I’d be so curious to visit the alternate timeline where the Wii U sold decently (probably with a different name) and got a sleeker revised model along the lines of the DS Lite, because I feel like so many issues with the system are based around the object itself. But a system with that concept with industrial design…

We had the same experience - so many evening car trips, and so many AA batteries lost to those shitty snake lights. It’s too bad the US never got the Game Boy Light (literally just a Pocket with a backlight), I never liked the Color’s screen palette so it would have been a great B&W option instead.

This is probably a controversial take, but...OG Game Boy (The Brick). Don’t get me wrong, I probably used mine for literally thousands of hours over countless replays of Pokemon Blue, Yellow, and Gold, but beyond that series and Link’s Awakening, worthwhile games were surprisingly few and far between for a system that…

I know, it seems...surprisingly underwhelming stylistically? Especially for the long-awaited sequel to such a trailblazing and stylish game. The whole time I was wishing it was taking more notes and cues from Persona 5.

Between these issues, the apparent UI quirks and inefficiencies for even simple tasks, the coil whine, the dearth of truly next gen games, and the constant supply issues, (as well as, you know, the global economic depression and pandemic) it really feels like the PS5 came in extraordinarily hot and would have really…

“Keep your politics out of coverage of my military game depicting historical fiction centered around the political machinations of a decades long political conflict between the world’s two main political superpowers, which depicts the political chief of one of those superpowers front and center in the plot and…

*Sony fanbois who roasted me in the comments months ago when I expressed skepticism that loading times were going to abruptly be a thing of the past just because there’s an SSD now* “HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS MAGIC MACHINE LOADS A MEDIOCRE LOOKING CEL-SHADED LAST GEN GAME IN JUST UNDER A MINUTE!”

I loved Dragon Quest XI, but (vague spoilers ahead) there’s a point about ~60 hours in that feels like a very natural and cathartic end to the story - after a major loss, you rally your group and defeat the big bad through the power of friendship, and it’s great. But then...the game just keeps going. And it does two…

God yes. Even worse, you could tell the writers thought they were so fucking clever when you were going through the endgame time loop.

I played the shit out of Marvel's Super Heroes vs Street Fighter. It's absolutely broken, but I just loved how over the top it was. 

It has to be said...I WANNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE!

It’s hard to say for sure, and I’m certain that far more intelligent people than me will spend the next few years asking what happened. My personal theory focuses around this: the GOP, a radically reactionary party whose electorate has zero apparent interest in policy in favor of just ‘stay in power, fuck the libs’,…

I would also add another point - is there a game there you desperately want to play now and can’t play elsewhere? For some people, that will be Demon’s Souls, but for me, that’s quite a ways off in the future, most likely God of War Ragnarok or FFXVI (assuming those two don’t also blend into PS4 like the other launch…

Or at the very least Prime Trilogy to hold us over.

I always have Gmail and Calendar open as my first two tabs, and strangely enough, the Gmail icon is currently showing the classic red and white design while the Calendar is the overdesigned new nonsense that’s harder to spot at a glance. I’m confused by this, but Google is nothing if not consistently inconsistent.

At first I expected the Series S to be spared from the file size increase, since it shouldn’t need 4k and other ultra high quality assets. But apparently that’s not the case? Surprising if so. Hopefully Microsoft and publishers are able to differentiate between X and S files in order to prevent wasted file space and…

Based on both the majority of US history and the current administration, it’s historically accurate.

So I’m really curious what happens if you try to play the Syndicate disc in a PS5 - does the game launch but run terribly or with some level of bugginess? Or will Sony implement a blacklist of games that aren’t allowed to launch? (The PS TV functioned this way with a very restrictive list of games, some of which were…

“Visit the in-game store, an incredibly detailed recreation of a rural Walmart, to upgrade your weapons and loadout in your crusade against tyrannical government rule and encroaching socialism using funds from your weekly unemployment check! Fight conservative bias on social media by integrating your Facebook account…

In addition to the gross and awful abuse at the company, I’m also disgusted with the political underpinnings that have come to define a big chunk of their output in the past few years, especially in Far Cry and the Tom Clancy games. Those two series push forward some dangerous and disturbing ideologies without ever…