Everyone I’ve recommended CO to and took me up on it – loved it. But I have other friends that have heard me talk about the game and I just “know” it’s not for them and if they play, they’ll be ranting about the mechanisms and other things.

For me, it made me wish I was French :P I love the aesthetic, story, and characters for sure. It’s different than FF to me because it seemed like FF got embarrassed by its turn-based gameplay over time and it feels like CO embraced it fully.

Also, I heard the fanbase can be rather toxic as well. Once again, that sometimes happens with more popular games too. I was watching a few streamers that said they’d want to put it as their GOTY but some fans were just doing a lot of bullying. After playing the game, I understand their passion for it … but it can sour other people’s expectations and experiences for sure.

Americans saw this and said, “this is fine”

Update: I’m using the term “Americans” as the majority of American voters in 2024.

Is it any surprise? Any game that’s more popular gets a lot more contrarians.

I’m expecting to pay around what the Index costs. I can get a Quest for quite a lot less but I’m refusing all of that Meta business.

I feel the same … I don’t have the same amount of hours to put into a game like this.

Mark Kermode is a film critic that I absolutely adore.

He had the Kermode Awards every year (he’s quite self-deprecating about it) … the winners for his awards are ones that cannot be nominated by the Academy Awards.

It’s normally to highlight the missing actors/actresses/movies that he’s enjoyed over the year. Feels like something like that would be cool too.

I feel as though games need more categories. Even best VR game seems limiting to me because I don’t care for horror so I’ll never look into that game either.

Best metroidvania, Best rogueli[k|t]e, Best puzzle game, Best Turn-Based RPG, Best Soulslike Game (I’m assuming that’s what “best game you suck at” is), Best Rhythm game, Best Couch Co-op Game, Best FPS, etc

Obviously there can be flaws with my examples but there are just so many different types of games out there. It just feels limiting to have what we have.

I bought Arc Raiders and I was like, “oh it’s just an extraction shooter”

I was very surprised it won. I think people like their game and just want it to win something.

The problem is that is goes into the “sphere”. Click on one video and it feeds into many others.

I used to think it was a smaller section and then my streamer friends complain about “woke”. The thing that always gets me is when someone says: “I don’t mind a minority character as long as it makes sense for them to be there”. Oh right, minorities should explain our existence shall we? I would like to think that they mean when social commentary feels shoehorned or there’s corporate pandering (which I think we can have discussions about) … however, we don’t need to suffer from woke-paranoia just because someone doesn’t fit the mould. I remember the Star Trek Beyond “controversy” and when the scene happened I didn’t even register it because it was so forgettable to me.

I’ve been in arguments with friends about how “how many genders we have …” and I have to be like, there’s so few actual trans people and trans issues that are “in your face” to get as worked up as you guys are …

Sorry I went on a deeper rant than I should have.

They also sold Tomb Raider alongside Deus Ex … Thief, Legacy of Kain …

Sold all of these and a few studios to focus on NFTs. Although I think their other reason was to focus on their “eastern” properties.

I felt Stadia had potential but I also thought they should have tried a game subscription model rather than the one they went with.

I very recently tried Expedition 33 with GFN and I tried turning the graphics all the way down and the lag seemed unbearable. It very well could be me, but I have a fibre optic connection with typically low ping. It could just be where I’m situated or maybe there’s more configuration I didn’t figure out. I know others still like and use the service.

I tried it to play a few games. I’ve had some controller issues and then the quality and frame rate seems really bad for me. I know it was great for others, but I don’t know what settings I needed to get a smooth game going.

I was actually interested in this service because I felt like building a gaming PC for just a few games I play once in a while outside of my Steam Deck could be worth it.

I think that was the origins of it and can be celebrated that way.

However, I feel it has most certainly been hijacked by religion and capitalism since then in certain parts of the world.

I enjoy it due to having time off, so I’ll take that :P

I think they’re stupid too. Going into an interview is already stressful enough and these types of questions don’t put me into “problem solving” mode. They put me into “brain teaser” mode which is a different type of thinking for me. You know how we nailed these questions when I was in uni? We traded them after our interviews between each other and you just had to pretend you’ve never heard it before. So the main thing people were testing was whether or not the question had made it to them.

For programming, there are so many better ways to test out of the box thinking to me … I think the “what happens when you press a letter into a web browser address bar” or something is better and at least relevant. One that I like is, “there’s an outage in production, how would you go about diagnosing it?” Then as an interviewer I’d reshape the scenario and see where they put their focus and where they give up.

I want to be a maintainer and help out but I just know it’ll be exhausting. I swap languages/projects all the time. I was on the DB (OLAP), architecture, GenAI and DevOps teams just this year alone. The context switching is really bad. I still would like to contribute but I’d want to pick a project that I used semi-regularly and it’s hard to identify when I’m so scatter-brained :/

A few at work where we’ve met up afterwards.

Traveling abroad and saw a few people and we linked up and took pictures and shared WhatsApp contacts.

I met this girl at a wine tasting and after the first date she just wants to be friends, does that count?

I think even if you get Prime you still get ads unless you pay an extra monthly fee.

lol I was gonna make that joke (I am British too)

I do think it’s overstated about how bad British food is, at least nowadays but at the same time, we’re self-deprecating so lines up.

“I like to laugh”

I mean, I’ve never seen someone have a giggle and then frown and say: “that fucking sucked”

Summer nights are okay but I hate mosquitoes so I don’t get to enjoy them as much as I’d like.