I can name pretty much every beat that happens in Halo 2, and some of which happen in 4, 5. But Halo 3? Nothing. Literally the only thing I remember about that is you find a 'king halo', like the boss halo that controls all the other ones, that's it

I think the highest praise of a video game story is probably: "if someone asks a player about it 6 months after they completed the game, they can still remember and recite some of the events that occurred in the plot". Because I started Outer Worlds 2 and I remember NOTHING of the first game

She oddly is NOT there to yell at her brother/whatever for marrying and having kids outside of his species, which is something that actually happens in the game, and real fucked up

Ok I'm wracking my brain and I think I have it (spoilers if I'm not wrong):
* She's there to yell at Zelda for her dumbshit plan to become a magical floating dragon-cloud to not die of old age before Link gets his sword back
* Something about that dumb mechsuit garbage I hated

Do you want to see third-rate Zelda character Mineru in your Animal Crossing game!? No, she's not that character. No not that one either. She's like the ... sister? I guess?... of the magical goat guy in the past world-- no I have no idea why she was there or what she had to do with anything

Just noticed a bizarre printing error on this Cheers boxset, where for some reason the name of the show is missing. Lends it a real air of menace.
"The bar where everybody knows your name, b̫ͯủ̗t̞̄ ̪ͫn͉̋o͖̓b̪͗ȏ̠d͂ͅẏ̲ m̯͕̐̈́̕͢u̻̻ͩ̀͜͞s̶̢̯̲̈̇t̢̡͙͔̽̿ ̴ͣ͒҉̥͈e̵̻̝̐̌͝v̴̸̞͉̏ͦě̵̥̙ͤ̀r̆́͏̸͇̮ ̡̲͙̃̿͝ k̽ͭ̾͏̥͉̙́͝n̴̡̫̫̘͋̈́̓͘o̢̻̗̲ͨͨͬ́͡wͪ͌͒͏̛̝̣̖͞ ̛ͣ̈́̂͏͕̠͜ͅî̶͓̟̜̓̐͝͝t̳̩͓̆́̚͜͠͝s̨̡̛̝̭͉̽̃ͧ ̢̧ͫ̊̏͏̟͇̗N̸̷̊̏̌͂ͭ͆́҉̯͎͎͈̰͈͝͞Ä́͑ͦ̆̑͗͜͏̸̛̯͚̺͓̘̩͘͠M̶̸̲͕̞̠͖̹̈́̇ͦ̑̉ͧ͢͟͜͡E̸̴̢͛͂͒ͬ͋͗͠͏͇͕̣̥̭̜͟"

"What if someone can't play a game due to the login server being down?"
"ALARM ALERT ALL HANDS ON DECK EMERGENCY!"
"What if they can't play due to your auto-updater taking over an hour to update the game files?"
"Eh, we don't care about that, not a problem. Fuck 'em."

Apparently all gaming companies just fucking gave up on that concept entirely. Fuck you, player. Fuck you up the ass. You hit the Play button but you can't play. We hate you.

Remember about... 10-12 years back when game companies made a big deal about how you can play the game while it's updating? "World of Warcraft will just download what it needs while you play!" "Xbox One has a mode where the game can play right away and download higher resolution textures later!"

Just make the progress bar read "FUCK YOU!" since that's the message I'm getting anyway, just cut to the chase

Making it worse is it's one of those updaters which constantly resets the progress bar to 0%.
(Updating multiplayer - 100%) "Oh good, now I can pla--" (updating singleplayer - 0%)
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE POINT OF HAVING A PROGRESS BAR IF IT CONSTASNTLY RESETS ITSELF TO ZERO? THIS IS WORSE THAN USELESS!

I don't see how video game companies don't see "it takes a fucking HOUR after hitting the play button before you're actually playing the game" as a problem, apparently. How is this considered normal? And not "this product is fatally flawed"?

Thought I'd play a quick round of Battlefield 6.
(update required)
Sigh fine, update.
(40 minutes later, STILL FUCKING UPDATING)
Fucking christ, just forget about it

That's just a mirror

Review of Outer Worlds 2:
* "Incognito" is a stupid name for a spaceship
* Incognito is a stupid-looking spaceship

I want a restaurant that perfectly replicates the experience of the first time you go to a school friend's house for dinner. A plate of food where everything is just ever-so-slightly wrong, at a table with a family that is politely falling apart.

And they buy Hunts ketchup instead of Heinz

If Lola really got everything she wanted, she probably wouldn't have had to write a song to convince you of that

29 Oct 2025

Amazon's shutting down their game studios. I predicted they would give up on it, but to their credit they lasted a lot longer than Google

Barbecue Law

Musk has a worst-documented case of Fight Club Brain (for fans of Fight Club, the movie about cool fights)

if the blue jays win the world series, they will need to ensure that every member of their roster is at least 21 years old before celebrating with champagne. this is because the legal drinking age in canada is 21, with the exception of quebec, where the legal drinking age is also 21

It irritates me that a lot of the british media are using headlines like 'Thousands of British tourists remain stranded in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa' Completely over looking the rest of the poor bastards that live there who have lost everything.