I bought Woolhaven despite the fact that I lost my Cult of the Lamb cloud save (which I had platinumed)... but it gives me an excuse to replay Cult of the Lamb.

What's the easiest pathway to subjugating a population in a country with a for-profit healthcare system? Normalize removing ever preventative measure that would keep people healthy. Create a system where many are working for their lives. Literally.

Anger Foot had a lot of perf issues for me on PC. Console seems to run well, the game is listed as PS5 Pro enhanced, aim assist with controller helps, and it does a good job using the haptics. While the game isn't Hotline in First Person, it certainly has the same sort of gameplay "vibes"

I broke my no double dip rule. To be sort of fair to myself, it was a $10 game that stopped running well when I moved to Linux.

LOL why is there a Direct coming for this bad movie sequel.

I may, against my better judgement, preorder Marathon. - Bungie is great mechanically. - Arc is too boring to look at. - I have $50 for selling a board game I didn't really like.

Managed to sell 2 of my board games already. Hopefully I can sell some more. I'm not really trying to get much money for them (IMO), just want the space back and most of these I'm not going to play again.

This is from the latest Slay the Spire news letter and illustrates why saying you need AI for placeholder art is absurd. You're using AI because you don't want to replace the placeholder, and you're only doing it if you get caught.

In Persona games, the gap in difficulty between Normal and Easy feels immense. I can't fathom needing to play on Story. I can't imagine that would even be enjoyable. I've been playing Reload on Easy, because I have zero interest in grind in a series where I feel the games are already too long.

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

Despite my cynicism towards the Sw2, I think there’s a bunch of games that while maybe not be objectively “best” on the platform…they certainly feel more at home there. Ball x Pitt, Hades 2, Fantasy Life i are prime examples of this in my opinion.

I enjoyed this episode a lot. Mentioned it before, but I didn't love the first season of JJK. S2, and S3 so far, have been excellent.

Dawg, if you're going to take 3wks to respond to something, at least read the fucking request. I mostly don't mind my job. It's the people that are the problem most of the time.

In case the gamers were not aware, you can... believe it or not, not buy the shiny new video game. And also to be clear "Life is sad" is not a reason to support a company that would have Cobra Commander telling them that they're going a little too far.

MSFT is just straight up cartoon villains at this point. I don't know how people give them money.

As the re-release/remaster/remake hater, I am glad that Sands of Time was canceled. I hope they cancel Black Flag too.

Politely requesting that we stop re-releasing games that no one asked to be re-released.

Nintendo releasing more Amiibo to clog up their retail presence sure seems like a choice.

:| Had to re-sign up for Facebook, because Marketplace is the only effective way to sell shit locally... and I want to clear out some of my board games.

Thinking about this some more, and if the major outlets could back away from intentional engagement bait OpEds, it would be an improvement. I very intentionally did not link, because the writer doesn't deserve attention, because the piece is embarrassing.

Came to the sad realization this morning, that despite (attempting) to play through Persona 3 multiple times, this is the first time I've got far enough to have a 4th character in my party LOL

I think I’m also at an age where F2P just isn’t enjoyable. I do not need an infinite gameplay loop that’s going to try and milk my wallet dry, while providing either subpar or excessively repetitive gameplay. Sometimes both.

Arknight Endfield has the same issue that all these gatcha games have…there’s essentially too much of everything, and most of it isn’t great. It’s overwhelming, almost intentionally. And for all the complexity, the game itself feels very shallow.

Booting up Gatcha Weeb Satisfactory.

Stalin about to come back to life and join the Board of No Famines.

In a perfect world, the entertainment press could be self-sustaining w/o having to rely on click driven nonsense, and people could treat entertainment as the art it's supposed to be... and write about the things they're actually passionate about... Rather than an OpEd about Highguard.

Why are we posting OpEds about Highguard.

Tomorrow should be a very good episode of JJK. Which should hopefully offset the whining about last weeks info dump episode.

Just saw a post about how Clair Obscur has won over 430 GotY awards, and I think even if you adore that game you have to accept that it is fucking absurd on multiple levels.

The death stranding 2 port everyone wanted

I can appreciate Tanabe's legacy at Nintendo, but I am that person that had felt like Nintendo has used their older creatives and IPs as a crutch over the past 15yrs or so, which has led to a Nintendo that's felt uncharacteristically safe (with a few exceptions).

Trump spouting the "we're the reason the allies won WWII" lie. All time classic.

Dear Indie devs/pubs, It would be appreciated if more effort was put into disclosing pricing before launch, as that space can vary wildly. Knowing that Game X will cost Y dollars (even if just in USD) would help set consumer expectations.

Despite negativity, I do think the Sw2 is an excellent device. The games that exist within the confines of the HW are great. First parties and a decent list of indies. Experiencing FF7R, CP2077, or the Ubi games in the worst possible way... just seems like a not ideal choice to make.

Nintendo fans need to be a LOT less optimistic about the future FF7 games on Switch 2 (and AAA 3rd parties in general). There is a colossal amount of copium going around for a PS4 game running and looking mostly ok-ish.

Carney's speech at the WEF has been making the rounds, and I think a lot of your political beliefs can actually be determined by if the Tiktok algorithm shows you people glazing him for it, or rightfully criticizing that a lot of that speech didn't address how we got here in the first place.

The 'Muricans were already saying stupid shit at the WEF. Trump making that worse, isn't surprising.

As it turns out "but it's portable" is not a good selling point for me when it comes to AAA stuff. I may not be the 120fps ride or die type of person, but I do think that most AAA stuff on Switch 2 has looked and run poorly enough that I can't bring myself to play most of it. FF7R is another example

2XKO is out on PS5. It's still not much fun. It has screen tearing problems. Monetization is awful.

I did it guys. I beat Goat Sim 3. I can retire happy. Game is... not great. Even the stuff that's intentionally bad is executed poorly. It's actually impressive. 11th game I've finished this year. More than I beat all of last year.

I’ve almost beat Goat Simulator 3 and I can not, for the life of me, figure out why.

Excited for a bunch of sites and people to yap about the Xbox Developer direct in a couple of days as if MSFT isn't providing support to IDF, laying off thousands of works each year, and funneling money in to AI (the worlds biggest ponzi scheme) at the cost of workers and the environment :)

Sony spinning off it's TV business and having TCL take control of it was not on my 2026 bingo card (honestly, I sort of assumed they'd just slowly shutter than part of the business)

The other day my son was being lazy, so I told him he needed to develop a grind-set mindset, and he proceed to laugh at me for about 5mins and then said that was the stupidest shit he'd ever heard. He's 10. Why don't grown men get it?

With all of Nadella's yapping about mass market acceptance of AI... we should all remember back when he said that women's super power was to not ask for raises/pay equality, because all that karma would come back to them one day. Billionaire class is literally humans w/cottage cheese for brains

It's starting to feel like the billionaires are in panic mode with AI. That they can feel people resisting in a way that we haven't resisted tech in the past.

Life is Strange is a weird franchise. The original characters aren't very good, and while LiS2 and True Colours are better stories, with better characters... no one cared, because it wasn't the same cast. Probably should have dumped the branding after the first game was done.

As a working grunt in IT, I can tell you it's because AI tools are absurdly expensive. About the same price as just keeping humans employed.

I think something is going to have to give with the games industry, or it’s headed to ruin. The price of Hardware and Software can’t continue to increase at the rate it is. Console makers are either going to have to go back to eating some of the HW cost, or lower prices on SW again.

Sony making a controller for the stolen art game, certainly feels like a choice. Also... while it's too early to really tell how things will go, Marathon is performing well on both the PSN and Steam. Maybe this is another situation where enthusiast bubble misrepresents the "feelings" toward Bungie