I'm actually turning into a "get politics out of sports" guy. Why do they sing the national anthem at basketball games. Stop that

I've beaten the drum about not liking dialogue via on-screen portraits before, but now it feels more superfluous than ever. Yukiko's 3D model is almost as big on screen as her portrait. Surely we don't need it to be there?

"Bluesky is an echo chamber" Look at the replies, bro. This website has a whole contingent of anarcho-primitivists

Everybody thought Sega was about to finally have their moment in the sun. Instead they shot themselves in both feet several times each

I've never been to a Denny's. I'm reading their menu now. You can get a milkshake spiked with liquor. I had no idea Denny's was licensed.

It's kind of funny to see people describing the Persona 6 reveal as being much darker than the past games. First time?

Most flattering: Buddy Holly Least flattering: Woody Allen

Finished Hi-Fi Rush. Great game. The rhythm elements can be a bit unnecessarily constructing at times, but it also provides a sensation uncommon in action games.

"lore accurate" is quickly becoming one of my least favourite phrases

It is very funny that the least realistic part of the Street Fighter 6 Season 4 leak ended up being the only accurate part

Final Fantasy VIIR part 3 but the R stands for Racism

I've been listening to A Tribe Called Quest a lot lately and the more I listen, the more I think they have to be the greatest hip-hop group of all time. Three undisputed classics in a row and a phenomenal comeback album puts them at the peak, even if their other two albums aren't quite as good.

I try not to put too much faith in what people say is going to be shown at gaming events. Remember when a bunch of guys collectively hallucinated a Devil May Cry 6 announcement?

Every time a Northernlion clips goes viral with people saying "yoooo this guy is spitting!" it's just him giving some surface-level criticism of another game while playing absolute dreck in the background

Unfortunately the most impact I've had on the internet is that I once called Randy Rainbow racist and the post was featured in a Pink News article

The Code Veronica remake is probably real and it's probably been in development for the last few years, but I hope Requiem being such a smash hit shows Capcom that they don't need to keep doing this. The first batch of remakes successfully brought the series back to the upper echelons. Move on!

I'm increasingly convinced that Street Fighter players and Tekken players, at least the ones who are the most vocal online, are mostly non-overlapping groups. No other way to explain the difference in how they react to things.

Just learned Kenny Beats is 201cm tall. Geese? He should be producing for the Hawks instead

I know I'm beating a dead horse here but it's crazy how overtly racist everything on the former Twitter is. I just wanted to know what "dat bih gah" means and the replies are like reading Der Sturmer.

If Persona 6 stuff is going to keep leaking then I need them to hurry up and show me who the Priestess arcana belongs to. My heart can only take so much of this

Sliming the rat

Kurt Eichenwald

Simon and Mia on my bed at the same time? It's more likely than you think

I have some leniency for the idea of AI-generated concept art in game development, not because I like it, but because it was almost certainly the product of some producer demanding an AI-generated concept in early development and the staff figured it was easier to hand one in than to argue.

"Silent Hill should be in presented in first-person perspective" -someone who is not to be trusted

The current state of Tekken is a great demonstration of how nobody knows what they want. Some guys have spent the past year demanding that Harada and Ikeda be fired for ruining Tekken. Now both of them are gone and they're complaining that this means Tekken is dead.

Rumblings of an impending Persona 6 announcement, which means it's time to relitigate all of the most tedious arguments you've ever heard for the umpteenth time.

???

First day of Pride Month song of the day

Setting them up for disappointment when the Spurs win in 6

I often think about how Anthony Burgess said his ideal form of government was a Catholic Jacobite restoration but given that was not feasible, he would settle for anarchism

Had a dream I was catsitting for my grandmother. I had to go the pet store for some stuff, but when I got there, someone convinced me to adopt two dogs. I did so and brought them back, only to realize my grandmother would now be burdened by these dogs, and started thinking "can you return a dog"

Can we get some Fs in the chat for Grogu?

Just learned that flat earthers say atmosplane and hemisplane because they reject the notion of earth being a sphere. That's so cool

Not normally one to play fan games and ROM hacks but Super Mario Eclipse is good and has a moment that actually made me laugh out loud

Remembering the episode of Everybody Love Raymond in which Ray thinks his daughter is looking for a rare trading card because it's worth a lot of money, but he buys it for her when he learns it's actually just her favourite character. If you made that today, the roles would be reversed.

Would be an interesting case study to look at Ingrid and Athena and how they're very similar in a lot of ways but Athena is a natural fit for The King of Fighters but Ingrid feels completely out of place in Street Fighter.

Have to say I'm a little confused by the privacy first search engine that requires an account

Capcom had the opportunity to make a less annoying Ingrid, and they chose to make a more annoying Ingrid

Super Mario Sunshine modding has come a long way, and there are some impressive mods out there now, but I don't think anything will ever replace Super Mario 64 modding. The biggest reason is that Sunshine's mechanics are peculiar to the game; 64's mechanics are agnostic and can be in any context.

Vanilla Ice is a known MAGA supporter so he's probably locked in, meaning the world waits with bated breath for Flo Rida to do something very funny

If the president right now were anyone other than Trump, imagine the lineup they would have for the 250 years celebration. But instead the best they can do is Vanilla Ice and unsuccessfully tricking Bret Michaels and Young MC into performing.

Can only speak of my experience, but as a kid, I didn't want to read books that were obviously for kids. I wanted to read books that made me feel like an adult. Maybe those books were for kids, but they didn't feel condescending. "Modernizing" books like this is as patronizing as it gets.

Starting to think Mogwai had a point about him

Phantom Liberty has a fascinating relationship with Metal Gear Solid because parts of it are just drawing from the same things that influenced Metal Gear (Escape From New York, James Bond, etc) but other parts are clearly directly inspired by Metal Gear.

Finished Phantom Liberty

WARNING: USER IS ABOUT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT BLUESKY USERS I always find it funny when people here complain about the algorithm. I thought we were trying to get away from that. It's like complaining about the hamburgers at a Chinese restaurant. END OF COMPLAINT

Sakura Kasugano

Why is every video game thumbnail like this now