Banjo-Kazooie 3

The reason this practice is commonly called “smurfing” comes from two Warcraft II players back in the ‘90s. They were so good at the game that when other players saw their usernames come up in matchmaking, they would often leave to avoid getting crushed.

Oh if that’s the case, I have no idea where you’d find that out. I and other commenters here have clearly been interpreting it as 1-18-2024. I wouldn’t mind a link to whatever you’ve seen with that new information.

In the video he says “Till 1/18!?” at about the halfway point.

If a professional baseball player decides to “slum it” and go play in a Little League game so he can dominate the kids, you’d say it’s obviously bad. This is the same thing, except it’s much easier for someone to pretend to be a kid in an online video game.

I remember when Quest for Glory II had a very positive depiction of Middle Eastern culture, and it was cool but not especially unusual. The proliferation of shooters made us all dumber. (There have been some smart shooters that subverted stereotypes, but the vast majority just reinforce them.)

They always open the gift.

Microsoft is a company that has been evil for 40 years, pretty much since its inception. I’m not even convinced that “sexual harassment lawsuit” was a negative for them. As other commenters pointed out, the scandals probably lowered the price of the acquisition. And no matter what illegal things any company in the US…

“Action figures are too expensive” is such an odd way to think you’re contributing to this discussion.

I don’t like the word “fleeced” because it implies some kind of trickery, which takes too much effort. You could con a billionaire out of $40,000 every day for the rest of his life, and he’d still be rich.

I think it’s location dependent: I shop at Targets in various locations fairly often, and they always feel pretty active. Maybe the one in your area is not doing great.

I love when people give accounting advice on video game blogs! So useful.

I can’t even watch that video once. Is YouTube broken for anyone else, or just me? It pauses every 3 seconds.

It only took a year of Jacobin rule for the counter-revolution to win and the rich to take power again in the French revolution. One of the saddest tales in history, I think.

OK, but honest question: what is OnlyFans without the adult content? Cameo? I honestly don’t get the business model for anyone there who isn’t doing some kind of porn. Even the name of the site suggests a secretive parasocial relationship.

I was going to comment on Kotaku’s article about buggy software, but first I had to refresh the browser three times and wait ten minutes for the comments section to load.

I know 2008 was the last E3 where I was excited to see what would happen, reloading pages on multiple web sites to see the updates. Then I saw Nintendo’s show. 

Interesting article but gets really technical (that’s fine, I’m not the audience).

Q: Are we not men?

I would have thought having a premise that’s just “zombie story #A83 for the 147th time” wouldn’t excite anyone. Go ahead and compare that to premises like “infinite original worlds to explore” like some of the other games you mentioned.