considering that Altman made exclusivity deals with RAM vendors not because he needs that much memory but because he wanted to deny it to his competition, yes, exactly

I’m sorry I annoyed you with my involuntary spasms

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/battleship.jpg

darkest dungeon?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

After all this he still hit another home run with Death Stranding. It sure didn’t seem like Guerrilla’s Decima engine was holding him back, even with the unconventional mechanics and weird visuals. But I don’t know, I wasn’t there for the development process.

the logs you’d find on a corpse in a final fantasy game

what risk?

what ciws doin

Specifically Portal 2 actually. Since it was designed with console players in mind, all of the puzzles can be solved without having to shoot on the move.

even if the games suck they can still be an important social connection

my parents never let me watch any of the “bad” tv that all the other kids were watching and this made it even harder for me to connect and make friends

and it also meant I never got the opportunity to decide to understand and experience for myself why these shows were bad

same can probably be said for the shitty mobile games tbh

maybe they’re more predatory than all that advertising directed at kids via tv back in my day but idk by how much really if you’re actively teaching your kids about what predatory practices look like

they have to learn, better for them to understand how to fight this stuff when they’re younger rather than when they get in over their heads gambling on counterstrike skins as teenagers

we all know how important it is to keep a sustained high rate of fire with these things

more takka if you will

*steamdb browser extension

not steam itself

they might crater the economy so badly that it wipes out a ton of carbon use and buys the rest of the world some more time (albeit probably along with millions of people starving to death, akin to Mao’s famine)

what about quebec french?

At absolute best Canada will be a territory, but that will still be “bad” since it means that people born here will be US citizens and have freedom of movement. Much more likely that we’ll end up with an Israel-Palestine type scenario where they just gradually violently displace Canadians off of any resources they want, starve us literally and economically with embargos, assassinate any non-extremist political leadership, and enslave us

When you consider that a major feature for the PS5 was a highly optimized I/O controller for a very fast SSD, I have no faith whatsoever that we’ll be seeing SD cards as a viable game storage mechanism. Unfortunately.

Truly one of the best games ever, especially in the context of when it came out. Perfect timing of the well-executed slowmo gunplay mechanics right as the matrix popularized bullet time. Story and storytelling way better than they had any right to be. Really good pacing and length. Acts broken up by genre-bending dream sequences. Great voice acting.

I think the graphics might have been the only thing about this game that wasn’t ahead of its time. They still got the job done though.

Hopefully this game gets a remake as faithful as Demons’s Souls.

download the podcasts ahead of time too smh

I coincidentally played it during covid lockdown and the thematic connections to the moment were really special. Bird flu is coming, maybe wait for the next pandemic lockdowns and try it then?