Just got my Steam year in review thing and DAMN the thing to the right is sure a stat, huh? Absolute fight for any new game to get a toehold.

FWIW WAKE UP DEAD MAN was absolutely about about Blanc grappling with his mother's deep Catholicism how it was related to her rejection of him and his homosexuality. It just didn't hit you over the head with it.

I sort of wish Metroid Prime 4 was worse so I'd feel better giving up on it. Intense 7/10 energy.

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I've enjoyed all of the KNIVES OUT movies, but I appreciate that WAKE UP DEAD MAN actually tries to make a cogent moral argument as opposed to just going "look at these assholes" like the other two did.

Orbitals feels like the kind of game I dreamed might exist some day when I was a kid

I legitimately wonder if the audience for the game awards and the audience for a big glossy mobile game downgrade of a real game overlaps at all.

It's amazing how much "Github being a little bit, not even all the way, borked" basically breaks a bunch of the stuff on the internet

Metroid Prime 4 absolutely feels like the third sequel to a Gamecube game (mostly derogatory) and it's kind of wild that it's the end product of a fraught near decade development and not something they quickly had to iterate out quickly over existing templates to hit the next Christmas.

Metroid Prime 4 absolutely feels like the third sequel to a Gamecube game (mostly derogatory) and it's kind of wild that it's the end product of a fraught near decade development and not something they quickly had to iterate out quickly over existing templates to hit the next Christmas.

Pluribus is a show that on the surface has very few mysteries and that seems to have broken the brains of an entire class of people watching it.

Surprised how much Metroid Prime 4 really does feel like a FOUR. It's in conversation with the other 3 games, and it follows some of the (imo pretty iffy) design directions started in MP3. Very weird for a sequel where there are now college students who weren't born yet when the last one came out.

I like logging in here and seeing someone clearly talking about today's main character and having no idea what they are talking about.

Also: I do wonder if they uploaded that wrong version of the 4K version as a stealth way to advertise the fact that there now is a 4K version.

Going to say something contrary here as someone who just finished a Mad Men rewatch: Mad Men, a show always composed in 16:9 and HD but mastered sloppily in a way filled with compression artifacts (even on bluray) ~absolutely~ needed a new remaster from source.

I just earnestly said "Hbomberguy is the Isaac Chotiner of nerd shit" very earnestly in a conversation.

Just saw a "y'all ever see a take so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?" take about Plurbis and it's ruining my day

Not even sure it's a knock on it, but the new Stranger Things has big "storytelling lifted directly from a high production AAA videogame" energy.

Still bugs me that the original plan for the Picard show was "retired Picard solves small stakes Agatha Christie style mysteries in rural France" and the powers that be (either Paramount/Viacom or Patrick Stewart) nixed that.

Man, searching for music on YouTube really is running you into slop these days huh? (No this revelation was not spurred on by searching for "Maybe Tomorrow: Metal Cover" why do you ask?)

Finally finished my Mad Men rewatch. Still amazing to me that the show could do an ending as genuinely hopeful and genuinely cynical as that and not have either aspect really cancel the other out in any way.

I sort of love the angle this book comes at Star Wars history conceptually: It's a history of the Galactic Empire from the perspective of a member of the rebellion/resisitance who tries to keep academic distance, but can't quite keep his dislike of more radical elements of the rebellion fully hidden

So much of Mad Men would be solved if Don had even the mildest of modern anti-depressants and a c-pap machine

Wait, that super milquetoast and perfectly boring star wars ranking has started a ~discourse~? THAT did it? Don't do anything stupid today folks, bluesky is out there begging for a main character.

2 factors behind people holding onto phones longer that go beyond "world is just bad": - Phone tech slowed. If a phone from 5y ago is in working order, it's utility is not that different from a new phone. Wasn't true 10y ago. - Battery lifespans MUCH better now, mostly because of better software.

I believe it's still canon in The Matrix universe that Morpheus died in a limited time event in an MMO that's now been shuttered for 16 years.

As an elder millennial it's pretty chilling to know statistically that someone close to me is almost certainly going to die of cancer because the testing/rollout of mRNA cancer treatments is going to be delayed by 5 years to a decade.

Honestly, I kind of hate that a 4chan term that basically means "hobby-grade masturbation" has made it into the mainstream lexicon.

As an elder millennial it's pretty chilling to know statistically that someone close to me is almost certainly going to die of cancer because the testing/rollout of mRNA cancer treatments is going to be delayed by 5 years to a decade.

Doing a Mad Men rewatch: the arc of Pete Campbell is a fascinating one. He's a genuinely better and more seasoned person at the end of the show than he was at the start ... but he gets there without suffering any major consequences for his bad/abhorent behaviour over the course of the show

If there is one (1) thing that I wish BlueSky would apply from algorithmic feeds is I wish I had a setting to make it so I don't see a post reposted more than once. If it's been in my feed while I was looking, I don't see it again.

I love how you see people posting about their "fail meals" and it's like a 10-step recipe that involves three different fresh ingredients, a bunch of chopping, and 40+ minutes cook time.

You don't need to re-share the engagement-farming hate-share. It was written that way to get you to hate share it. You don't need to do it. You don't.

THE CHALLENGE is a fascinating competition reality show. It has 2 seasons a year, and the show is primarily returning cast members, so "winning" is less beating the final challenge and more maintaining your spot on the show's roster. And winning the challenges is only part of being able to do that.

A bad AI vid got posted into my feed as a dunk and I scrolled way down in the comments and couldn't find a single one (of hundreds!) pointing out the video is clearly built intentionally in the uncanny valley to drive hate engagement. How is it 2025 and people still can't clock engagement farming?

Lots of reasons why Steam has market dominance as a PC games storefront (first-mover advantage most obvious), but I think it gets undersold how much a privately held company simply has more incentives to make customer-friendly decisions over the long term than a publicly traded one does.

The best part of every Slow Horses finale is always that they give you a little trailer for the next season showing that they've already shot it, and it will be coming at a regular, predictable pace in 11 months.

Unless I'm totally missing the boat on what it says, the new UCP strike-busting law to end the teachers labour action makes collective negotiation essentially illegal full stop (or at least gives the government an avenue to say so). Am I missing something there? That's ... unideal.

Buck Martinez very wistfully saying "someone is going to have a broken heart" is sure a mood

Uhgh I have to go to bed. (Hope I didn't jinx it)

I say it every time that the price of videogames is the ~discourse~ but I paid (adjusted for inflation) $200 for Chrono Trigger in 1996, and it was worth it.

I don't know that cinema can ever top this scene from the network TV show </SCORPION>

A whole lot of air being used up on the possible moral universe of the nazi tattoo dude when the fact he's just toast from a realpolitik perspective kind of makes the whole thing moot, no?

A whole lot of air being used up on the possible moral universe of the nazi tattoo dude when the fact he's just toast from a realpolitik perspective kind of makes the whole thing moot, no?

Legit this would be AAA-prestige TV

If you are voting in #yeg election today (and probably the #yyc one as well), be ready for some long lines. The fact that voting cards weren't send out has slowed down the overall process considerably. Possible you might be lucky and done in 10 mins but any slowdown is going to cause big delays.

Like, I know this is a dunk on AI or whatnot, but it unfortunately sounds metal as all hell.

I know it's fashionable to dump on the Skydome/Rogers Centre, but I do sort of love how they looked at the Big O and went "let's do the opposite of all of that" and now almost 40 years later it's still going pretty strong.

I was looking for something that was basically just "DRAGON'S CROWN but 1/3 of the characters aren't cringe waifus" so ABSOLUM is seemingly EXACTLY that game.

Randomly thinking about the person who tried to get us all to read A LITTLE LIFE at my work book club.