It doesn’t quite matter how Alyx sells, it matters if it sells Valve VR kits. That being said it’s going to sell well, and already has—especially for a VR game that requires a gaming PC. Then we wait for 9th gen console hardware and PS5/XX VR. Then this will be genuinely profitable game.

The guy might well be an enthusiast. Sure, those aren’t “good” cars, but they are all weird and different from your average boring car. A lot of enthusiasts appreciate cars that are for one reason or another objectively “bad” just because they did something notable or different whether it is styling or features or…

His rant at hammerlock about the puzzle solving is one of my favorite lines of dialogue in the game

Volvo still makes these today.  Called “cross country” models.

Easy to say until it’s you.

Every word comes with baggage for someone. Might as well stop talking to each other.

Yeah, I mean the thing is up until recently the hate was deserved. Turns out when you give people good games, and easy ways to play games they may have missed, people respond to that. Game Pass continues to be one of the best deals in gaming period, just from what they’ve announced there are more games I want to play…

It’s a gorgeous car.  That’s about it.  If it was gasoline-only, badged as a Volvo, and cost $40k, I’d say it was the best thing since the 242.

People are used to the run and gun with no realism. Obviously the author is. It also works well for people that need a quick fix or don't have a group to play with. I'd say that's the majority of players. If it wasn't, every game would be more like Arma. 

I think the solution is less to drive something that looks like something your passengers would drive, and more to drive something a cool pilot dude would fly. Any of the following, gently used, come in below your price point.

Volvo S80 V8? 

Yeah, I get that. Vincent was definitely stuck and immature, but since the game was from his point of view, it ended up veering a bit more into portraying Katherine as a lot more shrill than what was actually going on imo. I’d be interested to see what I think of the game nowadays, but after hearing what happened with…

I picked it up again after not finishing it when it came out, and while everyone is even more grating than before, I didn’t take Katherine that way. I mean, everyone is written to be the worst and (I’m still not done) but we do come in media res—I get the sense she’s been trying to have the conversations with him a…

You’ll have to pry my 120 gig Microsoft Zune, with its sweet sweet almost-analog-sounding amplifier, out of my substantially less warm and not alive hands. Amazingly, there are still quite a few out there for sale

You’ll have to pry my 120 gig Microsoft Zune, with its sweet sweet almost-analog-sounding amplifier, out of my…

That Yamaha V8 engine sounds excellent when it is straight-piped!

Easy NP, but the below video really helps. This is a S80, but same engine.

NP all day long - these are some fairly capable all-road/off-road vehicles. Not in the rock-crawling sense, but in the real world sense. Further, it has a ridiculous safety profile which has some value.

“Does Blizzard know at all how to NOT stereotype people?” asked one fan. “A crazy/scary Australian, a ‘stupid’ American cowboy, an uptight Japanese man, a South Korean girl that’s a pro at video games, and now Sigma. Mental illness shouldn’t be represented like this.”

They might laugh, but they’ll also be choking at the same time. What nobody’s really saying here is that the planet cannot handle both India and China developing a middle class in the same wasteful ways that the US did it.

That was the game I was thinking of. Same shit, different shoe, honestly. Courting controversy for the sake of controversy does not an engaging experience make.