. Precisely because it removes something non-essential and distracting from your core gameplay (showing faces adds absolutely nothing to this game), and second because it saves…

That’s just smart game design though. Who cares about the meatsacks for a game like this?

Lehto told me that [Disintegration] began life as a spiritual successor to Bungie’s ‘90s real-time strategy series Myth.

I joke, but I also think it’s actually what happened too.

“We’ve got $20B to blow, fuck it, just buy everything.”

I guess either he or his manager decided that the top 40 music industry is just so terrible that just having a good voice isn’t enough to get you anywhere, you need a gimmick.  And they were probably right.

The remaster has some options to cut down the pain, but I will also do that, thanks.

But at least now he’s super good at pinball.

I didn’t get very far into FF8 either because I hated the characters and I couldn’t get over that and the tedium of the magic draw system.

Yeah, I hate boss fights. Okay, if I know in going the game is about the boss fights, like Dark Souls or Shadow of the Colossus then I’m calibrated and okay with it.

Wow, this is amazing.  He cosplays way better than he musics.

Some games it is - Xenogears without the music? NFW. But in a lot of games it’s just phoning it in. I always start with the music on, and if it’s ‘okay, this is a low-rent overwrought John Williams wannabe’, or otherwise too annoying I turn it off and don’t feel I’m missing much.  It’s not setting the atmosphere, it’s…

You just made Jeremy Soule cry. Okay, he’s already crying for other reasons.  But yes.

There’s no shame in just turning off the music and adding your own. I do it all the time, either because I dislike the music or, usually, because I’m sick of the music after 40 hours of it. Only the stupidest of stupid terrible mcdoodyface games don’t let you turn off the music separately from the main sounds.