“But some parents are uneasy with the level of violence in the most popular titles in the genre; even in a cartoonish game like Fortnite, players are encouraged to shoot one another with bazookas.”

“Remember that anyone you’re flirting with is probably feeling just as uncomfortable as you are.”

Mind = blown.

One of my biggest beefs with Cities: Skylines is that Colossal Order never quite got all the way over their need to make Cities In Motion 3 out of it. This gets both less annoying and more annoying to the same degree and for the same reasons if you have the (very necessary) Mass Transit DLC. On the one hand, it does…

It’s got a slightly cartoony look and feel to it—pitchers get knocked out of games by line drives, and there are tracer trails on batted and thrown balls visually—but the underlying baseball simulation is very solid, one of the best I’ve played since MVP Baseball 2005 way back on the PS2.

“This was likely an indicator that people were placing orders for the entire household, rather than just themselves as they commuted to the office—or that they were ordering extra in order to have leftovers, to minimize the amount of trips outside the home. Or hey, maybe both!”

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, I say.

Had a some-folks-can’t-catch-a-break moment earlier this week in Super Mega Baseball 3.

“(x) number of people found this extremely unhelpful joke/meme review helpful”

Is there (or will there be) an audiobook? Might have to drop an Audible credit on it.

First class was at 7:35 in the morning. It was inhuman. Contrary to the “kids, don’t do drugs” message one normally gives to youth, I say without a hint of irony that I wouldn’t be a high school graduate without amphetamines.

I had an ice cream maker once.

“None” is the correct answer. Good job, Japan.

“which allegedly burned a hole through the middle of his tongue.”

My mind instantly wandered to the possibilities for cities in American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2.

Can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. Let the burnination roll!

Shit costs what it costs. If you’ve got to raise prices to keep your business open, raise prices. It ain’t like customers have a lot of other options since no business in its right mind will operate at a loss for long.

Pfft. Show me bear cavalry and then we’ll be getting somewhere.

This is part of the problem with “moral choice” in gaming more generally. It’s the same reason I have never, not once, killed Paarthurnax in Skyrim. Or blown up Megaton in Fallout 3. Or sided with Caesar’s Legion (except for one time to get the achievement) in Fallout: New Vegas. Or done any other sort of dog-kicking…

“twelve Republican-led states”