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Daniel Kaszor

@dkaszor.bsky.social

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A former journalist and current writer and editor. Used to trick a national newspaper into letting me run a videogames vertical, back when videogames verticals were a thing. Avatar doodled by Chip Zdarsky in 2015.

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 3d

GOD DAMNIT!! I forgot that one. You are correct, that is the best one.

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 3d

I say it every time that the price of videogames is the ~discourse~ but I paid (adjusted for inflation) $200 for Chrono Trigger in 1996, and it was worth it.

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know that cinema can ever top this scene from the network TV show </SCORPION>

Scorpion 1x1 "Plane Scene" 1080p

YouTube video by Remember “RTS” TheScenes

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 4d

A whole lot of air being used up on the possible moral universe of the nazi tattoo dude when the fact he's just toast from a realpolitik perspective kind of makes the whole thing moot, no?

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 3d

(Which isn't to say that Halo Infinite didn't do hardcore sweaty team deathmatch really well, it did! Just that sweaty high-skill team deathmatch is a niche)

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 3d

I would also argue that Halo's signature multiplayer was big-dumb casual team battles with vehicles, and not the sweaty hardcore small-arena team deathmatch that they seemed to narrow in on.

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 3d

Something like 60% of Halo 3 owners didn't even have Xbox Live (I assume it was higher for Halo 2). Halo online multiplayer was always ~important~, and drove the conversation around them, but it wasn't why normies were buying those games.

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 4d

That said, no multiplayer is silly

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 4d

Counterpoint: The moment that the series forgot that it was a campaign game first and a multiplayer game second is when it lost it's mainstream appeal.

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, and I get that he is in the shape of an absolutely ideal Dem candidate for 2025 ... but dude is toast. 10 second rule for a candidate hitting the floor and we're 2 minutes in.

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know, the guy who got voted out first on Survivor told me he was a good candidate

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 4d

A whole lot of air being used up on the possible moral universe of the nazi tattoo dude when the fact he's just toast from a realpolitik perspective kind of makes the whole thing moot, no?

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 5d

Parasite Eve 2 is kind of a bad sequel, but on its own merits is actually a pretty great little Resident Evil-Like game that does some really great tech tricks with pre-rendered backgrounds on the PS1. (Unlike Third Birthday, which stinks)

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 5d

Legit this would be AAA-prestige TV

Ryan O’Donnell @ryanodonnell.bsky.social · 5d

If anybody wants to fund a prestige television show that starts with a bunch of knuckleheads making gaming magazines and websites and ends a few seasons later with a very conservative gaming industry and a side order of fascism, I’ve got some good ideas.

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 5d

There's a bunch of data on this, and it's more like the top 10%

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 5d

Could never tell how much it was Kojima wanting these massive systems and we ended up getting the ghosts of what was left when the it had to actually be hammered into something with a release date, or if they were spinning up the systems just for 2-30 min sequences. Probably a bit of both!

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 5d

The sequence in the video also contains the 30 second section where a crowd of civilians is running around scared during gameplay: something that never happens in the game before or after that, completely bespoke for that 30 second tiny bit of the game.

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 6d

I was having this conversation with people about TTRPGs the other day "No, you have to understand, the people playing TEMPLE OF ELEMENTAL EVIL in the 80s haaaaated the people playing DRAGONLANCE"

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 6d

If you are voting in #yeg election today (and probably the #yyc one as well), be ready for some long lines. The fact that voting cards weren't send out has slowed down the overall process considerably. Possible you might be lucky and done in 10 mins but any slowdown is going to cause big delays.

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 6d

Like, I know this is a dunk on AI or whatnot, but it unfortunately sounds metal as all hell.

jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com · Aug 3

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 6d

I know it's fashionable to dump on the Skydome/Rogers Centre, but I do sort of love how they looked at the Big O and went "let's do the opposite of all of that" and now almost 40 years later it's still going pretty strong.

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, normal fan account stuff.

Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 7d

Stealth is a fascinating account, like 90% normal fan account stuff, 10% "this person seems genuinely unhinged." Been around FOREVER nipping at the edges of the game journo world.

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 7d

USB keyboard?

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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 9d

The early GB ones were for sure "my first JRPG" (at least until the endgame of "collecting them all" when it got a bit more complex), which is part of why I kind of bounced off of them then. Now they are way more on their own separate "pokemon only" track, I think.