*laughs maniacally* THAT’S NOT EVEN MY FINAL FORM

That’s the estimated number of hours per HLTB, which is how I track the rough % completion. And that’s the issue, they’re all great games! How do you prioritize between Dark Souls and Hollow Knight? Or Xenoblade and Xenogears?

I’ve made that same goal! I have lists! I’ve prioritized! And then my dumb monkey brain is like “today was another stressful day, maybe I should play Chrono Trigger again because I know that game inside and out and the unknown is stressful” instead of “man, I’m really enjoying Origami King, let’s keep rolling on…

My portfolio’s mainly a mix of different stock market and bond ETFs that seemed to be the recommendation for baby’s first portfolio when I started this, as well as some more specialized stocks I’ve picked out recently in sustainability and technology. This graph is returns / losses from the past three years. Like I…

Due to the anxiety of everything in the world, I’ve had an incredibly hard time sticking to one game long enough to finish it, leading my ‘currently playing’ list to become enormous over the past year. I’ve made a conscious effort to be better about that, so I’m prioritizing a couple of short-ish games that I’ve been…

I’m sorry to hear all that, it sucks that you’re in that position. I think I can understand the feeling. For the last few years my industry got to the point where you were basically required to have a masters degree to get a decent job (luckily I do), but as soon as the pandemic hit the job postings had the same job…

I think there’s a huge difference between “hey, this orange man is also a mouth breathing racist who hates logic, education, and democrats, let’s try some chaos on for size because all of my problems are the result of brown people” and “jesus, you know guys, this whole capitalism thing seemed like a good idea a long…

I feel so cynical and nihilistic watching the wealthy class clutch their pearls at another class creating market volatility. I graduated in 2011, in the middle of a “once in a lifetime” global recession that caused my industry to shrink by 30-40%, caused by the wealthy class pulling the levers of the world economy…

Reddit investors in a week: “Hi, I bought this stock for $400 last week and I’d like to sell it now.”
Stock Market: “That’s worth $1 in cash or $3 in store credit.”

Nintendo, give this madman (or madwoman) a job! I hadn’t realized “old Zelda games in the BOTW engine” was going to be so exciting to me, but apparently so!

I find it darkly funny that the clearest highlight of how nonsensical the stock market is compared to real life, after almost a year of record market highs while the economy itself has been in the fucking shitter, is a bunch of reddit memelords thinking they’re really showing the world who’s boss by making Gamestop’s…

I had the same feeling...part of it seemed to be the epic soundtrack and cinematography, which really clashed with the comic-style BOING graphics popping up after some attacks as well as quirky character lines like CRUSHING IT. Certainly makes it hard to gauge what the final tone will be. 

My parents oscillated wildly on their stance and policies on gaming over the course of our childhood. When I was five and my brother was three, they bought a SNES with Super Mario World allegedly for us, but the evidence wasn’t always on their side (they were very young parents, and had spent their own recent youths…

I was super hyped for XV when it released, and went through the strange rollercoaster of an experience as we all realized it was half finished and incredibly uneven, so I’m hoping you’ll have a much better experience! That being said, even as janky and half-baked as it was, there are three or four quiet emotional…

I’ve been working hard and paying extra on my student loans for my undergrad and masters degrees since 2011, also a mix of private and federal loans (a bit more than yours). I understand that even though I’m mostly paid through mine and certainly wish that I hadn’t spent my career so far putting a large chunk of my…

That wasn’t part of the original question, and I’m not sure it’s relevant. I only brought up Sony to point out that consoles in general have been fading from relevance in Japan for years.

I’m also bummed that Sakaguchi hasn’t worked on more high profile games, but to be fair: he left Square because of his hugely ambitious miscalculation of making a blockbuster movie; Lost Odyssey was critically popular but I’m not sure it sold well, especially in Japan where Xbox is a nonentity; meanwhile, his other…

I was also surprised this wasn’t mentioned, but having tried streaming from PS4 to my PC on the same network a few times with godawful results...I’m not sure how much better it would be. 

Okay, even in the Before Times this article would be tone-deaf and ridiculous, but right now? Why are the youths spending all of their times indoor on screens? Because our government and the surrounding systems all catastrophically failed to contain a pandemic, resulting in a death toll that has matched our casualties…

...and then run for office!