ah yes, the everlasting Dessert For Breakfast genre
Add it to the pile. (He/him/dumb/ass) @bludgeonParagon (Man With A Stick) at cohost and the bird hellsite.Wrote things for @/Gamerspective and @/Geekspective way back in the Cretaceous era. Way too many milquetoast opinions
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ah yes, the everlasting Dessert For Breakfast genre
The other 4 entries were the investigations required to confirm. Very professional work
Maybe it's basic bitch of me and I've forgotten a *really* bad one I liked, but I'm totally Max-Caulfield-pilled on this and I'll die on that hill www.rottentomatoes.com/m/final_fant...
Hey well uh, yknow whatever gets you uh. Bricked up I guess
What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator
Nobody, and I emphasize, nobody should go to the US. If you're games industry, I promise you that there are better events everywhere else.
feels like the perfect opening to spread the word of Katamari to all the unwashed, uncouth masses
luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.
The evil that men do lives after them
It’s funny seeing all the right wing talking heads try and condemn violence, only to be reposted with screenshots of their own calls to violence. Your ethos means nothing if your praxis contradicts it.
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
god he's so pathetic, absolutely spineless content creator constantly pandering to the antiwokes
When the tariffs started rolling around I think the first thing my American bros were stocking up on was the big Kikkoman jugs lol
Well not really, subsurface infections aren't usually major but they will cause reactions (after all, that's basically what acne is like)
by far the craziest thing about working out was one day spontaneously discovering the ability to pec pop and being like "wow so that's what it feels like for those guys huh"
it's kind of a crying shame that they've devolved like this, they used to turn out legitimately fun graphic art for TGS for years and now they can barely be bothered because they need to justify the existence of their slop machine
lmao how poopy is the water
Part of the core impetus for why LiS is great is the decisionmaking by the player driving the narrative, I haven't seen a lot of media that really effectively portrays that feeling of explicitly branching choice and consequence. It'll be super neat if they can pull it off though
The Geoff Keighley cottage industry of evangelizing for games made by solo devs (and their hundred-ish business associates)
Doubly funny when they expect us to believe this character speaks with the gravel of Elias Toufexis' voice
I still remember when this discourse (and a lot of condescending finger wagging) came up a lot around Armored Core 6 and its difficulty walls And then pretty much after all of that, "Difficulty Is Part Of Their Storytelling" From Software released the first patch that immediately nerfed those bosses
I have Silksong installing right now because Game Pass, but my real answer would be Helldivers 2 because their new bigass content drop has been kicking everyone's ass (... I have a mind to put down Umamusume though because it would be funny)
This might actually be no joke the worst case I've seen yet of "I like waffles/So you hate pancakes?" syndrome out of all of the dumbest Twitter spats
If the videogame industry had any taste they'd go by Devil May Cry score ranks instead
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The games industry continues to grow towards ever-longer sounds of screaming and wailing
God, if only.
Me and my Chinese af family use clove like, all the time but mostly for savory uses (lots of long slow braises lol) I think they find the aroma overpowering in baked goods
PREACH
I know these days it's apparently taboo to call gamers and fandom entitled wrt assuming how the sausage is made, but if the shoe fits
Inshallah
that's the fit of a guy who is in absolute confidence of his place in the universe. that's the drip of the heavenly buddha down to earth
That really feels like the bottom of the barrel, last gasp for relevance that an AI department pitched to justify their existence
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
I'd also offer that the post-Epic sequels with the Coalition are genuinely transformative sequels that are legitimately introspective and thoughtfully critical with the storytelling/themes that people turn their noses up at. These games are both the things you think they are and yet more than that
I dunno, given Xbox are basically giving it out for free for every Xbox user who owned Ultimate Edition I wasn't really expecting it to be anything other than an upscaled PS5 port of that game to start growing a new thirst for the upcoming E-Day title (Me, I'm more waiting for 6. 5 was fantastic)
Revolver Ocelot in MGS3 be like:
oh no oh god geoff keighley is going to gush at the TGAs about this game being a huge success story developed by a solo developer and his two friends
i absolutely adore how increasingly distorted this image gets
Ideally artists should be able to take the time they need to fulfil their vision without worrying about pesky factors like time/money. But if the answer to "how long can we kick the can down the road by expanding our vision?" is "indefinitely", I feel that deserved at least a little introspection
Yanno, I'm just a random who doesn't know piss from shit and far be it for me to disparage anyone who can sustainably do what they love without duress But this Silksong piece sounds like a case of extreme scope creep wrangled into a "we were just having so much fun!!" message. ngl seems a bit weird
That thing looks like one of those items bought off Amazon where the modelled photo of the clothing turns out to be an utter scam
Imagine being such a coward that you can't even deliver your hong bao bribes openly as a true benefactor would. Gotta hide it in a greasy ass chip packet
Umamusume drops its real-time competitive PvP event in a couple sleeps so it's scrambling in the gacha mines for me
YO GANG! Make sure to do this so you can keep your GB accounts! You'll get +10 podcast points if you do!
I find this skeet doubly funny because I just rewatched the Get Smart remake
I don't understand why public bathroom tap designs are increasingly Indiana Jones-style affairs. What the fuck happened to just the basic motion sensor (or hell, just a push button)
babygirl gotta wash that shit that'd pick up dust like no-one's business
YOUR DID IT
the callback to the hair pull from alucard's own family portrait im gonna fuckin cry
idk, having poisoned water make a person spontaneously explode seems like a deliberate choice to subvert people's idea of how poisoned water would kill someone at least for shock value lol
We credit so many other videogame creators and studios for their mastery of the form, but the wizards at Remedy were (and still are!) at the forefront of irrevocably changing brain chemistry worldwide. Hats off to these brilliant motherfuckers
Max Payne (and by extension, James McCaffrey's performance) was a groundbreaking landmark achievement in what games could do and helped pave the way for the kind of cinematic storytelling in videogames that comes as second nature today
Max Payne was released on this day in 2001. Developed by Remedy, produced by Apogee, and published by Rockstar, it redefined cinematic storytelling in games and introduced the world to Bullet-Time. Today, we also honor the unforgettable voice of Max, the late James McCaffrey.
Saw the edit for it on Twitter yesterday and it feels like art of a costume swap would be a slam dunk no brainer
The Dejanerate Arc continues
Entirely forgettable, strictly dece, completely overhated by the usual circles online Not the most effective use of Susan Sarandon unfortunately
Hulk Hogan ratted out other wrestlers attempting to unionize to save his own position and paycheck above anyone else's & gladly accepted funding from Peter Thiel for his Gawker court case that paved frequently abused legal precedents for the rich to shut down any media outlets that embarrass them.
I'm not saying that Forza Horizon's success is shocking per se but the scale at which it's having its moment through the noise of all the forever games really shows how much people are surprisingly still in the market for arcade racers
I saw ozzy perform just once, at blizzcon 2009 of all places. revisiting that show following his death yielded a snapshot of a very different time – for games, for music, and for ozzy himself
50 years into video games and I guess it’s time for the fuckin Hays Code bullshit that plagued the film industry about 50 years into its own life. Same as it ever was.
Azura's Wrath feels like cheating because that whole game feels like a series of final bosses strung together lol
This is screaming for the world's easiest single letter photoshop edit
This just in: 💪💪🎉🎉 gallant effort from a group of 4 grown-ass adults to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by a literal child at videogame🎉🎉💪💪
To honor Ozzy's larger-than-life rock and roll legacy, we're making Brütal Legend *FREE* on itch.io: doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night... 🤘 🖤
Having not yet caught up on hours of discourse on two disparate SM sites, I think it's weird that this has somehow turned into a whole thing about transmisogyny But regardless, I hope you get the byline opportunities you deserve (and the pay that the writing of your caliber deserves too etc.)
I've now read the Aftermath article that seems to have started all this and (I apologize if this seems dismissive) it seems like a softball on the low pay issue that makes a conscious effort to empathize with the struggle that writers are going through and squarely places the blame at the top
Far be it for me to wokescold, but given said struggles has it crossed anyone's mind that OP's thread was not the hostile admonishment everyone seems to think it is Is it so hard to reconcile two separate truths like "you gotta do what you gotta do to survive" and "people deserve to ask for more"
it does not help that both are the most basic-looking, vanilla-ass short-shaved white dudes in nondescript suits. Visually completely interchangeable even if not by actual measure of character
the umami train pulled up into the station fuck yea
Impossible, that whole series is nothing without its wheel-spinning
Conservative comedians:
There are only two things that I remember about Binary Domain: Big Bo (fondly) and Laura Bailey's Chinglish accent (much less-fondly)
fuck this was the first thing i was thinking of lmao
The article was taken down "due to concerns about the controversial subject matter" - luckily, it was archived and can be read here! web.archive.org/web/20250719...
At least EA got their money's worth with Respawn lmfao
If you tune into the Bombcast live you get to see Scout.
WFM was fantastic and the things they cut from the script to fit it into 2 cour were incredibly smart but that story was begging for another 12 episodes of breathing space to let that setting truly shine
Shiet is that a Gold Ship nendo
The impressive part is how much it sidesteps every possible red flag by putting the absolute dyed-in-the-wool, starry-eyed racehorse freaks in charge of making the game. Not a cynical bone in their bodies, true believers in the industry as a sport and not the wildly abusive gambling machine it is
Man I remember the tale of Butcher Pete very differently
At its core is a pretty clear roguelite gameplay loop, the 30-40-something streamers love that shit so even if they approach the anime horse girls with irony they still get sucked in by that plus the dopamine hit of TV-presentation horse racing
It kills me to admit it but Dan is absolutely analogous to Gold Ship
Literally Arnold Schwarzeneggar's motivation strategy for maintaining reps lmao
In fairness I'd bet non-zero this particular instance of Oh, Naughty Dog Has Done It Again is just another symptom of their catastrophic employee churn post-TLOU2 and maybe they were still floundering around trying to get their team familiar with their pipelines or something lol
BAKUSHIN BAKUSHIN BAKUSHINSHIIN
"drug the officer" they really have goons with an elementary school grasp of the English language managing their social media accounts
With Anthem's impending server shutdown, I'm trying it for the first time aftermath.site/anthem-server-...
I put in more than 400 hours almost entirely because of how the game FEELS. People disparagingly compared it to Destiny and Warframe and every other thing in between, but the truth is that nothing moves, shoots and flies in tandem quite like Anthem does. The moment to moment is just absolute joy
This game reaches layers of degeneracy otherwise yet unknown to mankind