i've also always really appreciated this bit from his review of gamera: guardian of the universe

when i started trails in the sky i thought i was in for an innocent fantasy game and then the first two party members you get are an alchoholic, big-titty dommy-mommy and a camp, bisexual bard who are both very horny

i cannot stress enough that "separating the art from the artist" was all about "how would we interpret this work if we knew nothing about the artist" and not "is it okay to give money to bigots"

is australia just trying to criminalise everything so we can maintain our image as a country of criminals?

10% of the goal reached! Muffin is still not doing that great, but she is getting better so hopefully I don't have to take her to the vet again

seeing criterion listed here has me thinking about the truly astonishing amount of damage ea has done to racing games over the past 15-20 years. they had some of the greatest racing game studios of all time and then either fired them all or made them work on battlefield and then fired them all

i don't think any art can or should be above criticism, but i'm seeing a lot of "this thing that has meaning for a lot of people is actually dogshit and those people are stupid for liking it" and i dunno... i think that kinda sucks?

i need y'all to understand that back in 2001 movies were just allowed to end like this

archeological bullshit pulp has been my favourite genre for as long as i can remember and i'm so sad we don't get more of it

look, on the one hand i am deeply aware of the colonialist and imperialist ideas inherent in a lot of archeological bullshit pulp, but on the other hand there are very few things in fiction that get me as hyped as a character walking into an ancient ruin and solving a mechanically implausable puzzle

does hollywood know they can invent a new pulp hero? hot girl + killing nazis + random archeological bullshit, bam, you got a Picture that does not require you to spend tons of money on licenses or expensive, aging actors

any man who says playing a video game as a female character "ruins immersion" is just fundamentally lacking in both imagination and empathy

am i crazy or is the opening riff of good charlotte's girls & boys just the opening riff of don't fear the reaper but in a different key?

"Why do you hate Metacritic". I hate it when people try to use numbers to represent things that are not numbers. It offends me as a math person. We invented all these fancy ass representational structures. We have groups and fields and lattices. And you look at "Nier". And you say "this is a 7".

bioware calling mass effect "biowar" would have been the funniest piece of studio/game naming synergy since crytek called their first 2 games "far cry" and "crysis"

james bond is my favourite imperialist tool

are we ready to talk about how the spirit dream loop sequence in indiana jones and the great circle is an incredibly awful sequence in the middle of an otherwise pretty good game?

i couldn't care less about what's canon if the storytelling is good

gonna be blunt... Video Games must rvturn to this kind of interface design

i love how weird scale is in interconnected/open world video games. characters talk about travelling from one town to the next as if it takes hours or days when actually walking there in game takes maybe 15 mins at most

yo, since when the fuck are microprose back? i thought they died in like... 2002?

i love in trails of cold steel when rean summoning valimar causes sick eurobeats to start playing

microslop game studios

the next time someone tries to convince you that gen ai is good and cool actually just ask them "bro why do hate art?"

i still don't have a new job, but what i do have is a lot of thoughts about rean schwarzer

gears of war has in fact always been woke because it's about a fascist government feeding soldiers into a meat grinder of a war to defend a society that they themeselves destroyed because they couldn't help but create subhuman mutants instead of giving people proper medical treatment

i know linux can seem scary if you've never used it and are only familiar with the memes about how obtuse it is, but if my dumb ass can figure out how to get a cracked copy of wolfenstein 2009 running on it then you should be able to figure out how to check your emails and use a word processor on it

if you ever want to understand the difference between silent hill and resident evil, just remember that sh2 and re7 both start with the near identical premise of "generic blond everyman receives a message from his (presumed) dead wife telling him to come find her in the middle of nowhere" (1/2)

if your movie collection doesn't have at least a couple of movies that make people go "that's such a bad movie, why would you have that?" then you probably have boring taste

yes i'm aware it's the meme numbers, but if you're going to do a double pack of two mainline resident evil games it's hard to think of a weirder combo than these two

the only way this world gets any better is if we care about each other

social media is really good at trying to induce fomo and i'm sorry to highguard but a pvp raid shooter that won't even run on my linux computer cos of kernel level anti-cheat is just the most uninteresting thing in the world to me

LEDs? MORE LIKE L E DEEZ NUTS!

yes i am aware of the irony of using a windows filepath as my username when i'm primarily a linux user now

with the avengers doomsday trailer cycle starting up it feels like a good time for me to bring this back

i feel like i'm often on here being grumpy but i played a bunch of cool stuff over the holidays so... uh... thread i guess?

i dont think there's a better summary of the previous decade of politics than "putting a non binary gender option in call of duty"

reader, i still have not gotten around to hollow knight

the thing you have to understand about the later fast & furious movies is that vin diesel is a dorky d&d nerd who just wants to be making multi-part fantasy epics but his only truly successful series is the one about street racers stealing dvd players

reading each post, taking a long breath, and repeating "i just don't think this needs to involve me"

Why We're Boycotting Xbox: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1...

i realise it's a day late for dragon age day, but allow me to take this excuse to repost one of the dumbest puns i've ever made

remember how the whole sales pitch when the epic games store launched was that it was more developer friendly than other storefronts (mostly steam)?

is this not the same ubisoft that literally in just the past few days were complaining that games were struggling because people are playing fewer games?

just noticed the double "actually" in this post and now i'm mad at myself

other than the craig films having an inexplicable hard-on for their own internal continuity has anyone actually ever actually cared about bond continuity? we've had 6 bonds, like... 8 felix leiters, bond's age has yo-yoed for 60-ish years, who gives a fuck?

“I don’t care what anyone says, I LOVE that movie”

it just occured to me that up until nintendo called their new console switch 2, sony was the only company that named their consoles with a sequential numbering system