We had a dining room in the little 900 square foot house I grew up in, which was a cramped space with a cheap table that “looks fine if you put a nice tablecloth on it”—my mom’s answer to every aspirational problem that our lower-middle-class-at-best existence and her need to feel rich MacGyvered into existence.

Trump was right about one thing.

“the store brand mozzarella sticks might have been from the same manufacturer because their ingredient lists curiously matched up and the sticks had similar flavor profiles.”

“game designer Frank Lantz estimates that “the standard, canonical video game consumer product” takes about 50 hours to play through. (The example provided was Witcher 3.)“

Drunk driving is a very bad idea in real life.

I take my cue from John Montague, the Earl of Sandwich, who is credited with being the first to suss out that bread makes an excellent insulator for the cleanliness of one’s hands whilst at play.

Speaking of games and food, I had three oddball observations whilst playing Dawn of Man over the weekend.

“I’m not here to provide any degree of evidence in support of Congressman Gaetz, only to discredit these baseless allegations,”

Been there, done that, happens all the time when I play PGA Tour 2K21...

Does Hutchinson think that his state has major professional sports?

Bantu languages in general are beautifully euphonic—one reason Swahili keeps showing up in movies and games when the makers want something that “sounds like Africa”.

This totally sounds like something Randy Marsh would do on South Park.

I have never been so angry as to throw or otherwise destroy a video game controller.

“Ours is a very broad and diverse medium that can support many, many different visions while still existing under the “video game” umbrella”

I live in a place with stable internet that goes down just often enough that it spooks me off the idea of ever playing an always-on game with no offline mode. I don’t play anything multiplayer or PvP. If a game I want to play can’t leave me in peace, I’ll buy something else, full stop. This has been true since at…

I live in a place that doesn’t tax my income twice, has a high cost of living, and has much better weather than the hot, humid soup of the Arabian peninsula and isn’t a regressive theocracy.

Steve eating the chocolate in the article: “Wow, this 120-year-old chocolate is so decadent, what a find...”

Good ol’ Dark Souls...a game that I’d probably have been interested in 30 years ago, when I was still in middle school and had gamer friends who brought out the git gud in me. I don’t have the patience to master it these days, so I have to envy those who do.

The bigger issue with me is that my taste in games has shifted over the past five or six years. Somewhere along the way, I lost interest in story-heavy games like RPGs. The closest to a AAA release I’ve gotten to buying has been Crusader Kings III, depending on whether Paradox counts as a AAA publisher/developer (I’d…

You ever get the feeling Skyrim suffers from a bit of a realism problem? I mean, you shoot someone right through the eye socket, you’d think they’d die, but hey, game wants me to do it twice, I’ll do it twice.