I think there was a lot of fair criticism of the gulf between what the games promised and what they delivered. I just happened to not be too concerned by the former and was thoroughly satisfied with the latter.

Fable is one of those series that every single criticism I’ve ever heard is completely accurate and I love it. Something about the tone and aesthetic bull rushes past every single game play lie and shortcoming.

I bought JSR HD when it came out having only played JSRF, and figured in the absence of that game, this would have to do. The timer and the detective who shows up to fire rounds at you completely killed the vibe for me. I may be misremembering a lot of JSRF, since I haven’t played it nearly two decades, but I remember…

Man, slide that sucker into a freezer bag if yer going to be out out on a floaty; equilibrium shot from an afternoon of luke-warm modelos.

If I saw that movie at nine it would have traumatized me. But thematically, at least, a lot of adults didn’t understand it either. It’s taken a surprising number of years for the satire to come into focus.

Give ‘em hell, Rico.

Starship Troopers is an amazing movie, David Roth is an incredible writer and Great Hills Partners are among the biggest group of fart-huffing, self-satisfied morons in a fetid sea of private equity vultures.

I just got back from camping the last couple of days. The first night as we were walking through the camp, I saw through an RV window someone playing Fortnite in a massive 40” screen.

In my snotty, high school proto-pop culture critic years, I was always infuriated how the same dirtbags this show was making fun of were the ones who embraced it the most.

Both accurate and probably why it’s my favorite of the series.

Both accurate and probably why it’s my favorite of the series.

Cruz is just looking for a platform that allows him to promote the underground fighting ring he’s built around Jim Jordan.

I don’t understand Twitch. It’s like someone opened a garbage store, then one day decided, “I can’t have all this trash lying around here!”

I’ve already discussed my experiences with Control here (lot of fantastic flavor unsupported by generic kill room game play; hoping for a weirder sequel). But I wrote about all that before finishing the game, which leaves one last aspect of the game that I want to discuss.

For sure.

I would say yes, exactly like that.

The internet has fashioned such a bizarre exquisite corpse from our pop culture.

Firstly, we don’t know what shape this will ultimately take, so we don’t know if it will be poorly implemented or not. I highly doubt the narrative flavor of individual species will be eradicated in the name of some vague sense of parity.

Alignments work if you limit yourself to a Star Wars level of character depth and scope.

I never knew the art direction had supporters. I thought we all enjoyed it despite the lackluster visual style.