They’re running it on a PC, pre-day 1 performance patch, so any performance metrics are gonna be pretty useless. They tried to get a console code and couldn’t. 

This. Coming to Witcher 3 later I got the benefit of patches, plus mods that got rid of all the fiddly stuff I didn’t want to engage with (mainly encumbrance and weapon degradation).

If you want your reviewers to clap like a seal because the game looks and feels expensive, IGN.com is right there.

This is 2020's version of telling people your favorite Christmas movie is Die Hard.

This hating pineapple on a pizza thing is just a boring internet affectation brought about by the social media hive mind. This is 2020's version of telling people your favorite Christmas movie is Die Hard.

Pineapple on pizza is fucking delicious. You fuckers all hate it because pop culture tells you to hate it.

This looks like a great opportunity to finally give a screen appearance to Flunch Gompo, the beloved Jawa sidekick from the extended universe novels, whose love of milk is second only to the fact that I made him up but if I hadn’t would he really be that out of place?

I didn’t love it. I hated it with every fibre of my being, and I think less of people who do love it.

“If you want more on Ready Player Two...”

I just want him to take a single Creative Writing class. One semester. Hell, a weekend workshop on the fundamentals of storytelling. The man cannot sustain drama without immediately undermining it. He can’t even do basic setup and payoff. Like, hacky sci fi prose is fine; not everyone is William Gibson. But when you…

I second Wolf in White Van. It’s a very good, quite nearly great, novel.

John Darnielle’s Wolf in White Van, kinda sorta maybe. It’s definitely good, and infinitely better than anything Cline has ever foisted on the public.

When did “cultural impact” become this defining metric of success? It’s so weird, I never heard that phrase at all until people started needing a reason to shit on Avatar.

Stink. Stank. Stunk.

Mikklesen had the easiest role in Death Stranding in terms of understanding. He loves his baby in a jar and as a ghost he’s angry at everyone. There’s more to it than that, but in terms of emotional anchors Mikklesen had the easiest and he’s the star attraction in that game both for how comprehensible he is and how…

But steamed hams aren’t steamed, they’re called steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled.

All recognition to Lindsay Ellis’s multi-part video essay on Transformers on this, but it is worth pointing out that Jennifer’s Body is also shat upon because Megan Fox spent the peak of her career getting shat upon for her roles, and absolutely undeservedly. If you watch her character, and her relationship to Shia…

I don’t want to go on too much of a diatribe.

My take:

Object permanence is SOME SHIT- I’m always like, how’d you get over there when I wasn’t watching? Are you telling me things can happen when the camera isn’t on?