Simon May

Windows 11 has been nothing but problems for me, including crashing and completely corrupting itself. I didn't realise how many troubleshooting tools MS took away from us until now (did you know you can't boot directly into safe mode anymore?)

This one is way funnier though

That just the way things have been in the AAA space since the 360 era, although PlayStation has doubled down on it more than others.

I saw Anora last night. While I really did enjoy it (I did not expect it to be so funny) I have a hard time seeing it as the best film of 2024. I heard a lot of comparisons to Uncut Gems before I saw it and I don't think that comparison does it any favours.

Elden Ring, the man was running with 2 very similar shields in the same hand. All that was make his rolling slower for no benefit.

First grandma poked us on Facebook, now she can flash us on flashes.

I don't think data theft and profit motive of US companies are good reasons to just hand your data directly to the CCP. At least make them work for it.

Unfortunately, social media is the primary source of news for a lot of people, especially millennials and gen z. It's why misinformation is so rampant these days and joining an app literally run by the CCP isn't going to fix that, it will probably only make it worse.

This still feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face. But I also think the amount of people actually moving from tiktok to rednote is a pretty small amount of the overall tiktok userbase, it's just the media making a bigger deal out of it than is warranted.

hey gamers, do me a favor

next time you feel compelled to utter the phrase "lazy developers" - try saying "greedy corporate executives" instead

just take it for a spin, see how it feels

We aren't on twitter. We left the shit app because of exactly what you said. So why would you go to another shit app if you know it does exactly what the other shit app you left did. That makes no sense.

Uh I think you stole my cat.

Likewise when a game keeps sending me notifications to play. It just reminds me to uninstall.

Photos of my new tattoo, jigsaw puzzle pieces wrapped around my forearm.

New year, new tattoo

We always try to keep the selections pretty diverse, so even the ones we didn't like unusually had something interesting to offer. It has been really funny how often we all end up hating some really beloved games.

I started a gaming "book club" with a few friends about a year ago for this reason. So far, there's been quite a few well regarded games that we all thought were pretty bad, but being able to discuss why we feel the way we do has been reality interesting!

Right, it's actually a game where you look for sailors.

Am I crazy or is 7am too early to be mowing lawns?

Balatro is a pretty good game.

I've seen it a lot in promos for local punk gigs which is pretty disheartening.

My parents are literally taking a cruise down to the Antarctic next March.

Just wait until they make it opt-out, most channels won't even know.

I'm pretty sure that's what all the people who wanted Black Panther to win Best Picture thought too.

But it doesn't really work out that way in reality. Valve self publish, but it wouldn't be right to call Counter strike or Dota 2 an indie game. Dave the Diver was developed by Nexon, but it's still considered an indie game by most.

Princess Mononoke

I thought it was generally considered the best game in the series overall?

Hell, most of the time those characters are modelled after real women, which further demonstrates how little time these people have actually spent around real women.

I also think they KNOW they can't release W4 in the same state as Cyberpunk. It undid a lot of goodwill they had earned with W3 and took years for them to earn it back.

Yeah I definitely relate to that. Buy the hot new game but then you don't find the time to finish it before the next big game comes out. Do you finish the current game or move on to the new one so you can be part of the conversation? Video game marketers are very good at their jobs.