Drywall is a pain in the keister to be sure. Took me weeks to finally get the patch I had to put in my hallways done well enough that it wasn’t immediately obvious to anyone looking at it.

All excellent points. I’m fixing my home up for sale right now, and primarily due to budget and time constraints I’ve taken the task on largely by myself, but I also enjoy painting walls, pressure washing pavement, and mending fences, and derive a great deal of satisfaction from these tasks, especially when I get to…

It’s nitpicking is all it is. RPG is, as you said, an extremely broad term now, and there’s plenty of little spots of infighting among different groups of gamers that insist on one definition or the other. Usually people that insist on heavy player choice are fans of old CRPGs or even TTRPGs where it featured heavily,…

Sad, but it kind of goes with the territory. Part of being a content creator is being beholden to the whims of the platform, which isn’t entirely unlike any other kind of employment, at least in my experience, where your job description changes from day to day, and any protest is met with “you wanna be out on your…

I have fallen off the goods-laden wagon back into Pensee, and am firmly rooted back into Recettear, a game I constantly tout to people who ask for a unique gameplay experience. Half the game is you playing as a little girl running a shop out of the bottom floor of your house, haggling over goods and nailing price…

Used to work at a service station. Had to call the cops on a group of young guys calling people over and then exposing themselves to people.

It’s a shame too, since it’s all Sanwa guts. The only people I could see getting hyped for this are super die-hard Capcom FGC types that would use it as wall art between uses.

I mentioned it last time this heap got shunted onto the Commerce team, but if you want a game that is about collecting experiences and doesn’t actively mock you for being born, then I highly recommend Tokaido.

I mentioned it last time this heap got shunted onto the Commerce team, but if you want a game that is about…

I’ve heard lots of horror stories about the turbo models. Nice to hear a different case.

He’d be looking at probably an ‘07 with enough miles on it to start worrying about major repairs. Amazing, gorgeous, quirky vehicles, but cheap is not in their name.

Skip the turbo models for the N/A 3.2, and he should be golden.

Someone said as such upthread, but I wouldn’t be shocked to find out that a Sony exec has a pending metoo moment hanging in the rafters, and this is some token effort to get out in front of it. Really, the only people this is going to affect are low volume niche sellers that have increasingly adapted to less…

Woe betide the first one to try without couching it in a value add such as a season pass. We’re already largely past the era of 60 dollar AAA games, since most everything packs a 30 or 40 dollar season pass that is crucial to the online component, so games are already at least a 90-100 dollar purchase if they have a…

That’s a good point. I have high hopes for them right now. After the last few years of burning bridges and killing off perfectly good IPs, the push to bring in lots of first party talent and rebuild their talent base speaks volumes to them looking forward.

The Yugo was the M57, I believe? It also had the thinner slide serrations. It’s kind of interesting how the base platform was expanded upon and had multiple derivations over the years, including the souped up Hungarian-made Tokagypt 58 with bakelite grips and a properly integrated frame switch safety, far superior to…

You’re dead on about it being a licensed copy. Unsurprisingly, Red China and the former USSR enjoyed a pretty cozy relationship, which included handing off weapon designs for their national armory Norinco to manufacture. It’s why you can find a Chinese clone of almost every common Russian armament. With all that being…

Honestly, Microsoft doesn’t seem to be in that bad of a place. The system has been successful, even if it hasn’t been as successful as the 360, and the Play Anywhere initiative has probably done wonders for their attach rate on first party titles. As long as MS doesn’t pull out a Wii U grade flop on their next…

I recall seeing that Sony originally expected to lose about 60 dollars on every PS4 sold, with the expectation that first party software sales and PS+ subscriptions would make up the difference. If they plan on keeping the Playstation arm of Sony as its most profitable branch, then they’re probably shooting for a…

That is strange. My 213 has the Soviet star, unsurprisingly, but lacks the lettering. Could have just been a design slip from when they were hunting up references for the firearm. Actually, on that same note, the slide serrations are wrong for a Type 54. The deep grooves were changed out for much shallower cuts,…

I actually did. My Norinco 213(9mm variant with an available 7.62x25mm conversion) was only 200 bucks with a spare mag. Unfortunately, finding said 7.62 conversion kit is now like finding a golden hen’s tooth.