Helps that I’m waiting to build a new PC anyways, yeah though I figure I can get a substantial discount by the time 3080s are consistently in stock.

Coming up on four years since release. I called it GotY 2016, and it continues to be one of the very best and most well supported games I’ve played since. Very little comes close.

I think it’s crucial to remember that here we’re specifically talking about people who were “fans” of a game they’d never played. Being a fan of something you’ve personally enjoyed is a very different territory (and can certainly lead some to go to odd places), but this wasn’t that.

Time and again, gamers have championed the cause of “games can be art”. Art critique comes with nuanced and complex analysis that doesn’t always arrive at a clean conclusion of what one is to make the piece of art itself. It picks at flaws in logic, design, quality and so forth in order to give audiences a true sense…

I don’t think fandoms are inherently bad per se. One could technically argue that liking, sharing, and discussing a work inherently makes you a fan of said art.

Of course, the far bigger issue is that a loud proportion of Cyberpunk 2077 purchasers (and indeed any other big-name game) don’t want reviews at all. They want reassurance. They paid for this game nearly two years ago, for whatever illogical reason (“I’m supporting the massive multi-million dollar company!”),…

You don’t. I do. I would love to keep gaming on PC, as I have for the last 8 years. But I don’t know if you are aware, there are only a handful of countries where building a PC for somewhere close to the cost of a console would get you an experience like that console. I don’t live in one of those countries, most of…

I didn’t like the boss fights at all, but honestly I don’t like boss fights much in general unless they’re Zelda/Mario games. The second Rhino fight where you have to charge the engines was annoying and long as hell. I’ll never quite get these boss fights that are just extended sequences of you doing the same exact…

Teal Seam 6

Wow, I thought we were way past the point of a guy in a dress being controversial.

I think you don’t realize how popular Vogue is among members of Delta Force and SEAL Team 6, not to mention how influential boy bands are on these guys. Now our manliest, most elite of men are all going to wear dresses while they silently kill terrorists and cartel bosses. The shame!

What the hell is this? A review of a popular show with a dedicated audience?!?

^{Home Alone and Forrest Gump are both much better than TPM.  They’re watchable at least while TPM is just awkward.}

I think if you’re into pop culture there are only so many franchises you can get into before it starts to feel like work. I still haven’t seen any of the Marvel films. I enjoyed Game of Thrones and even tried to read the books but they just didn’t stick. I loved X-Files as a teen and I guess I can feel smug about that…

Part of why I like The Last Jedi so much is because it harkens back to some things I felt like people missed in the prequels, like the fact that the Jedi of old were so full of hubris as to assume that “balance” means “we win”. By the end of RotS, there technically is balance in the Force. Two Jedi, two Sith, but Obi…

Led by people who were children without fully formed brains in 1999, there is a revisionist movement to posit that the prequels “were actually good.” That Space Jam was “actually good.” That Hocus Pocus was “actually good.” None of these things were actually good. Nothing is actually good. Nothing from your childhood…

Fun Fact: Michael Jackson really wanted to be Jar Jar Binks, and only found out he didn’t get it when Lucas introduced Ahmed Best to him back stage at his concert.

The problem is that George Lucas is a fabulous producer/ideas man, but that’s about as close to the creative process as he should ever be allowed to get. His scripts are almost uniformly terrible, and his direction is average at best.

ESB is the best film in the series precisely because other, more talented people took…

[Jon Lovitz voice] IT STINKS!