White guy avi

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Was waiting in line to contest a ticket for dismal at one of the tiny micro-cities inside Houston. Kid you not, it was just a bunch of white folks walking out no-contest and another line of AAs getting filed up to actually try their cases.

I’m sure this was a coincidence. Also, the sheriff looking interchangeable with the Sheriff Rosco from Dukes of Hazzard, a pure coincidence.

This is what happens when you let the guys at Area 51 into the design team

Yas Queen.

The only correct controller.

In my experience, you almost never used the D-pad and C-stick.

That made it functionally in line with PS, and not terribly difficult to adapt into.

I do think the central A with surrounding B, X, and Y buttons was worse than the balanced design of PS/XBox. Just not enough to lose sleep over

Retvrn 2 Tradition

11D chess. You actually win if your oppenent queens their pawn and spends a turn dabbing on you.

This was a master class.

Heavy debate happening on the short bus of politics

What’s he going to do? Rebuild the twin towers so the Saudis can knock them back down again?

Okay but that was very useful and generally beneficial

What?

We are reliving 1998 with a twist

Thomas Jefferson Approved

I was dumb in many ways in my 20s.

You’re not really in your 20s if you aren’t doing a certain amount of stupid bullshit

I’ve seen this on Pornhub

this game is actually fantastic,

Without a doubt. It’s on my list.

I can’t think of anything else this year that would surpass Clair Obscur in any of those categories.

Silksong, Outer Worlds 2, and Eldin Ring: Nightsong leap to mind.

You wouldn’t believe it, but some people still think the solution is to install windows

After 170 years? A story about the young working class seeking simple comforts through ruthless ecological exploitation? And for this humble crew to be swept up in a prideful crusade towards wealth and glory lead by a charismatic madman intent on killing God? And this crusade culminates in a calamity that destroys everything their exploitative labors sought to build?

I can’t think of any modern parallels. But if one were to arise, I could see a certain sympathetic appeal.

I mean, good for them and all. But… I hate when these award shows do this shit. Narrowing the universe of “award winning” games down to “One Title Wins Everything” feels so hack.

You need to get on board for what is, at its heart, a blog about being a whaler in the 19th century. The story isn’t gripping in the sense of a two minute movie trailer, but it does draw you in and lead you to care about a bunch of the crew as it drags on. It is the quintessential “slow burn” novel.

But it isn’t even the worst on that front. Any Brian Sanderson novel is going to have a similar “omg, is this going anywhere? And why won’t they just kiss already? Damn, now I know entirely too much about an obscure magic system methodology of turning whale cum into lighter fluid” element.

One book I could argue genuinely reads better on audiobook when you’re stuck in traffic for two hours a day.

Unironically a great novel. If you can understand Moby Dick, you can understand the first 200 years of American history.