I finished Metroid Fusion (again) last night. Did you know: It's great? Did you also know: This thing is - quite clearly - a giant metal wanking machine?

people say snoozefest like it's a bad thing. i would attend a snoozefest, no questions asked. name your price

The spice ratings confuse me.

Decided to uninstall EmuDeck and as a parting gift it deleted my standalone Retroarch install and now when I reinstall it it won't detect and automatically load profiles for controllers anymore

Doesn't everyone have a floor sweater? (A sweater that is always on the floor somewhere in your house)

Gauntlet Dark Legacy is another one of those "I truly did want to play this again and I'm glad I finally did... but an hour is all I need" games.

Time traveler: It's amazing, kid. They remake FF7 and the graphics look better than CG movies look today. You'll get to run around a to-scale Midgar fighting HUGE monsters and robots in real-time. Me: Wowww! And they can finally show characters actually sleeping under the covers? Time traveler: Um

Was thinking about this the other day while reflecting on how many remakes of older games, including ones I love like FF7 Rebirth, have gone for a very similar high contrast "photorealistic" look that 1. doesn't stand out in my memory and 2. is a natural fit for slotting generated assets into.

Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it

Don't know how many years it's been since I last touched XCOM: Enemy Unknown but it took one second to remember to hit 1, then Tab to cycle through all the targets a trooper has line of sight on, and god damn it feels good.

Same way I found out about Epstein

The number of Youtube ads I'm getting for services that mention the word AI in any way has dropped off a cliff. That's just my anecdote, but still.

One of those funny things about controlling an avatar in a game vs. the way real people behave is... if I was exploring the Underdark, and I saw a cloud of spores so thick it's like a purple fog, you'd REALLY have to convince me to walk into it. As opposed to my dipshits who just go "okay boss :)"

Must be a real pain in the ass for Aloy to get her whole torso painted every time you put on one of the Tenakth armor sets.

Haven't found the Marvel Cosmic Invasion OST to be a selling point in and of itself like a lot of recent beat-em-ups, but this track is good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=btoi...

I asked a couple of my local van dykes how they felt about Dick's incredible longevity and after a little confusion they said they're very happy for him

I'd make fun of this page but that's how I end up sitting in my chair if I don't do posture checks

As ever, @danthat.bsky.social’s definition of indie still stands: can you just fuck off down the beach/park for the day when the weather is nice? No? Then you/your studio is not indie 👍

“Muuuahhahh the japanese rpg… is well known for its excellent. There is a french rpg called expedition 33…. That recalls that same Japanese… excellence… *trails off*”

As much as I love buff badass lesbian Samus, I also really love the version of her from that one Super Metroid gag manga where she's this weirdo obsessed with round objects and hiding in small spaces

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

Shantae: Seven Sirens is getting in my good books early

Watching Groundhog Day with my folks. Psyching myself up to not cry when he tries to save the old man. Already know I'm going to anyway.

Always feel bad for video game people when they start talking about the Geoffscars, assume they're in a kind of MST3K situation where they can't control whether or not they watching those awards because they've used parts of their keyboards to fashion their beloved deckbuilding roguelite mechanics

Which shady immoral gambling site will let me bet on whether Dispatch season 2 will be the first mainstream video game to have a character joke about giving a footjob

Y'all. This is IMPORTANT Dark Souls 3 fact finding!

really disagree with the new unified Burgertime, Diner, Peter Pepper's Ice Cream Factory timeline. I'm not above being hyped to see Vinnie Vinegar on the same screen as Mugsy the Root Beer but this is not what the fandom needs

That's it. That's the show.

"How many people at Valve are even aware of what a cesspool a ton of their communities are" and "how many would care to do anything about it" are two questions that keep me up at night. It's not rhetorical considering the slop that somehow gets onto the store.

Last time I shut down BG3 I was setting up to do something... let's hope I remember what it was when I load my save... okay, yeah, I think I can figure this one out.

Bigger Luke Theory is the perfect satire of "fan theories" existing divorced from textual analysis because it uses all the tools of treating the fiction at face value as a real thing that happened, to reach a conclusion that makes absolutely no fucking sense in any interpretation of the story

OHHH! That little L-shaped clump of pixels on classic Mario's hand is like... the outline of his fingers curling in to make a closed fist. Now that I see it on thicc Peach it's so obvious!

samus aran is a silent protagonist because she was raised by weird bird people and the only verbal language she knows is ear-splitting shrieking and screeching. The space government passed a law that she's not allowed to talk.

I laughed so loud at this last panel my cat looked at me like I was a stranger

We watched Project A-ko 2 the other night and it was good. Tamer, smaller budget in all the ways you'd expect, but still funny and had good action where it counted. But honestly it faded into my memory a bit after learning that Malibu Comics (yes, that one) did an adaptation of the first movie.

did it in four words hemmingway

We must sort out Actual Size on computers. It's trivial to tell a computer or phone exactly what size screen it has, so it should be equally trivial to bring up an actual size ruler so I know exactly how long an inch is at any given time

No disrespect to the composers but man I didn't realize how overbearing the music in Ghost of Yotei could be until I turned it off last night and it transformed the game. Not as much as Witcher 3, but still. Worth taking time to experience just the atmosphere after you've played a game for a while.

Before ChatGPT parents had to ask Twitch chat how to raise baby

Fixed it

this is your nightly reminder to give someone you don't know $5 of Amazon's money (you can do it once every delivery) costs you nothing

I'm for destigmatizing sexuality and nudity, not cramming fanservice into all things, but it legit bums me out that RoboCop: Rogue City doesn't have even one bit of unnecessary nudity, especially after so many people said it captures the 80s spirit. Disqualifying for a Verhoeven adaptation, IMO.

Thinking back on watching through X-Files, and I knew this would be the case, but it's still funny to think back on how excited and speculative people were about the ongoing story episodes and all the mysteries, and just how easily I'd skip them for the monster-of-the-week eps if I rewatched it.

The thing that bums me out the most about Destiny, Overwatch, Rivals, Fortnite, all the games that I would enjoy if they didn't have gross FOMO and microtransaction incentives, is that in my ideal world, the cosmetics would just be icing on the cake of a game I enjoy (and paid for) for its own sake.

I'm not hopeful about the prospect of a new Tomb Raider because I don't pin my hopes on any project that's above a certain budget until proven otherwise but I do still feel this

The announcement is that Embracer is shutting down Crystal Dynamics, while Geoff smiles and nods and cuts to the next commercial.

tony soprano: [looks up from jukebox] jimmy mcnulty: [bursts into restaurant] tony, it's me, jimmy! i need your help catching a murderer. you're the only one i can trust tony soprano: in this thing of ours, we're all part of the hbo family aj: i can help you guys with my special abilities and skills

8th of December

if i knew how to do Spock's neck pinch i would likely only ever use it on myself

I finally looked up the screenshot hotkey for the Steam Deck and everyone's going to pay the price.