I’m nowhere near pro when it comes to photos but I still wanted to share some of my favorites from this year.

It’s a bit ironic that a character from a game where the fight happened exclusively inside a boundary gets ported to another game where the fight’s goal is pushing their opponent outside of boundary.

Fuck yeah, Goemon!

I am so damn excited for Return of the Obra Dinn after hearing it raved about for months on Splitscreen.

I’m already seeing the comments, so let’s be clear about something here:

“Cancel Culture” did not kill Alec Holowka. We don’t yet have the full picture of how he died, but it sounds as if he died by suicide, and had been suffering from a host of psychological and personal difficulties prior to that final, tragic act.

No…

As a 10 year running CGI Lighting/Compositor Lead and rendering veteran, I will say that after further examination I can observe the following details that make this look so much like a game:

-Sharpening filter tightening edges which adds a strong crispness/polygonal flatness to edges (lack of cheek fuzz on their faces)

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As for probably many, really difficult question with several answers. I also realize my recency bias as the games that sprung to my mind are more recent.

Millions of word trademarks (word marks) exist. They’re limited to (protectable for) a specific commercial purpose, usually geographically as well. The more generic the mark, the harder it is to protect in court.

I get that not everyone (a) understands or (b) agrees with what, say, feminists do all the time. But there’s a distinct difference between a good faith attempt to engage and celebrating one’s ignorance:

I grew up in Puerto Rico. I know many other people from Spanish-speaking countries, friends and family, and the word is being used more and more globally and within academic circles as a way to be more inclusive.

Ridiculous. Privacy is important period for everyone. These journalists get death threats for no reason as is. Stop putting zero value on privacy.  You don't have to be guilty of something to be entitled to it.

Can we not over analyze every stupid thing that happens through the lens of who could feasibly find offense in it?

You’re creating an issue out of something that wasn’t intentionally trying to do anything harmful.

While I support their decision to do what makes sense for their company, especially financially, it felt like their counterarguments were mixed between easy lob shots and fraught fallacies:

To be honest its just the way THEY do Switch versions, which is usually least possible effort

Despite the shenanigans, a middle-aged woman has become accepted and celebrated in a medium that tends to be indifferent, if not downright hostile to those that are not young and beautiful. Yes, I see that as a positive thing.

Eh, I can’t read anything undocked because the text is small as shit. Eh...

If you have a household income of a quarter of a million American dollars every year, you can afford shit. Fuck off.

Bethesda also teased private servers coming to the game “sooner than you think.” What does that mean? I have no idea. I didn’t expect them anytime soon, so that really doesn’t mean anything to me. But who knows, maybe next month private servers will be supported in Fallout 76? But probably not.

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