My wife and I took a three month hiatus from finishing Borderlands 4, due to all the quest glitches we'd been experiencing. So, I decide to come back to it today. Ya know what? We owe Borderlands 3 an apology. No, really, we all do. 4 is by far the bottom of the garbage pits for this series.

I did not have "Jeffrey Epstein had a hand in pushing for microtransactions/lootboxes in Activision games" on my Bingo card this year. Everyone knew Kotick was in the little black book, but this shit is on a "Captain Planet villain" level of insanity.

This is a pretty garbage take. 😂 Retro games are embraced because of the memories and nostalgia of folks who enjoyed them back in the day. We want to go back and play these as we remembered them. THAT'S THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT OF REMASTERS.

Wait.... Brett Ratner directed the Melania documentary? That explains why Cheeto was so adamant about getting Paramount to push for a Rush Hour 4. I thought that announcement was really fucking weird and completely out of nowhere last year.

I never thought I'd say this, but it's sticking with me. Days after beating it, the story and ending keep me wanting to crawl back and replay it from the beginning. It took three decades. I've finally experienced an RPG that resonated with me the same way Chrono Trigger did. Yeah. I said it.

Reason no. 11,476 why user reviews are 100% worthless. 🤣 How the fuck are y'all praising it when it's literally tanking in every theater, globally? No one on these sites track bots. RT and Metacritic are beyond worthless.

Well, that makes twice this week I had to cry... 😭 Catherine was a friggen' legend with performances that will always take me back to my childhood/Blockbuster years. From Beetlejuice to A Mighty Wind. Looks like I'll finally have to binge Schitt's Creek this year.

I love to hear CEOs whining that people don't want AI in their products, and to please stop being negative about their slop and to stop calling it slop, please keep it up.

Okay, hold up. I type in "oracle" in TikTok's search bar (just to double-check that I still have them blocked), and this is the first thing that shows up on top? Last I checked, it's "O-R-A-C-L-E" and not "I-S-R-A-E-L". Jesus fuck, they're just making it blatantly obvious at this point. 🙄

I knew where it was headed... I knew my sense of dread with the oncoming ending wasn't exaggerated. God fucking dammit. Both endings had me cutting onions.

I just encountered the Chromatic Lampmaster.... I have officially decided that I will NOT be Platinum-ing Expedition 33. I'll still 100% the story, because it's f-ing amazing, but these optional challenge bosses can go to hell. 😂

Ya know, I'm seeing a sort of Thor: Ragnarok/Flash Gordon approach with Masters of the Universe, so this could be insanely awesome! Or it could be another horrific embarrassment like the 1986 travesty. 😬 I hope not. I want this to be a goofy good time.

Okay, one gripe. Some of these battles in E33 go a little too far in the repetition department. 332 parries against a mime that took way too long for their shield to break. Nearly 30 minutes of timed blocks and attacks with one character. I nearly fell asleep and almost broke my perfect run. 😂

Mamdani: I am in support of abolishing ICE… I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life.

It's been one year, now. Yeah, we're only 25% into this shitshow. Just a casual reminder that if these tides turn for the better at some point, and those ex-friends of yours try crawling back, groveling for your friendship because they realized they were wrong... ... tell them to go to Hell. 😐

Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits

Sir, I believe you're a bit short for the table.

It's insane how, in under a decade we went from the vast majority of people saying "of course Nazis are the bad guys" to way too many people publicly admitting they'd go to bat for Adolf Hitler.

So a close friend/coworker of mine just had to rush her diabetic husband to the ER because of a sudden DKA attack. He's recovering, but he was literally knocking on death's door with a blood sugar reading over 800. Scary shit. I mean, a week ago, you feel fine, and then that? Yikes. 😬

Not spoiling anything for folks who've yet to still play Expedition 33, but once you hit Act III, you are going to be emotionally and mentally exhausted. ... because, what in the actual fuck? 🙃 I'm definitely going to 100% this, and then beg my wife to play through it herself while I watch.

I'll stop being negative about AI when AI itself stops being a giant fucking negative for everyone but the AI Techbros.

Well... this is a little awkward, now.

Ya know, there are days that I wish an actual Hell DID exist, because holy fuck, some of the folks who sprouted out of the woodwork this past week... 😐

This goddamn game likes to cut deep... a lot.

Jesus Christ, the amount of desperate knob-polishing you people go through to put this game on the pedestal it doesn't deserve to be on. Not hating on BotW on its own, but come on, there are countless games that have far better openings. Get out more.

I am reminded this morning of how years ago Rush Limbaugh went after furries and a lot of dipshits went mask off and said "I don't usually agree with Rush Limbaugh, BUT---" Hating on furries is ALWAYS right-wing shit.

I know there are a lot of folks who are psyched to see the OG X-Men cast return in Avengers: Doomsday... ... but the sadistic part of me is hoping that all of them get brutally killed off in the opening 10 minutes, as some sort of multiverse reset, because that would be fucking hilarious. 😂

Whelp, I can no longer play Expedition 33 in the living room because my wife and sister-in-law have yet to play it, and I just hit Act 2 a bit ago. They were watching me fight, and they were like, "Oh! Gustave's going a little grey up there!" Me, trying my hardest to not spoil shit:

One funny thing about living in the same area as folks you've exiled from your life: You're on high alert. Like all the time. My eyes scout around for potential unwanted eye-contact/interaction from said folks in public spaces, everywhere I go. You are gone to me. You do not get to see me.

Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine. No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment. Impeach. Convict. Remove.

I go to bed last night and woke up to not only Trump invading Venezuela, but he KIDNAPPED Maduro and his wife?! All without congressional approval? Hey, dickheads in Congress... Now would be a really good time to purge this fucker from office if any of you assholes have spines left.

Ending the year like Winthorpe, and kicking 2026 off with our annual Trading Places and Mario Party ritual! Happy New Year, everyone! Remember to be good to yourselves. You matter! 💙

Oh wonderful. People are setting off fireworks in the neighborhood... again.

This is probably one of the best flavors available. It's almost neck-and-neck with Code Red and Voltage for me. 🤪

It has now been exactly ten years to the minute since I had my mother taken to the hospital one final time. One decade since she was last at home. But at the same time, I'm so grateful that she passed when she did. She would have collectively lost her shit at Cheetoface McFuckrag being the POTUS.

2025 has been a really wild year. I mean, I can say some great stuff happened for me during little snippets, but I think we can all unanimously agree that 2025 has been utter dogshit. I don't think my mental health has gone through this much trauma since my mom died almost exactly a decade ago.

Call me weird, but I wouldn't mind seeing these two get the remaster treatment for the PS4/5. I... kinda liked them.

Cats are fun.

Sometimes that morning Silent Hill fog just hits the spot.

Hey, just a friendly reminder: You're allowed to like games that are just "okay." Not every single thing you pick has to be a "GOTY contender." You're also allowed to like games that are universally panned by critics and word-of-mouth. Your enjoyment surpasses the opinions of others.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's entire soundtrack is gonna be on loop for the next month or so. 😐 God fucking dammit, this is some of the best video game music I've heard in years. I know, I'm WAY late, but I'm so glad I'm on it now.

I really hate that I had this shelved since buying it on day one, because HOLY FUCK is it good. The combat system is so engaging, and while difficult to time all the parries at first, it's quite forgiving. Final Fantasy, if you bring back turn-based battles in XVII, do it like this.

I never imagined how much I would end up hating organized religion as an adult when I was being raised in an ultra-conservative Catholic family. I blame it for my extreme lack of motivation on a lot of projects as I got older. No, really. When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was create.

What in the fucking Suzanne Collins fan fiction is this shit? 😂

Person in front of me at the drive-thru today. I wonder what their favorite animal is? 🤨🤔🧐

If only this overgrown, infected orange skin tag at the White House knew just how heavily his inevitable death is going to be mocked and celebrated by people across the globe... Using TDS to describe Rob Reiner's murder falls far below all levels of "what in the actual fuck is wrong with you?!"

Jesus, ever since I moved back in June, my gaming momentum literally hit a brick wall. I know most of it stems from all the work we've had to do, and we're still working on boxes and furniture setups. It's been slow since we've had to budget and plan. But fuck... I still need to play E33 and DS2.

Typing this up during the intermission... Aside from Tarantino being an absolute dickbag, we had to see this in its full glory on the big screen. So far, it is so worth it. Still pisses me off it took him over 20 years to release this here.