It's been patched a lot. I replayed it late 2024 and most notably the on-repeat busywork missions were mostly gone. It was still so flawed, but I'll always stand by it's conceptually interesting and addictive territory-control single player mode, which is why I can feel it pulling me back in. gaming

concerning: I'm having Crime Boss: Rockay City cravings again

god i love an action game with a middle aged bloke driving cars

Samson is one of the most @minimme.bsky.social coded games in recent memory

never heard of fruity pebbles in my life

I reckon the whole Bloodborne remaster thing fans have been on about for the last x years is in poor taste. you can go outside and trip over a new souls game every week. just play one of those. there are some of us who want a new burnout or motorstorm game. think of us next time. I am not a crackpot

i swear to god if the bloodborne movie isnt at least 60fps im gonna

Why would anyone watch a Bloodborne movie when BLOODBORNE LORE EXPLAINED [4K} [60fps] (04:48:31) is right there?

I'm planning to but funnily enough I want to finish MindsEye first which also feels very me lol

that's crazy, here I am actively avoiding news to keep my head on

this was one of my childhood games actually, haven't thought about it in ages. my first exposure to manual transmission

emulation still offers the greatest equality of access to retro gaming, and retro gaming belongs to The People not collector dorks

this game has a really high how-good-it-looks to how-good-it-actually-is ratio

I actually quite like good long audio content to listen to while I'm doing chores or driving, I even like recaps when they're good (I listened to a 20 hour audiobook of The Sopranos once), but I just reckon a lot of youtube essays in particular feel long when they shouldn't be

After the first 30 minutes I clocked out because it just felt like Things Happening On The Screen but then because I let go I enjoyed what it was. It also feels like there was really nothing to latch on to for the first bit. Things really are just going on. But it's all very pretty and whimsical!

spot on

Just as an aside, my writing process always had me writing too much and then editing it shorter and shorter until I was happy. When I had to rush a video for a sponsor, those videos often ended up being kinda long and I'd often regret not cutting more. Creative processes are funny things hey

We all blame the YouTube algorithm for those super long verbose essays that feel like they're repeating themselves too much which is fair, but I reckon this is a big big part of it too

I reckon a trap a lot of video essay youtubers fall into (me included I'm sure) is feeling like every argument needs to be extremely robust and evidenced to account for annoying "um actually" style comments. If you give those comments any credence at all you will start writing defensively

It’s so surreal how people talk about critics as if they’re like some strange other species of person, isolated from all forms of culture outside of critique, incapable of being a fan of anything or having fun, and if they don’t like something, it’s because it’s Not For Them

Yeah the more I recall it the more I think Prisoners was good and I was being too harsh, but the other two I found very dull and they seem closer to his other films from the last decade

Sicario, Blade Runner 2049, and Prisoners (which I easily liked the most of the three)

I don't but defs thinking about it, and yeah maybe it'd be best I just use it as a logger

speaking of letterboxd I saw someone give a well-reasoned negative review of a popular movie and all the comments were digging into their history being like "a-ha! you like THAT movie so of course your opinions are shit!" like golly even the wholesome movie review website has shit comments lol

one of my film hot (bad?) takes is that I find Denis Villeneuve movies extremely boring but I've only seen 3 of them, and now if I watch another I'd be going in with a "oh here we go again with another boring denis movie" bad attitude that would not be fair so I just don't. letterboxd would eat me

isn't it funny too how if a racing game has boost mechanics and rubber-banding, the optimal strategy without exception is saving up all your boost until the final stretch and using it all at once to out-cheat the AI

I've been enjoying Ridge Racer 2 on the PSP and it's crazy how good the game feels and looks, but I've reached a race where you can't win unless you brake check the opponent because they always rubber band and fly past you on the last lap even if you drive perfectly which is really cool game design

New cursed controller to add to the collection. 😵

it’s awful

What the hell lol

love it lol. it's crazy to me how it hits a point very often where emulating is a lot less hassle than playing a windows game on windows machine