Fun note: I got the Prizm really soon after it was released and was “randomly” selected by Anker to receive a free tripod along with my purchase. It’s a little skeezy because they added “hey, we love reviews and photos but please keep your extra special gift between us”, but they surely didn’t legally compel me to…

Fun note: I got the Prizm really soon after it was released and was “randomly” selected by Anker to receive a free…

My heart will always be with the guy with bullet proof legs.

Barely tangentially related musing: I wonder if anosmics can experience phantosmia from brain injuries or oncoming migraines or whatever.

I binged all of these videos hard a couple of months ago. I’m so glad he’s been branching from the original Disney focus, because there’s some really valuable work being done here. Amidst that binge I also ran across Offhand Disney, who is quite a bit less documentarian, but fun to watch nonetheless. As a kid who…

If there’s two things reddit can’t stand, it’s entitled snowflakes and video games that don’t look exactly like promotional material that was produced long before a game was finished and tailored to look as good as possible for a game they have neither payed for yet nor played.

Grew up in the Springs and this is pretty unsurprising. God that city sucks.

Pac-Man CE 2. It took less than one level for me to realize that they had profoundly, profoundly fucked up everything that made CE and DX not only great, but legitimately masterful in terms of utterly reinventing a game that is so old and iconic that it’s pretty much an axiom of game design.

I’m a bit younger so I’m not quite in the same boat, but honestly, part of the appeal of LEGO (And a lot of Scandinavian design IMO) is its timelessness. In other words, they fit so perfectly into the prototypical idea of a toy figure in my head that I’d have a hard time imagining a time when they didn’t exist in the…

Ugh. This just showed up super cheap used at my FLGS but I thoroughly doubt I can muster the group required to have the best experience with the game.

Editor: There’s nothing listed under the upcoming games my friend.

Editor: There’s nothing listed under the upcoming games my friend.

1000 times this. Buy an Eneloop kit the next time ya’ll run a story pointing out a deal on them OR just get Amazon’s rechargeables, which many suspect are rebranded Eneloops if you get the right ones. Second only to a bidet in terms of life changing purchase.

Yeah. I guess I’m less faulting anyone for finding it funny, you do you, more that, like, it seems to be playing both ends against the ethical middle if one distributor is making both the thing and the questionably tasteful parody of the thing. Neither show intrinsically bothers me (I only watched 1 ep of American…

Was anyone else mildly skeezed out by Netflix releasing a wildly popular crime documentary like Making a Murderer about, like, real people dying, then not too long after releasing a comedy that matches it in style enough to almost make it parodic? Maybe I’m being sensitive, but it always seemed kind of crass to me.

I know it’s a giant thing that took the world by storm, but jeez, in 10-15 years how would you even tell what game this was from some of these promo shots if the PUBG watermark wasn’t on there? Maybe I’ve being hyperbolic, but I’m not sure if I could reliably differentiate that second image from similar images produce…

Eh, in this case it’s because someone noticed the similarity, but my guess is that he was playing the odds (successfully for a long time) that most game writing is both pretty high volume and relatively disposable*, at least when it comes to reviews on major sites. Plus the effort to monitor this manually is probably…

That Earthworm Jim dig is choice, and delightfully multivalent considering what a giant sack of shit Doug TenNapel is.

Reason #124623 I wish I understood spoken Japanese better than I do: The descriptive audio on Terrace House is apparently _incredible_ since it’s just the hosts’ commentary while they’re watching. I hear tell that it makes it an entirely new show.

Seems so. I haven’t personally seen him at any conventions (I go to all the US PAXes) but am adjacent enough to the industry to have heard from at least a few folks that he has been popping up now and again. His Tetris video has def been fairly popular though (~6m views), and the number of totally oblivious comments…

I’d love to think that his career is over, then I look at the traction Nick Robinson is getting on youtube and hear the scuttlebutt about him showing up at conventions and my eye starts to twitch.

Personally, I can sometimes see and feel a difference but 9 times out of 10 don’t actually care. I get why people do, but I rarely play games... well enough?... to perceive it having any impact on how I play. Granted if Super Meat Boy or Celeste tanked on me I might feel differently but for whatever reason it has…