Been playing and will probably play quite a bit more of Mount&Blade II: Bannerlord over the weekend. I have two active save files that I’ve been bouncing between depending on the role I’m playing.

Oh, I’m absolutely planning to pick it up fairly soon, possibly as early as this weekend. Probably won’t replace long-haul trucking as my “daily driver” game but I figure there’s plenty of hours to be gained out of it in the short to medium-term future. Enough to justify a purchase, anyway.

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“...is not, however, an endless runner. Crash and Coco run through finite levels to take out a boss at the end, generally by dodging the obstacles they throw while getting close enough to douse them with various crafted concoctions.”

I had a demo disk that came with my PS1 way back in 1997. Ended up completely mastering the first level of Parappa the Rapper, and when I was looking for a racing game to play, bought CART World Series (and played it to hell and back right up until Gran Turismo 2 came out a couple years later and replaced it as my…

“But one day, a ZX Spectrum magazine shipped a full retail game as part of their covertape.”

That game sounds like it flips the bird healthily in the direction of people who play everything like it’s a roguelike and expect permadeath to not end up far more frustrating than fun in games that ain’t got time for that and would far rather you progressively save-scum.

I came to enjoy Fallout 4, but not as the game Bethesda intended me to enjoy. I enjoyed it as a means for execution challenges, special-ruleset runs, “I feel like screwing around and just shooting random shit today” gameplay (same reason I have so many hours in Skyrim, that game’s basically “Cabela’s Medieval European…

“and I suppose a download time point of view as well, that game’s not worth waiting for”

“I had to delete a bunch of other games to make room on the PlayStation 5’s relatively tiny SSD, and even then I was just left with a miniscule amount of space once Fallout 76 took up residence.”

Same reason they may as well have just left the Blades completely out of Skyrim.

At least when they have Ethan write about money, he makes an effort to understand how markets work.

““States require taxes, and I live in California,” he said.”

“a playable metal album”

Hocus pocus alamagocus!

So using Jameis Winston as our template, it means that Houston will make apologies for Watson until they eventually sign Tom Brady?

This looks like a Hershey’s Kiss cookie minus the vomit taste.

Starbucks not the most popular drive-thru option in freaking Washington?

According to today’s New York Times, “40 states” have pledged to meet the Biden administration’s goal of making every adult eligible for a vaccine by May 1, so hopefully this is just one of the many fits-and-starts signs that better times are coming.

“There’s Khloe Kardashian re-posting a photo of her and her sisters wearing all white with the caption “the only KKK to ever let black men in;””