Nice of them to bring back the protagonist from Spellcasting 101 Not sure why he's in a Metroid game but hey

Yes sex is good but have you ever missed playing and equipping Skullclamp for lethal, then passed the turn at one life with Mana Crypt in play only to win the undeserved coin flip and kill them on your next turn?

In fairness if I was doing a puff-piece profile of a journalist who was disgraced for having sex with a subject, it'd be extremely hard to resist trying to have sex with them just for the bit

Y’all have got to stop trying to teach people magic with edh

See I don't want to be like "oh Nintendo can't do voice writing, Nintendo can't do good writing". But it is true that I think moody atmosphere is a pillar of the Metroid games from the start and making the game chatty is a baffling creative decision from that standpoint!

No way to talk about this without getting banned off this website

like on the one hand I get it but on the other hand if you try to talk me into improving the play experience for someone who is half-playing-half-scrolling tiktok I will bite you. I will take a chunk out of your flesh with my teeth.

question for metosport perverts, which of the F1: Drive to Survive seasons are good, if any?

lmao That's ridiculous and can only be correct with horribly skewed averages + very biased sampling (both, in this case). I was making $150k as a Senior Designer at Bungie with 15 years of industry experience in one of the highest-paying job markets in a high cost-of-living area with geopay

"More like metroidBRAINLESS"

I just wanna preface my next post by saying that it is A Joke. Please don't be mad. Do you promise to not be mad? Okay, Good. Here goes.

God imagine spending $70 on a game and then however much on top on DLC. For this garbage.

The "player felt a negative emotion for a moment in a playtest, that's now a Pri 1 problem" instinct in AAA prod is a huge tarpit for our industry

Honestly watching the actual Metroid 4 footage, the main problem doesn't seem to be 'nag barks' (though there are a couple that are... pretty bad individually in terms of their apparent implementation) but just having A Guy chasing around Samus reacting to everything, thus killing the mood.

friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.

I wonder if, every day or two, film people are all on social media like ‘fuck wide shots, lazy. Indicative of societal trends and also massively patronising to the cinema going audience. All my films are shot mid and close up, because I make art’ I bet they do.

If you're making a game for the players who absolutely need extremely high-frequency nagging barks from an NPC, you're kind of making a game for no one *but* those players

"What's your most woke opini—" go away, I'm not getting myself banned off this website

The problem with "just don't post death threats" is that various media outlets and government agencies are also on this website *actually* making actionable threats of death (or apologia thereof) but Jay et al don't give a shit, they care about someone saying "I think JKR should eat a bag of nails".

If you can, please help my friend help his dad stay housed:

Probably the funnest minor undercurrent of discourse on here this week were the people who were snidely performing annoyance that someone might point out Starbucks' coffee tastes bad

Like how are you supposed to take a paper that writes these headlines seriously? Irredeemably useless fake institution staffed by nepo babies and sycophants.

I think people are unwilling to give the NYT and its staff the benefit of the doube because they [checks clipboard] have been able to observe and think about the NYT's behavior as an institution on virtually all issues for the last 20 years. Hope this helps

Kind of insane that writing a blog post attempting to plant flags on a quasi-taxonomy of half a dozen different genre terms has caused people to nitpick the exact boundaries. Can't believe this is happening

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Unfair Flips is now just 29 reviews away from hitting the 1000 mark!!

> AI-generated content not allowed [gritting teeth] you do not gotta hand it to jack dorsey. you do not gotta hand it to jack dorsey. you do not gotta hand it to jack dorsey. you do not gotta hand it to

When you start taking meaningless game actions to delay getting to your draw step with an empty library after I Brain Freeze you out, please understand that I love it. Keep doing that shit. Your flailing misery is delicious to me.

paying thirty bucks a month so I can get that *disney adult* slop

7-1, would have gone 7-0 if Arena hadn't disconnected me from the server while I was going off one round. Not pictured: Lurrus companion.

Evidence that we live in a false demiurgic reality: a hand of chrome mox, land, underworld breach, lion’s eye diamond, brain freeze, and ponder isn’t actually a turn 1 kill on the play.

Me normally: advertising doesn't work on me. I am immune to propaganda Me seeing the Steam Guys:

What video game writers got right: how explicit and on the nose crime emails are What they got wrong: how articulate, readable, and informative they are

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

The problem with people increasingly using "puzzle game" to super-expansively mean any game that might require thinking is that it's not a very useful term when you start lumping Stephen's Sausage Roll, sudoku, Myst, and Epigraph under the same umbrella.

I guess happy photoshop your depraved Bowser art onto that one still from the new movie trailer day, furry artists

Anyway if you like knowledge and deduction games may I point you towards KINOPHOBIA, my exorcist-detective game about ghosts, movies, and movie stars that are ghosts? brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia

I will say this for the Valve announcement: it is refreshing to see a product launch that is just "here's a product that you might want. here's what it is. here's what it does" with absolutely no mention of AI, mysterious future features that might arrive OTA, or some extractive business model.

azhdarchid.com/against-metr... I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.

My heroes are all dead and my enemies are fucking morons

Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it

it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.

To save you a click, the list is: Ambrosio Minsky Two of Everything Caddy Shack 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold

Someone please hire me so I can afford one of each piece of hardware Valve announced today.

It's 1990. A tech company is launching a new computer shaped like a cube. It's 2000. A tech company is launching a new computer shaped like a cube. It's 2025. A tech company is launching a new computer shaped like a cube.

Keighley being an absurd tyrant who runs TGA as a personal fiefdom is a known thing within the industry. TGA trailer slots are largely handed out on the basis of who/what Keighley likes, eg. I know of at least one studio who tried to conceal that they hired someone because Keighley hated them.

Magic Arena has a new cube, and so I wrote about my impressions. Overall: really happy this is here, having a blast, but I have Some Notes azhdarchid.com/impressions-...

Still thinking back to various director-level industry people whom I personally saw go to bat for Tim Sweeney's dumb behavior and bad opinions and then less than a year later talk about using AI to write internal documentation on a project and thinking that made them look smart

I just fundamentally do not care about what the CEO of Nexon or Tim Sweeney have to say because they are simply not qualified to discuss the issues they're talking about.

After multiple listens I think this new one might be my favorite Mountain Goats album since.... god, Dark In Here? Goths? Surely not *Tallahassee*, that's be crazy, right? Right?