He’s always struck me as weirdly bubbly and insincere. If you’ve ever watched This Is The End, part of the joke about his character(he plays himself in the movie, as does everyone else) is that Jay Baruchel can’t stand him and doesn’t trust him because he’s so creepily insincere and talks in overly-positive therapy-spe…

Yes, it’s the bait and switch move he pulls once they’re together that is probably the part that makes it most unacceptable. If you make those stipulations before entering a relationship(if you put them on your Tinder page :) ) then women can make the informed decision to avoid you like they would an Andrew Tate fan…

“ I could say “ I want to punch you in the face every night. That’s what I want in a partner and if you can’t deal with that, it’s your problem.” but that’s not me just stating what I want. That’s manipulative and abusive.”

I think it’s slightly off...or it feels slightly off...to publish text exchanges between yourself and your partner like this. I’d be mortified if my exchanges ever went live and were perused in minute detail, not because I think I’ve behaved badly but just because I’m a private person and I think there has to be a…

Yes, that turned me off so hard I almost gave up on it. It set me up to think the game was going to be lazy and low effort. Also, I love beat em ups - games like GOW, Sekiro(sort of), Bayo, Ninja Gaiden, DMC...these are up there as my favourite games of all time. I still think the parry is the most satisfying thing…

I thought the writing was funny and the guy was obnoxious in a tongue in cheek way. He’s meant to be blithely arrogant, in a cheekily likable kind of way. He’s not particularly likable but he’s not unlikable enough to make me uninstall the game after an hour, that’s for sure. Esp. not after the rave reviews it’s…

Agreed. I gave that a go but something felt slightly off about input timings, and these games really do live and die by the precision of their input timings. If there’s any disagreement between what your brain’s telling you you’re doing and what the game’s telling you you’re doing then the whole thing falls apart.

Absolutely agree. Every time I pan the camera around Midgar post-explosion(I’m pretty early in the game) I feel a slight twinge of regret and annoyance about the lack of photo mode. FFVII is not technically mind-blowing in the way that Uncharted 4 or Horizon ZD were, but it’s still utterly gorgeous - dramatic,…

I’d love to play it. And if a VR setup that did it justice was in the 300-400 range I’d be in there. But the price is not just high it’s genuinely prohibitive for most gamers.

This is bullshit. Just so any non-Brits ignorant of our political parties can understand this, For Britain are not ‘pro-gay’ in any meaningful sense whatsoever, they just use that as a talking point to bash the(admittedly fucking hideous) treatment of gays in Islamic countries. Ditto animal rights.

When I first said it I felt like I was being controversial, but now I think most people accept it as self-evident: the guy was elected president of the most powerful country on earth...out of spite.

“He was dumb as a rock, totally ill-prepared, a disaster in every way. I did consider holding that against him when I interviewed him, but it was almost lunch and I could hear the Spongebob theme tune coming from the TV in my room, so I thought ‘fuck it’ and made him Secretary of Steak or something.”

The Trump Insult-Generation-Algorithm is just a two by two matrix made up of the words ‘lazy’, ‘hell’, ‘dumb’ and ‘rock’.

“I didn’t get it so neither should you / I had to put up with it so you should too”

What were people expecting from a procedurally gen’d game made by a tiny team? That every planet would have a story? That the combat would be better than every AAA game combined?