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It's a real shame that enshittification as a concept became so diluted, because this is a completely separate phenomenon with distinct causes. Enshittification is when companies degrade the experience to extract more value. Experience rot is when companies lose the ability to make a good experience.
I've got a new video game diary up, talking about despelote, Pirate Yakuza, Many Nights a Whisper, and much, much more. (These were supposed to be monthly. Lol. Lmao.)
I had originally thought that No Sleep for Kaname Date was an Ultra Despair Girls-esque spinoff, but a few hours in, it's a lot more like Batman: Arkham Origins in terms of its relationship to its parent series.
People deserve stable jobs.
Well, they can't stop the flow of new games, so padding out the release calendar seems like a good strategy. The press cycle will pick it up, anyhow.
Anyone with "dc" in their handle is one of the most insufferable people on the planet.
10 games to get to know you Marble Drop RollerCoaster Tycoon Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 Save the Date Backfirewall_ Psychonauts Sleeping Dogs Command & Conquer: Renegade Semantris Mass Effect
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Oh my gods!
Out of all the layers, I think 1400 has the most shitpost energy (complimentary).
This is art.
I'm surprised Scarlet Nexus and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 haven't been mentioned in the replies yet!
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I have never been more certain that humanity has failed.
Rotating at those speeds can cause severe injury to flesh. For more information, please visit meatspin dot com.
Well then you'll never understand the gravidy of the situation.
I wish I had one of those rapidly disappearing old-media sinecures so I could get paid to write columns like "Are Labubus the Dubai chocolate of Furbies?"
They stopped making Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games because of match point regulations in the tennis minigame. Look up "sonic mpreg" to find out more.
Imagine looking at the current media landscape of AI-generated and content-farm slop and thinking, ‘Yes, this is better than some 22-year-old getting paid to write a paragraph about a new Battlefield skin announcement.’
“Games journalism is just regurgitating press releases” is a wild criticism, because aside from being mostly untrue, do you really expect gamers to seek out, summarize, and contextualize press releases themselves?
A new episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast is here! This one is a belated look at Summer Game Fest 2025 and the Nintendo Switch 2's early days.
I want Scarlet Nexus to get a sequel so badly. Let me fight monsters on the moon!
Happy Odaiba Day to those who celebrate! To those who don't, fix your heart and watch Digimon Adventure.
i want to go to there
Bell peppers and eggplants are my favourite fruits.
I mean, it wouldn't be the first time that conservatives failed to grasp the message of something they claimed to like.
The two types of video game:
Is the idea that there is major overlap between censorial TERFs who importune payment processors and LGBTQ2S+ Tumblrites with bad media literacy a just-so story, or is it backed up by actual data? From what I can see, it just seems like some folks want to play another round of "blame the queers."
The fact that the collapse of Gawker Media is considered to be a significant part of Hulk Hogan's legacy says a lot more about the health of the Fourth Estate than it does about Hulk Hogan.
Mario Kart World is my Mudasir; Donkey Kong Bananza is my Salman.
Yeah, the outcome of that case should have been Nick Denton and AJ Daulerio getting catapulted into the ocean, not the entirety of Gawker Media falling apart.
As a maker of exceptionally sexless art, I just wanna say publicly that any attempt at censorship of the arts is to be resisted. NSFW art is always an easy target, but it’s also always only the first step in a chain, not to mention the artistic value of this stuff in its own right.
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it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught
imagine if we decipher the tablets and 90 percent of them are just guys being like 'wow, yet again Ea-nasir you have gone above and beyond as a merchant' and the complainant was just an outlier
It is so, so important to learn to understand the difference between A Gross Thing That Freaks Me Out, versus A Thing Which Causes Actual Harm In The World because as long as you can't navigate the difference, your disgust is a lever that can be used to manipulate you
9. Butterscotch should be a more popular flavour than it is. In particular, the relative rarity of butterscotch ice cream is criminal.
8. Golf With Your Friends is a technical mess of a game, but it's some of the most fun you can have multiplayer gaming.
7. My secret to efficient management is that if everyone is 85% okay with something, then that something should just be the option you pick, and there's no need for further debate.
*three or four
6. Living with the Land is one of the best attractions at Walt Disney World.
5. Reptiles are really cute. Snakes and turtles especially.
Nescafé Rich, IMO. But YMMV.
4. I've often heard the criticism that Perfect Blue has a bad ending because it's too neat and happy. That criticism completely misunderstands the point of the movie! Why would Mima have to end up in a bad place after taking charge of her life and image and breaking free of her manager's control?
3. Unless you're on vacation in a place where you don't live, there is never any reason to stop by a Tim Hortons or a Starbucks in the morning. Making coffee at home with instant coffee would be cheaper and tastier.
2. In general, ramen is better with chicken broth than with pork broth.
1. Third-wave emo is barely a "genre" in the sense that the label applies to three or different artistic movements that are grouped together more on the basis of the labels that signed the bands in question than any musical similarity.
Sure, let's try this. One like, one opinion that's not on politics.
Me listening to the new Wet Leg album and seeing that it was referred to as a "bubblegrunge" record
Bedroom pop, bubblegrunge... We really don't need to come with a new, condescending genre label every time women decide to make music.
I stand by this.
I never eat pasta with whole meatballs. I always chop the meatballs into little chunks.
FOR REAL
activision put at least 60% of the entire western video game industry workforce on CoD so that they could make this
Sleeping Dogs 2 when
Last five GOTYs: 2020: Ori and the Will of the Wisps 2021: OPUS: Echo of Starsong 2022: Pentiment 2023: Chants of Sennaar 2024: 1000xRESIST
These have “ball pit at Dashcon” energy.
Let's get spicy: Children of Men
Being on sub services helps some titles, doesn't help some others. Some devs love the option, some don't. There are no clear, definitive, one-take-fits-all answers on this (or any other business model or price point, really). Exhausting Discourse.
I think people should be *angrier* at Nadella than at Spencer, and almost everyone is getting that backwards. That being said, they should still be angry at Spencer: if he really, truly, morally disagreed with what's happening, he would have left the company by now.
This is still true today.
Satya Nadella does not get enough hate for the damage he has done.
Again, not an endorsement of Microsoft Gaming's leadership team, who have squandered every ounce of goodwill they ever earned, but every games journalist who fails to contextualize today's gaming division layoffs within the broader Microsoft layoffs is committing egregious journalistic malpractice.
Weirdly enough, Reddit
Had to pause tonight's episode multiple times because I was laughing so hard
I'll have to check Dhruvees out! I'm always looking for new South Indian places to try (and it looks like they've got Indonesian and Sri Lankan items as well).
This isn't an endorsement of Xbox's leadership team! I think they suck and should resign. But just for once, I'd like a podcast or a thinkpiece to take it on faith that I, too, want to throw Phil Spencer from an airplane and explain to me what's *actually* going on.
It's amazing how little armchair industry analysis accounts for the fact that Microsoft Gaming is a tiny part of a larger corporation. (It's, like, right in the name.) Podcasters will tiptoe right up to the idea but then immediately pivot to talking about Spencer/Booty/Bond again.
Trigonometric AND hyperbolic functions? We're being spoiled here.
Thanks! I definitely need to hang out in the New Edinburgh/Lindenlea/Vanier North area more. So many cool places to eat!
Which restaurant is this? I love me some good diner fare.
The fact that it's healthy feels like some sort of cheat code. Eating well shouldn't taste this good!
If nobody actually listened to them, NIMBYs would be peak comedy.
can you believe it guys, sgdq just a week away! sgdq is in a week! woo hoo!! i am so happy about this information!! sgdq just a week away!!!
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Mario Kart World is the best acid jazz album you've ever heard with a kart racer bolted onto it.
I should be allowed to paint ducks on the sides of people's cars.
Ahoy! There's a new episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast. In this one, we chat about video game pricing, Bungie's art plagiarism controversy, Many Nights a Whisper, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Back 4 Blood, Doom: The Dark Ages, and much more!
Go home, ResetEra; you're drunk.
any legacy media outfits wanna give me a few thousands a month? ill definitely manufacture lots of consent for yall dont even worry about it i got it on lock
Nintendo should unveil Astral Chain 2 on the day 45 puts boots on the ground in Tehran, just to upstage him.
There are a lot of people on my feed posting about playing Digimon Story, and every single one of them is beautiful and correct.
Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
Yellow dragon fruit: Juicy, flavourful, a gustatory delight Red dragon fruit: La Croix is too strong for me, bro
Super Mario Maker is a true second-party game because *you*, the player, make the game.
The edutainment title Super Solvers: Mission T.H.I.N.K. You'd better believe I beat that pissbaby Morty at all five iterations of his stupid board game.
Dang, those rye and barley cereals could have fixed me.
"They were always bad; you just weren't paying attention!" is always irritating to hear because: A) that information is often not readily available to pay attention to; B) sometimes the alternatives are even worse; and C) sometimes people *become* worse.
mindseye exists but sleeping dogs 2 does not this is true injustice
Incredible. No notes.
Hey quick spoiler for the video game Mindseye (2025) but when you beat the game you unlock “free roam mode” which contains quite literally nothing, and you are forced to play as this character by default and can not change anything about him.
This box does nothing.
Right?! Just last year, I Am Your Beast and Echo Point Nova were fucking rad.
Heck, Call of Duty isn't even the same Call of Duty every year! They change a lot of stuff. That's a big part of why people keep getting mad about it!
David Zaslav looks like a guy who owns 17 used car lots in Riverside County.
: The Next Generation (This might be the most deeply cursed post I've ever made.)
Modern video game commercials: Lavish graphics. A stirring narration. An exciting reveal. 90s commercials: A kid dressed as a robot kicks Bigfoot in the dick. The room erupts in flame. Secret service agents dive through the windows and open fire. Tetris 2, now on Game Boy.