I really appreciate the parallels drawn here. Folks in very different parts of society have been saying that almost none of the current series of events is new. Democracies have been turned into autocracies before, and our style of government has been on the decline worldwide. Seeing so many of the same features of…

I'll just leave this here:
https://youtu.be/Unr5vcHXy6E

This week has been mostly taken up by the Year of the Rooster event in Overwatch, when I haven't been watching every tennis star from the 2000s take over the Australian Open. It's been the perfect low-investment gaming to wait out my head cold.

Nah, you have to go quite a bit lower than punching someone to bring yourself all the way down to Nazi levels of awfulness. Wishing someone harm for both believing in inferior races and joining an organization that acts violently on those beliefs is just fine. Passive resistance isn't really a viable option when…

Uh oh! How did I know?!

Well this sounds delightfully scary! I completely skipped RE5 and RE6, despite receiving 5 as a gift, and it's awesome to hear that Capcom has found a way to make this series interesting again. The choice to go with quality over quantity for the main antagonists has me curious. I was pretty dang invested in the…

I'll play it! Playdead has certainly earned my trust as a player after Inside. Here's hoping Jensen and Patti don't have a McCartney/Lennon type dynamic, where working together pushed them much further than they could go on their own.

Glad to hear you're as hooked on Overwatch as I am! I've been watching the Your Overwatch videos on my lunch breaks, and they've really helped my understanding of the game mechanics and strategies for my fave heroes. They have a series of "terms to know" videos that'll get you up to speed on both Overwatch-specific…

I'm about to finish that book! Shit is getting nuts!

This week was all about Firewatch! Man, what a game. The interactive text introduction alone was enough to vault it into the rarefied "Games That Brought Me To Tears" echelon of storytelling. The subject was, of course, some really dire stuff to begin with, but I really have to give credit to the writers for giving…

Overwatch:
All folks are welcome
Team up for the greater good
ur main is bad, tho

Y'all mad about something?

Yeah, I was fairly disappointed with their decision to limit multiplayer to a lame balloon-popping mini game. My partner was never going to play Splatoon proper by herself, but I think she would have enjoyed playing it with our friends in some kind of local co-op arrangement. Playing 2v2 or 3v3 matches using two…

Nice. Now if only they sold some sort of wall-mounted rack to keep all those pieces organized and charged…

Perhaps this has been answered elsewhere, but is there a limit to the number of switch controllers you can pair to the console? Everything I've seen so far shows two people using the controllers like Wiimotes, or one person using them hooked together or attached to the screen. Is this like the WiiU, where there's…

Nesting spoiler tags would be my guess.

Yeah it was! I was white-knuckling the controller on every turn, looking for the tiny paths that didn't spell yellow death. I didn't realize you were there on Sunday. What's your WiiU handle? I'm Monk, as one would expect.

Once again, racing alongside the Gameologitariat in the first Mario Kart 8 on the 8th was a blast! We debuted our brand new Discord server, and I'm pretty happy with the results. It's unfortunate that our organizer, @disqus_O9CsmwQErc:disqus, was fighting with both his connection to the tournament and the chat…

I will not be missing Gravity Rush 2, and might even play along with this review! Folks here are right that the combat in GR wasn't especially tight or compelling, but it didn't matter to me, as it's well established that I just loved flying around the city [link]. It sounds like GR2 has flying for days, so my…

No worries! I just saw an update on the latest Overwatch patch, and it sounds like D.Va, Ana, and Roadhog are going to see some considerable changes. D.Va is getting a bit of a damage nerf/buff (more bullets per shot, but they only do 2 damage per bullet instead of 3) and she's going to have a lower armor ratio (a…