There’s a big difference between being critical of a game, a publisher, or a decision and harassing people. You can dislike the wave of live-service games that have flooded the industry and also feel empathy for the developers making these games and losing their jobs. You can hate the rise of battle passes and…

Stop calling these people “fans”.

The only thing that most vocal minority of people are “fans” of is being terrible online, and the majority of that minority aren’t even playing the shit they’re dogpiling on.

I forget where I found out about it - probably Game Player’s or EGM - but Pepsiman was probably the first time in my life I became truly aware of the fact that there were a lot of really cool games in Japan that weren’t going to come out here, and I’ve been chasing that high ever since. Every time I see this game I…

idk, I’m not even American and the WTC attack feels like a firm dividing line between eras.

Serious “original live action Sonic” vibes here.

My aunt was in the Air Force and was stationed in South Korea around this time, so my cousin Ricky had Pepsiman as one of his games.

His Playstation was also blue, which I later found out was one of the debugging, region-free variants we didn’t get over in the states. I was amazed at how his console could play burned…

Remembering the JP version of Fighting Vipers and seeing how Pepsiman ‘saves’ your character from certain defeat.

Of course there’s fucking stock buy backs.

Another week, another comment from Beefsquatch reminding saying bring back the guillotine. Late stage capitalism is the enemy and shareholders are the cancer 

In other, completely unrelated news:

100%. I work for a fortune 500, and it is the same cycle every time. Our economy is dependent on the myth of unlimited growth. When you lay off all of these people, it frees up reporting cash for shareholders to see. Which means when they actually do have growth, they will need to re-hire anyways and have massive…

Over 6000 layoffs in the video game industry, but how many people have been laid off in the Tech Industry altogether from 2023-present? The fact that companies can just throw their workers away while claiming record profits is ugly capitalism at its finest, but the sheer unchecked accountability for companies to…

No kidding, it’s based on a type of art that pretty famously moves at one frame per existence 

Oh man FINALLY! I started this a while back but it really gave me a headache only being at 60, now that it’s 120fps I can go back to it!

Most of the backlash historically was diehards, the normies didn’t care. Scarlet/Violet is the first one I heard a bunch of normies disgruntled with the game. So I do think the next one is really a test of whether the brand is made of teflon or not, assuming they don’t in fact make an actually good game instead.

“After Palworld, Pokémon Needs To Come Out Swinging”

I'd like to see Pokemon adopt a 2.5d art style. I don't really care for the full 3d thing in this case. Like a Pokemon game in the style of octopath traveller would be perfect. I knew from x and y that 3d Pokemon would be garbage and I stand by that initial assessment for every game since then. Gamefreak resisted…

Have you seen Born on the Fourth of July? Taps? Rain Man? A Few Good Men?

Was Cruise really an auteur’s dream? Or were people just shocked that he’d do something like Magnolia. I haven’t seen a Cruise movie yet that couldn’t have done as well had the lead been given to someone else. And Vanilla Sky is sort of a beautiful mess but I think the character is probably the truest version of…

A movie studio is spending $200M on a sequel to a movie that made over $1B? Stop the presses, I think we have the scoop of the year.