Ok, that It clown IGN piece is it for me. Tired of seeing them A-B test social media headlines for jokey popcult weblog bits. I’ve been sticking around because they do some good stuff, but the shlock is too much.

Time to start ironically liking Myles and demanding amiibo, on the Smash roster, things of that nature

Where’s the official Q-Up coin available for purchase. I’ll settle for an .stl

About video game nag lines... I recall a few weeks ago somebody writing a mean piece about Ghost of Yotei, and one thing that gets overlooked is that lots of people do not play a game for 50 hours straight and are massively helped by reminder text when you take long breaks from playing.

Myles will say this

*whispering to George W Bush* a second wave of Huntrix fashion dolls has hit

Having a sidekick character with a smart-alecky personality is some real designed-by-committee-for-mass-appeal stuff.

I decided to put my own Daily Planet newspapers in the Superman popcorn bucket.

I’d rather see airplane banners demanding Iger stop this than begging for a new Star War.

crap, is this the battery spacex gave the guys on Moonbase 8

Starting to feel bad for Horizon. The core games are really good, but keep showing up exactly when some other big release has all the air. There was a Lego game for no reason. And now there’s a mobile multiplayer game with Make Her Sexy sliders that will get a server shutdown notice by next summer.

Look at the FF dunking on a failed crowdfunder. #boardgames

Learning a lot about the lead time to manufacture toys.

Starting to feel bad for Ratchet & Clank. They had a whole theatrical release and nobody cared. The good character designs are dragged down by the designed-by-committee characters. And now there’s a mobile multiplayer game that will get a server shutdown notice by next summer.

Geoff Keighley really is the perfect representative of the gaming industry: -unreservedly self serving -pretends to care about the people actually making the product -loves to make performative gestures that ultimately go nowhere and help no one -would almost certainly sell out to the saudis

Three times a year everybody talks about how much they hate Geoff Keighley and I'm so tir... no you know what, I actually love it.

Going to platinum Ghost of Yotei just so I get a nice congratulatory email from Sony with an offer to buy exclusive merchandise.

"themed to doctor strange" seems like a bit of a reach. Looks like a pretty normal fancypants bar with some Marvel props here and there.

This is the same studio the made The Finals, which also used AI generated voices. If you're not going to pay voice actors to do lines, pay designers to actually make your assets, and pay writers to come up with your story, then you shouldn't be making games.

A fun thing about the Pokémon TCG Pocket game is that now that they have added an option to give each other a card a day for free, we’re all just out here helping each other complete sets.

They're doing this just to upset Don Rosa. #boardgames

Marvel 1943, a game in development that everyone forgot even exists, has announced a release delay.

The Future Class was created in 2020 when a lot of companies responded to online critiques and broader social justice movements with DEI initiatives. Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."

Going to block the account posting that fake roadrunner video half for that and half for the bio saying they’re a “movies/TV fan.”

“My brother’s name is Wirt.” “Who cares.”

Well thank god Nintendo Store, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Music and Nintendo Today are all four separate apps.

Mamdani baby boom next summer

Hey pinball nerds. I have one full Flip-a-card and two extra entire top sections. How gauche would it be if I removed a backglass from one of them (to frame it) and threw away the wooden parts and other junk inside of it.

Had a heck of a win against the Awakened One with this combo of Demon Form+, Double Tap+ and Whirlwind+. #boardgames

EA says it will retain creative control following Saudi sale, but like, come on aftermath.site/ea-saudi-ara...

GIVE US NOOKINGTON’S

Every business with more than ten employees operates like this.

So many storefronts change the image of what you're looking at to another image when you mouseover and I hate it.

We need to do something about the number of 3D printer nerds who feel the need to carve some basic ass font into their models.

I've updated my sale blog with all new visuals for EVERY GameChanger case *AND* dropped the NES DIY kit prices! Check it!!! artofrustyshackles.blogspot.com

Currently playing everyone’s least favorite Magic set. #boardgames

Happy Halloween

Hey, the Milk & Cheese sticker stretch goal has been reached on the A1 DEADLINE Kickstarter! Deadline was the UK home-away-from-home for M&C, I also did some original Hectic Planet stories for the magazine. The Deadline years were gold for M&C and me and it's good to see the revival funded.

How many of y’all finally decided to do this today.

Trick or treat night going well.

After we recorded this episode, I looked further into the state of Once Upon a Katamari DLC and it's worse than I mention on the show. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

Funniest company in gaming

Looking forward to the “there will be no further Animal Crossing updates” press release on January 16.

That Animal Crossing update video is the best Direct in months, as rated on a scale of length vs number of times I swore out loud.

Really wish my timeline this week wasn't full of people reposting those terrible Twitter posts created by the 12 year olds in charge of the US government's social media.

I imagine it’s incredibly difficult to be a sports anchor during the Frozen Frenzy broadcast when they have to jump from game to game with little notice, but these guys are just babbling pop culture references like a Family Guy episode.

Two losses to this Final Girl matchup of the birds going wild in the warehouse. Or as I think of it: every Lowe’s or Home Depot I’ve ever been in. #boardgames

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