I didn’t beat it either, even using the PC mod that gives you a much larger parry window. I got to the big monkey, thought I had him and hit that second stage. Nope. I’ll go back one day...maybe. It’s a compelling game that also causes me to have a moment of anxiety every time I think about it. 

My parents used to go to a fundamentalist Charismatic church and went all in on Ramsey. When they divorced, and my dad took a second mortgage, he had no recent credit so the rate was insane. He could afford it, but it could have been avoided without this idiot's Puritanical take on finance. 

Someone out there needs to make a satirical game where all you do is tag enemies. 

But, to be clear, the player plays no active role in the boardings? If so, what’s the point of this thing?

The Cybertruck will be the one used by Martian Rebels to make technicals with laser machine guns on top when they decide to take their planet back from Elon, who conquers Mars simply to dispose of all the Cybertruck he couldn’t sell. 

Yeah, I hate auxillary cooking appliances. The only ones I find indepensible are my air fryer and the humble toaster. The slow cooker comes out every now and again, but it has not earned a permanent place on the counter. 

In my childhood circles, the NES became the “regular Nintendo” once the SNES was on the scene. 

I had a friend who, straight out of high school, earned a spot as an engineering officer on USN submarines. The Navy was putting him through Georgia Tech for free to prepare him. He really was a borderline prodigy; super smart. He failed out of Tech after his first semester because of an EverQuest obsession and ended…

I remember trying to get DOOM shareware to run on my 90mhz Pentium Win 95 machine. Not knowing a thing about DOS, I was not very successful. 

When I teach The Hero’s Journey concept in my 10th-grade World Literature class, the slideshow I use features Spiderman (2002) as an exemplar of the form. The students inevitably know it as the “old” Spiderman; I feign being upset about this and launch into a soapbox rant about the cultural importance of Tim Burton’s…

The Battle for Atlas game showed that Ubi at least knows how to make proper space-to-surface transversal. 

I made it to the first dungeon before my PS3 finally kicked the bucket, and I transitioned to PC gaming. I should have polished it off when Royale was on GamePass, but redoing the 6-hour intro wasn’t something I was ready for. 

Konami’s 2D classic collections, whether done by M2 (Castlevania Legacy & Advance Collections, Contra Collection) or Digital Eclipse (TMNT Cowabunga Collection), have been excellent. However, I don’t see any evidence that M2 has ever done a remaster; they are more emulation specialists. Digital Eclipse has been…

Armored Core 6. I don’t know what to say about it other than that From has once again raised the bar for second-to-second gameplay. It just feels right. 

Solid Snake and his "fog sticks" come to mind here. 

Yet, when capitalists are racists, the effects of racism are amplified because of the amount of money and influence they have.

I was playing last night and couldn’t get my FPS above 20 despite playing it at 40 maxed out the day before. I then realized that I hadn’t created a game-specific performance profile and was trying to run it at 5W. Turned it back up...perfect. I was playing on my PC with a 6700XT and downscaling from 4k to 1440p, and…

Elon didn't understand what he was signing? I don't doubt it, but he wouldn't admit it. 

Our American obsession with “protecting” our property at the expense of our humanity is sickening.

It’s coming full circle now. Chinese interests are now running factories in the Deep South to cut out export and shipping costs; several of these have been found to use child labor. It’s crazy to think that there are states where wages and working condition regulations are so lacking that a Chinese company would ever f…