I went through that process while first getting sober and had a similar experience. I reached out to someone who I felt like I treated really terribly in high school (drunk dialing her, leaving messages that I thought were funny at the time, but looking back as an adult I saw as sexually aggressive, bordering on…

I think so too - that’s what I keep telling myself at least. I don’t really remember the early days of GTAO all that well, but I remember people not being all too pleased with it.

Meanwhile, I’m over here in Red Dead Online*, just wanting to buy a fucking cabin.

I was 10 when Barry Sanders retired, and I reacted about the same way I do as an adult when I find out a young celebrity has died. I was all “What? What?? Why? What happened?” It was the most blindsiding moment for me as a sports fan and I still have a clear picture in my mind of the moment my dad told me. I wasn’t…

Definitely. I could never get through a level like this, but man is it fun watching other people.

I really like this rule. Once a batter receives his first pitch, he’s officially a participating player in what’s happening on the field; to me, that means, with the exception of a foul hit (where all play ceases), he should be able to try to go for first whenever the hell he wants after the first pitch. I mean, isn’t…

I have three.

The glowing cubes! Yes, they were awesome. When I first got behind cover I was like, “Oh?? Well alright then, this should be interesting.” It’s always nice when a game catches you off guard like that.

Usually I’m okay with the Joy Con - I played all of BotW either in handheld or in the Joy Con grip - some games just suck with them.

They were “go to this room, kill 1-3 waves of bad guys, go to the next room, rinse, repeat.” Sometimes you press a button. Does this actually change as the story progresses?

For me, it was two things. First, it felt very loose/imprecise to play on the Joy Con. Mario games have always been a little floaty, but making small adjustments on the Joy Con’s little joystick was beyond aggravating (I thought that maze in the Sand Kingdom was going to be the death of me). I also had an issue with…

Just today I was thinking about hopping into BotW for a little bit. Sometimes I just get that itch back, and I’ve been on a big Nintendo kick lately. Basically switching like mad between Mario Kart 8 and Smash Ultimate. But those are very tightly focused games, and sometimes I want to broaden things while maintaining…

I assume you got the mental image of her wantonly dumping a whole bucket’s worth out on me like a movie where it splashes everywhere?

You know, even though shit like this is dumb, there’s a part of me that finds it kind of refreshing when they skip the bullshit. How many times at a sporting event, concert, etc. do you see a few dudes just trash talking each other to try to act tough while their friend “holds them back.” If you’re gonna fight, just…

I went back and replayed them as well. Despite the terribly aged mechanics, I still really loved the first Shenmue. I mostly just stuck to the story but something about that game just pulls me right in.

It certainly looks like a button-mashing tank fest, but I actually think it rides a nice line. On one hand, if you just go in spamming attack, you’re gonna get slammed pretty hard (unless you’re farming a lower level monster for parts, then you can just spam away); on the other, it’s definitely a pretty low-risk game.…

The first things that come to mind to me are the so-called “time savers.” Those seem to fit the description of what’s outlined in items I and II. The quest in AC: Odyssey comes to mind where you have to pay the pirate queen 15,000 coin for her help (or whatever they call it in the game). I’d spent most of my money…

Totally. I sort of assumed Xbox would be going the way of Azure anyway because they’re more-or-less the same company. It just seemed suspect to me initially that they’d make a deal with Sony, but I also read this morning that Nintendo is supposedly looking into it too (not sure how that would work, considering the…

What’s not his doing? I’m not sure I put any of Xbox’s failures on him. It wasn’t my intention to, anyway.

That’s a really good point, I hadn’t considered that. But seeing as video game services have a much more limited scope than music suppliers, I guess the question would come down whether the profits from this contract with Sony would outweigh the edge Xbox would receive. At first glance, it seems Sony not having Azure…