me from now on every time someone defends microtransactions: “oh so you mean that thing JEFFREY EPSTEIN invented?”

when the game is called 'Man of Brutality: Honor's War' and the cover is a traumatized-looking guy covered in blood:
"ah a nice easy game to blast through over the weekend"

when the game is called 'The Fairy Princess and the Quest for Cotton Candy' and you're on level 2:

my name gone from the screenshot...

there is a deep sadness to how often people talk about how we can more effectively simulate meaningful social bonds with video game characters. like guys. please. you need friends. the cast of persona is not going to fill the void in your heart, ever. you need actual friends who love you.

i think a lot of people (incorrectly) view art as a substitute for having real experiences. they want to climb a mountain, but either can't, or won't. so they play a game about climbing a mountain, and they get mad it doesn't simulate filtering your own piss to make drinking water out of.

thank the lord someone said it (go read the article)

nobody else is posting it this year?

radical and crazy opinion but i think "conservative" game design is when you take something that was bold and risky in its era, sand down all the rough edges, and insert a mechanic from the last hit game to come out. many indie developers are deeply conservative in a way their inspirations were not.

i say this in reference to shmups but it's really the whole medium. games from 30 years ago that were and still are deeply experimental and weird are "conservative," because they're old, but a game from this year that plays like "slay the spire clone with a slight twist #5 billion" is "innovative."

sometimes i think about doing the final boss in zeroranger but then i remember the first part of the level and i decide not to play it

What would a "subject-oriented" programming look like

I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.

Death in Abyss - Review YouTube video by Eleanor Red

new video youtu.be/2ttG5BvNhXA

you know it had to be done

It's lost to time but AJ saying that he only bought the Switch in the first place for SMT V, Bayo 3 and Metroid Prime 4 is retroactively one of the funniest posts of all time

refering to ursula k. le guin's thoughts on tech for a videogame mechanics discussion

walls are a mechanic, turning is a mechanic, hitstun is a mechanic, jumping is a mechanic, physics are a mechanic, a ton of load-bearing mechanics aren't really that flashy and they don't need to be

every year, this guy gets to go on stage and tell you and everyone else which video games deserve to be called art and which do not. he licked boots and kissed ass until he had proven he deserved the Dorito Crown, and now he gets to use it. oh how i hate this absolute worm.

i genuinely believe that the rise of geoff keighley from "widely-mocked G4 washup" to "the self-appointed and widely-acknowledged representative of video games as both an industry and an artform" is critical to understand. you must grasp exactly how much nobody wanted this except him.

looked up the etymology of "doujin" and it literally means "same-person", as in denoting shared interests amongst people, while "indie" is short for independence, for solitude and iconoclasm.... really makes you think (smokes bubble pipe)

my boring unpopular answer is that there are literally thousands of actively running manga at any given time and if you're looking for well realized female characters you should go somewhere other than McShonenJump.

gmornin oomfs

Thing that I didn't realize until I was an adult is that a lot of people live nowhere near real nature so think that farms are nature. It's a bizarre phenomenon, but it makes sense in places like Ireland or the UK

Steam is like how California operates as a second regulatory structure for the US because it's too big to not obey