this but unironically

That false equivalence is kinda the point of the entire article. Way to miss it. You moved like they do.

This is an extremely bad take. Just so you know.

“To me it’s the exact same thing as Gina Carano”

I had a Jeopardy game for the Commodore-64. It gave you 30 seconds to type in your answer. It also relied on the honor system that you wouldn’t peek at other players answers during Final Jeopardy.

I think you just answered the question of what was going on with a Twitch stream I popped in on earlier in the night. The streamer was largely silent, commenting on something unseen, and chat was competing to be the first to answer questions I felt like I was missing. I’m re-contextualizing this as everyone watching…

To answer the question: no, not really.

Well, since I haven’t posted in a WAYPTW thread since before Christmas, I have stuff to actually talk about for once!

It’s amazing that in my 36 years how much truly regrettable shit I’ve witnessed/experienced with this country. Like I remember during Bush W. era thinking “This is rock bottom, it can’t possibly get worse than being lucky to work in fast food” and comparing that to a literal attempted coup by rednecks led by a literal…

You’re welcome! It’s a game that reviewed well at release, but it unfortunately seems to have failed to make an impact, so I’m doing my part to spread the word about its excellence.

This is a long post, but video games played a pretty big part of this year for me, so I wanted to write a longer retrospective. Most of the games I talk about didn’t come out this year, but two—both of which I loved—did.

I recently finished The Witcher 3: Please, Geralt, could you stop exploring every unmapped corner and just save the world already? and its DLC...or at least as much of it as I cared to. It was a fine experience, a well-told tale, but I’m probably not going to dive back in for a New Game+ any time soon.

Smash fanbase: No more anime sword fighters.

Thank you for writing this Ash. I’m a Black game developer who has been in AAA for a long time, and I can definitively say that this problem will not be fixed by game companies because they have all of the same issues with White supremacy that their communities have.

Those instances in which you stumble into an under-rendered environment are so precious and bizarre. I think MMORPGs lend themselves to that because of the vastness and persistence of their space, but I had a similar thing happen in Skyrim once. A door out of a town failed to load, so I was free to walk through where…

This is one of my favorite AVClub articles right here, as it puts words to a feeling that I’ve struggled to express. Especially the bit about the difference between game worlds and cinematic worlds (or other forms of media). Interestingly, it’s arguably only a portion of game worlds too, since 2D environments don’t…

This week, I have only played a couple of games. If you recall last week’s thread, you might recall that I was trying to play World of Tanksand while I could get into the game and was rewarded with a bunch of anniversary stuff but couldn’t get into the actual random battles, which I blamed on my potato laptop. As it…

I haven’t played a Doom since Doom 64. From reading this one’s reviews, it sounds more and more like the one I need to check out is the last one that came out a few years ago. I don’t know. I always found FPS’s fascinating, but they were never a genre I was naturally goot at or cared to put the time into to get good…

Congrats on finishing Divinity: Original Sin! Re: Lightning Returns, I’d say if you enjoyed the first two games, you’ll have a bunch of fun with that entry too. Lightning is your only core party member and the combat system is all about swapping her outfits back and forth in a fight depending upon the needs of the…

Even though the plot of the Souls series is a slow moving apocalypse that repeatedly transforms the kingdoms of the game the last one is my favorite. The Dreg Heap, the place at the end of time where all lands converge physically.