Rising Heat is a twin-stick bullet hell with serious buildcraft. Level up, choose from randomized hacks, fuse abilities into busted combos, and ram enemies head-on with your ship. Every run is different. Every build hits harder.

Concord and Highguard are harsh lessons in just trying to shove your way into a competitive genre. When it comes to online multiplayer live service games, if the genre has its "big three" (maybe four) already, it becomes way harder to establish a foothold.

The closest to "open world" a Resident Evil should ever get to is taking the Spencer Mansion or RPD and just making it bigger, like a mall (too close to Dead Rising?) or university campus or something.

playing as grace in RE9: crying, pissing, throwing up playing as leon in RE9: *deflects chainsaw* "ur breath stinks loser" *decapitates zombie with hatchet*

Myrient is closing down March 31st. Gotta download as much as I feasibly can before then.

Social media, especially Twitter, has glamorized "being a hater" to an absurd degree. Most of it isn't even logical hating with reasonable criticisms. It's mostly rage-induced psychosis that's somewhat performative at best, and repulsively annoying at worst.

Nothing angers "video games are art" people more than actual, genuine eclecticism. They get infuriated at the idea that someone can enjoy No More Heroes, Vampire Survivors, Planescape: Torment, and Cookie Clicker all in the same week.

i shouldn't have gotten multivitamin gummies. every day is a battle to not shove them all into my mouth.

Finally read The Long Halloween in its entirety. Loeb and Sale really is the pair.

There's a problem with people online trying extremely hard to protect the "sanctity" of art, yet they forget to show any semblance of understanding to art*ists* and art*istry*. They don't care about why or how it's made, they only care about posturing when the final product is out.

If you're interested in Warhammer 40k novels, there's many potential starting points, depending on what you like. But for authors, I suggest prioritizing: Dan Abnett Aaron Dembski-Bowden Nate Crowley Mike Brooks Robert Rath Chris Wraight If any of these names is on it, it's likely a solid read.

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms successfully brought me back into the world of Westeros. I hated Game of Thrones season 8 and didn't bother watching House of the Dragon because I got tired of Targaryens. But making a focused, upbeat story on a homeless knight was the remedy my bitterness needed.

yeah bro, if you had tourette's with coprolalia, you would totally overpower it and never say anything bad ever. you'd totally be the first one.

The occasional civil argument on the internet is fine, and possibly enlightening, but sometimes you gotta tap out because it gets to a point where you realize you don't know what the hell the other person is talking about.

There's an epidemic on Twitter with teenagers being insanely emotionally volatile and being unable to handle it well, while being dogmatic about the belief that fiction is, in fact, reality. It's gotten to the point where I'm questioning the parenting skills of older millennials/gen Xers.

The website for Eel Game Studio is live. Run by Kenji Saito (dir. of Metal Gear Rising), Takahisa Taura (dir. of Astral Chain), and Katsumi Suenami (project manager of Bayonetta 3). Also, ICYMI, Abebe Tinari (dir. of Bayo Origins) joined Housemarque in 2024. eelgamestudio.com/en/

I kinda want to hurry up and finish all the Warhammer 40k novels I have so I can read more that ISN'T 40k... but I also kinda want more 40k. In a year and a half, I've gone through 16 (soon to be 17), with 8 more in the TBR pile.

The blandness of current Hollywood blockbusters (minus some key exceptions) has caused me to reevaluate the Harry Potter series. I still think their writing is suspect at parts, but these movies shine at set design, costuming, grading (pre-Yates at least), practical effects, and the cast.

PlayStation could've had the most reliable remaster-focused studio in the industry with Bluepoint, breathing new life into any old classics they wanted. But no, such a braindead obvious and easy plan wasn't destructive and wasteful enough.

There's been an explosion of car salesmen making comedy shorts, and some of them reek of trying to make you forget they're car salesmen and are never actually on your side.

You really can mix chocolate and vanilla caramel powder, strawberries, blueberries, and peanut butter into a smoothie, but the second you add half a ripe banana, it becomes the most noticeable flavor. Nothing on earth is more important than bioengineering a flavorless banana.

jarvis, unshit my pants

After the upcoming Jumanji movie finishes off the current trilogy, I want the next one to bring back the board game being played in real life, but give it a little more of a horror tinge. Still adventurous and fun, but a bit scarier.

You read and watch "critique" from people online enough, you realize that no one's respect is more conditional than someone who claims to respect art.

It seems the way to be a successful Instagram egirl is to have "anime" and "cosplay" in your bio despite having zero cosplay pics and zero references to any anime in any pics.

With the enshittification of Discord continuing, if you have a server that hosts a ton of useful, user-curated encyclopedic knowledge of some specific topic, but for some fucking stupid reason all that info is nowhere else, consider putting it somewhere else.

One of the most annoying things in today's social media landscape is this incredibly weird, pervasive belief that every site should be some free speech absolutism platform with almost zero moderation, even down to the comment section of a YouTube video, or the replies of an individual's post.

Catching up on acclaimed movies. Rental Family. Loved it. Sentimental Value. Very good. Bugonia. Great. Blue Moon. Also great. Also watched the Scorsese doc, and honestly it still feels too short to cover his career, and it was. Didn't touch on his own docs, no Hugo, and this was made pre-KOTFM.

this is just gemslop. you only like it because it's a rare instance of ingenuity in an otherwise shallow medium.

I think two functionalities that would undeniably make Bluesky goated is being able to go to a person's page and sort posts by oldest, newest, or most liked; and being able to see engagement history with someone (if you replied to each other before, liked one another's posts before, etc).

Don't ever let it be said that I'm against creatives. I'm so staunchly pro-creative, that I think every artist and creator should be allowed to shoot one consumer in the face per month.

"Hey, have you seen this vtuber drama-" No. I only watch Hololive. The only drama I experience is the occasional graduation and three weeks of suicidal ideation from that talent's viewers.

It's like Adobe is deliberately trying to get a 100% piracy rate of their software.

The "sunk cost" criticism of One Piece is overblown. It's typically said by people only talking about the anime, filler and all. They never discuss the manga and how it's actually an extremely fast and easy read. You can crush a full 200-page volume of One Piece in an afternoon easy.

Twitter lately: - Ragebait - Vaguepost - Pedophile outed - Vaguepost - Pedophile outed - "Are video games cooked?" [AI slop] - Vaguepost - Kick streamer being a sociopath - Ragebait - "Is Hollywood cooked?" [AI slop] - "Buy gold RIGHT NOW." - Gold value drops - Pedophile outed - Vaguepost

I don't at all buy the assertion that Scorsese hasn't made a great movie in the 21st century. If you sit through Silence and come away seriously thinking it's in the bottom half of his filmography, I simply think you have bad taste.

Tragic when some online creator likes to tout themselves as a "critic" but can't offer any insight more thoughtful than what an average Redditor can muster.

Found this Korean channel with a "dating" show where you decide on a person based on the contents of their phone. Sounds interesting, until the participants blow the concept by being boring, eliminating phones that show personality and keeping the ones that suggest the owner is fashionable and fit.

TCGPlayer seller fucked up my order in such a remarkably odd way, I'm actually kind of astounded. Like a third of it is stuff I ordered, another third is stuff I DIDN'T order but still needed, and the rest is bullshit duplicates. Incredible.

It's easy to understand why PSA and other top card graders are getting so much business when you see all the stupid bullshit people are submitting to get graded. Why are you sending a card to PSA that wouldn't even make back the submission fee even if it were a 10?

I see an AI-generated Short on YouTube with a lot of views, and before I hide the channel, I see the top comments with thousands of likes are "who cares if it's AI? it's funny!" AI will succeed, not because it's good, but because most "normal" people are too dumb and/or apathetic to art.

It takes much longer for the on-boarding process to hook me into a game now. As a kid, I started up a game and played it for several straight hours, but now I can only play for like 45-60 minutes at a time each day until I reach a point that really makes me go "time to lock in."

Apologies to the LGS employees who are gonna have to search for 20+ Yu-Gi-Oh cards I ordered for a total price of $5.

did bill slap it against donnie's cheeks?

Asian Guy CONFOUNDS White Waiters in Boston with PERFECT Proto-Goidelic

Total value of the contents of my full 112-card toploader binder (no graded cards) is $1628. We'll be conservative and call it $1500. This is several hundred more than I assumed. Hell yeah. Not bad for under a year of collecting.

Megabonk became so much more fun when I downloaded the "Toggle Everything" mod, because the game is so overtuned that stage 3 and the final boss are still tedious.

Finished Ghazghkull Thraka and started Brutal Kunnin. After a bunch of human and Astartes-focused stories, I'm really enjoying this change of pace.

Watched One Battle After Another. Long, but paced well and equally tense and hilarious. Biggest takeaway is that I think I'm in love with Chase Infiniti now. Every close up shot of her was like staring into the sun, an overpowering majesty my eyes could only wish to gaze at.

Mine is Kiryu's best antagonist, and I'm glad RGG Studio agrees.