I have a lot less patience for story games these days. Trying Death Stranding 2 and while I remember enjoying the first one this one feels so much more boring and slow to get going. I remember in DS1 being scared and in awe of the world, this one is just kind of delivery simulator from the start.

I don’t get Air Riders. I really don’t. To me it feels like Mario Kart, but worse. It’s fine, it’s fun enough, it has cute characters but the racing feels so off to me.

Going great so far

Tried Lumines Arise for an hour. Immediately refunded because it's not colorblind accessible at all on certain stages.

Dudes rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqRA...

He's found the awful truth, Balthazar www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYkv...

Every time I hear the phrase “Italian food” I think of the $30 Italian meal meme and OP going “Italian FOOOOOd”. The internet has poisoned my brain.

Expedition 33 is an indie game now? Lol we have truly ruined this qualifier.

Oh baby

The Album of the Week is Axexan, espreitan by Moura (2022) #aotw Genre: Progressive Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Galician Folk www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb6v...

I can't tell if Game of the Year discussion is more insufferable than in other mediums because I'm not as plugged into like, the Pulitzer Prize or Best Picture or whatever. Do those have like 35 year old man children arguing about them online, too?

Glen Powell must have in his contract that he must wear at least one (1) disguise in every role.

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It’s time

Game dev pro tip: if someone questions why you are using a constant or magic number, just start calling it a “coefficient” — it sounds cooler and makes it seem like you know what you are doing.

Mandrake versus the snake, I got it on camera for posterity's [sake]

I feel like AI use falls into the optimization trap. “Wouldn’t it be cool if” I could have AI do X for me. And the amount of time it takes you to explain exactly what you want to the AI, you could have done it already.

I will probably get a Steam Cube if it is reasonably priced.

👎👎Did not care for this at all. A real bait and switch of a novel, and 200 pages too long. Not sci fi OR horror. Extremely slow paced with zero payoff at the end. Not recommended.

The Album of the Week is Farewell to Kings by Rush (1977). #aotw Genre: Progressive Rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ca...

The Terror

The dream of retro futurism is alive at the eye doctor.

Predator Badlands was surprisingly alright. I had fun.

Every game developer across the world planning a 2026 release just screamed at the same time

The Album of the Week is Living in the Past by Jethro Tull (1972). #aotw Genre: Folk Rock / Progressive Rock www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwpx...

They should get rid of daylight savings if only so my dogs arent confused about dinner time twice a year

Outer Worlds 2 is such a huge step up from 1, god damn. They cooked with this one.

Got a flaw in Outer Worlds 2 that gives me extra skill points but I can't spend into the highest one because I am all over the place in leveling up lmao. I also went Brilliant to begin with (3 specializations). Really leaning into to the Dr. Thaddeus Venture build lol

Trying to get through The Luminous Dead but this book has some of the slowest pacing I’ve ever read. And it’s not like good slow paced like building dread and mood it’s like restating the same thing over and over again, like watching Goku charge the spirit bomb for 10 episodes in DBZ.

We really need to figure out what to do with the word contemporary. Does it mean now now or the back then now? It’s becoming another biweekly.

Classic Halloween combo of gizmo and a thrift store wizard

Outer Worlds 2 good

Happy Halloween youtu.be/Yy9h2q_dr9k?...

New dinosaur just dropped www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

I'm of the opinion The Boys should have ended with Season 3 when Homelander laser eyes that guys head off for disagreeing with him in public.

Mandrake versus the snake, I got it on camera for posterity's [sake]

Evergreen Tactics RPG with a new map every few weeks and a continuous storyline.

Did a Black Sabbath cover band show over the weekend. Super fun.

Lots of games this fall imo

Oh damn. I played the demo of this a while back and it was great. Excited to dive in.

Maybe it's an old-man-yells-at-clouds thing, but I think any Alien narrative that permits softening/control of, or unspoken cooperation with the Alien itself, misses a fundamental tenant of the Alien's identity, that is representing the absolute consequence of delusions of grandeur and greed.

Sunbaby

Apocalypse trilogy now

Me When I Am Coming To Fucking Get You

I lose control of my body when I hear some good fuzz bass

I love Final Fantasy Tactics

One of the coolest breakdowns in music.

(Really loud snoring)