I’m gonna go out on a limb, and suggest the Oscars go back to the way they did it in the beginning, where the winners were announced en masse beforehand, and the ceremony was merely to hand out the awards.  I personally hate the competitiveness aspect of it, and think it’s undignified to ask people to come to the…

It says a lot about Final Fantasy that you could’ve easily convinced me the chicken was an NPC.

On the tabletop, my group is still doing our (very loosely based on) Rime of the Frostmaiden Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition campaign via Zoom and Foundry VTT. Last night’s session went spectacularly well for my Barbarian, and he didn’t even have to rage. We’re currently in Ysgard and for convoluted reasons Chernobog…

Been playing a lot of Gnosia. I think I’ve unlocked most of the game features so far, but I’m still missing a lot of the special actions. It’s mostly enjoyable, but I’m only roughly 1/6 of the way through; I hope some new wrinkles get added soon, or else it’s going to be a slog.

I’ve been playing the ever-living fuck out of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn this week. Since I’m close to the end game portion of the base game’s A Realm Reborn storyline (AKA Path 2.0), so this post will likely contain spoilers for that.

Someone walks up to you and says “I will give you a cookie if you look up that girl’s skirt”.

You seem hung up on people “choosing” to do things and that somehow being a marker for judging them as people, but you don’t seem to recognize that half the point of playing a video game is to have the freedom to safely explore things you wouldn’t do in real life, by doing them virtually.

I agree with you. And thanks for writing about it, Mike.

Nah, I don’t believe that take at all. First of all, the titles that released were definitely of smaller budget than there home counterparts. (Compare Golden Abyss to UC3 which dropped a few months earlier. The multiplayer, the varied environments etc.) Plus, this wouldn’t have been a shock. They would have known the…

It was the memory cards that killed it. Had Sony used a standardized storage system and just coasted on software sales, they’d still be making games for it if not prepping for the launch of the Vita 2. Instead, they went the proprietary route with jacked up prices and no one bought into it.

The console launched in the west in 2012. The last retail 1st party game (Freedom Wars) released in 2014. When you consider development time, they must have internally made the decision to stop making Vita games sometime in the first, 12-18 months?

It still baffles me that Universal interfered so heavily with a project they were spending so little on, and which they ended up just dumping anyway. It makes a little more sense when you read that nobody at Best Brains really knew how to run interference, but a damn shame. Like they had to cut a lot out of the movie…

Everything else aside, This Island Earth just wasn’t a great choice, because Mike era comedy—especially during the Sci-Fi run—just didn’t work so well with earnest, well-intentioned 1950s movies. Mike period humor just got progressively meaner as the show went on and worked best with hateful shit* like Merlin or…

His Thundercats opening is the best....

Still playing Persona 5 Strikers. Just finished Jail #2. Still enjoying it. Not much more to say.