thom

Remember to be considerate tonight while trick-or-treating!

i've seen more and more people dissatisfied with the omnipresence of the smash burger and yet i see none offering an alternative that's not a regression to the overly plump steakhouse burgers that necessitated its smashing. just a lot of grousing with no new ideas. very curious!

the documented problem with the gaming audience is that they buy one AAA game, one live service game and a single indie game that goes viral every year. with the decimation of the press and the ballooning of game sizes the idea of a generalist gamer that tries new things is basically non-existent

there are lots of problems with the gaming audience, and much we can blame them for. they're creatively incurious, actively aggressive towards developers, and the entire medium has been captured by an insane culture war for over a decade. if anything they are too willing to spend 100 dollars

A lot of good games and peoples' careers died on the altar of this frankly impossible goal and players should be more mad about this than they'll probably express.
They'll feel it tho when Satya and Amy jettison Xbox en total to make room for more openai bullshit.

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

A samurai revenge plot where the MC learns over 80 hours of collecting trinkets, hunting bounties, and doing artsy side quests, that revenge isn't the end all be all? Just too predictable.
Glad folks are having fun with it but good lord can we do something different?

hello we are not formally pals but i really enjoy grassy valley and your posts in general 🫡

I think my thing with the big PlayStation games is that they are built for Cool but going for Important and while the two are not mutually exclusive there are Considerations that must be made.

we live in an increasingly fake and stupid world thats so disconnected from reality that its basically pointless arguing on all the individual points it'll drive you insane so i will simply say. lol

call of duty guys complaining about how visually incoherent cod is rule because they are technically correct. sucks that every big game is a heavily merchandised IP soup with microtransaction collabs. however i cant side with them when they're like my OPERATOR fantasy is RUINED when i see MEGATRON

people are acting like AI is out here doing the things AI companies say they will do one day. it is not! the disruption has not happened! Industries being completely gutted because carnival barkers told CEOs their magic 8 ball will do everything for them

"wow conservatives dont get [media] at all!"

you fool. they have honed their ideology until it has become a weapon which cleaves reality. they are husks animated by naught but blind, furious hate and you titter about them not understanding superman or rage against the machine

still crashing/performance issues or what happen? :(

is koopa your go-to because you do give koopa energy

i am far too stupid to be weighing in on this but one thing i would stress is that gaming media’s collapse wasn’t an inevitable fact of life. it’s the result of very stupid people making decisions they could have just as easily not made

YouTube video by Conner O'Malley Pipe rock theory

I've watched "pipe rock theory" a couple times now. O'Malley and collaborators are making some of the most interesting stuff going right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzuj...

been playing it for the first time after having played FF1 (also for the first time) earlier this year. having a lot of fun! the gameplay is expansive and satisfying but it’s amazing to actually be invested in the story/lore and having jack always say “no lore please. i don’t care. kill chaos.”