Nomad was a North America exclusive with region lockout, and John Walker was at best a UK exclusive () back in 1995

First, I didn’t say the new tools weren’t good. I said the old tools were easier, in part because the engines they were modding were much simpler.

He was named December 21 and had to assemble a writers’ room over the Christmas holiday: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/golden-globes-2024-host-jo-koy-interview-awards-insider, https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/jo-koy-golden-globes-hosting-job-2024-1235860858/

Yeah, the games that inspired these had more limitations but took advantage of them, and spent more time on polish, and had vastly easier map making and modding tools.

used obviously store bought assets

We get Portillo’s shipped out once a year as a tradition (my wife’s from Chicago) and yes, they absolutely do go for it. She adds a couple tablespoons of giardiniera on top, actually, though she does that with literally everything.

She has a history of being patronizing toward interview subjects. For instance, https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/north-east-born-sky-news-16135146

Every esports and modern movement/speed-heavy FPS. Overwatch, Valorant, Fortnite on the former, Doom 2016/Eternal, Shadow Warrior, Destiny on the latter. The combo of constant fast movement, screen-filling effects, and damage numbers or HUD effects flatlines my brain.

> As Kay attempts one of the biggest heists the galaxy has ever seen

Gith are up quite a bit from launch when they were dead last, which is neat to see change. Curious if it’s in response to people seeing all the gith-specific stuff and rerolling as one.

Gentle nudge toward Ian Worthington (Worthikids), who’s nailed Rankin-Bass-style stop-motion as CG. This is done entirely in Blender with no physical props:

Text rendering in game engines, especially when built for internationalization to work with many types of scripts, is such a hackjob in games that it’s sometimes a miracle when it works at all. Spend a few hours trying to get out-of-the-box Unity to make a scrolling textbox that works with keyboard only,…

Tom Cardy’s been on a regular on a long-running Australian tabletop actual play podcast/live show, Dragon Friends: https://thedragonfriends.com/

Part of why I put it on the managed expectations list. I don’t think many people who played it through think it’s bad, but it’s definitely been divisive. Every FF has some fans who dislike its theme or grind, and the action was fresh, but I don’t see many fans of Clive, the MMO-ish quest system, or the bleak ending,…

> there have been no major disappointments

it’s wild how “good” y’all are at putting spoilers in the headlines of articles where they aren’t wanted, and not putting spoilers in the headlines of articles where they’d save me the click

After I got a scholarship in high school, my parents secretly traded in my hand-me-down 1990 Blazer and spent the $6k they got for it and the college savings they’d built up on a 1998 Dodge Avenger.

Feels like every culture has a “I chopped/ground up a bunch of stuff and threw it in an edible wrapper because I didn’t have a bowl handy, a sandwich of it would be bad, and oh hey is that a pot of boiling oil? I’m gonna fry it at some point”: these, burritos, chimichangas, shawarmas, durums, tantuni, gyros, jianbing,…

“A Jedi, a Witch, or a Warlord,” the kids’ book famously written by Salman Rushdie.