One thing that a lot of people have (sensibly) pointed out is that the ending isn’t completely jarring..... if you’ve done a few very specific things. Apparently there’s a side quest in the Whitetail Mountains that involves breaking the cult’s control of incoming radio frequencies, and if you complete that mission,…

I have one more complaint: They send you on a “deprogramming” mission in which the music they use to fix the guy is… a Vines song. Played through loudspeakers. On repeat. I thought the point was to *stop* the torture.

Some other FC5 things:

Can I also just complain about how the game runs hot and cold in terms of literally not letting you go 100 yards in an occupied territory without running into a new emergent quest, and then when you liberate the region, stop running into anything at all?

I played through the game and man... it is really hard to overstate how thoroughly they botched the job here. It reminds me a lot of Fallout 4, which in much the same way improved on its predecessors’ combat (though FC5 is less of a leap) but regressed in nearly every other aspect of gameplay, which I say as someone…

Around my house we call this show “Ready Player One but for film majors”

Wouldn’t be the first time - the original concepts for Bioshock Infinite had Comstock as a straight up confederate, but 2K had him wrapped up in fuzzy, placeless quasi-xtianity

I’m pretty sure the character you play is an FBI agent.

There’s more PREY coming at some point this year, so that’s good.

Up til this point, computer hardware’s actually been a rare example of free markets benefiting consumers - big-name rivalries like AMD / Intel or Nvidia / Radeon actually drove prices down in their competition. But the best way to play the crypto con is to build a farm of mining PCs where electricity is cheap, so you…

Like, forget dropping a grand on a computer. If you want a graphics card that can so much as look at a VR setup without bursting into flames, you’re spending a grand on that alone.

Fun as VR might be, it’s about as close to dead as a scene gets so long as the bitcoin mining racket doubles or even triples the prices of consumer GPUs on the open market. PSVR is basically the only offering that can survive, and that’s assuming Sony protects their supply of tech from the price hikes, which is no…

The splatter-happy garage rock side of Pop is a pretty small one all told, he’s always been way more about early rock and roll and (especially) blues. He started the Stooges after apprenticing as a drummer in the old guard Chicago scene and being told that he needed to find his own white man blues.

Trainspotting definitely had an effect on my 40-something dad, I stole the CD from him and then I became an Iggy Pop obsessive. Still haven’t seen the movie.

Sleep No More has been the future of marketing for about 5 years now

I definitely agree that they were weirdly neutral about Dorothy. Trish makes up with her in the end and I’m supposed to feel good about that?

This seasons had its ups and downs and downs bent into ups by the sheer willpower of the actors. Ultimately, I didn’t find that they cashed the check they wrote with Trish’s plot, erratic as it was. Trish / Jessica was a well-played and lived-in relationship, and its dissolution robs the show of its heart going…

The Malcolm inhaler bit was convincing as a betrayal of Malcolm by Trish (giving a recovering addict a substance she knows is addictive) but I can’t remember if their break comes before or after she recruits him to find Malus. If it’s after that’s pretty contrived.

Trish is a real problem this season. There’s a lot going on with her but it doesn’t really congeal into a gestalt character.

I watched the entirety of S1 recently and it ended up feeling pretty empty. The Wire and Mad Men established that a firm grasp of theme that resonates between multiple plots is what makes good TV smart, but then you get a show like Sneaky Pete which has that - everything is about facades and failing family ties and…