The windows phone they came out with a while back - actually wasn’t too bad. But they dropped the idea like a turd in a leaky bag, if they’d kept going and improving it they might have a competitor to android and apple by now.

This shit is just so ridiculous when you step back and look at it. . . Like at toddler play when I was a kid and they gave the boys the toy trucks and gave the girls the dolls. That was in the fuckin early 70s and it was bollocks even then. Video games are for whoever wants to play with them, and so are trucks and dolls.

I’ve been playing Control, picked it up on sale a while ago and only just got round to firing it up. I’m only about 6 hours in but it’s keeping my interest.

That said, I’ve been distracted by mewgenics, played a lot of that recently. Pirated it just to try and when I realised I was going to keep playing it I bought it. And I keep trying to start Hades but not having time.

Maybe by ‘true gamer’ they mean someone whose identity is defined by gaming? Not for me to say whether or not that’s healthy, but it’s certainly extreme. And then going further to link this identity to gender is just weird. I mean, who cares? We’re all just text on the internet to each other, what difference does gender or sexuality or race etc make to gaming? Unless it’s a game that explores those themes, it shouldn’t, but here we are.

I don’t get much screen time - work and other hobbies - but I’ve somehow got over 300 hours in cyberpunk. Also, I’m fairly new to it at the mo, but I could see myself putting a lot of hours into mewgenics.

I’m told it’s great in VR. Never tried it, but if the steam frame ever appears. . .

Imo it’s the best doom. Many people will disagree, but they’re wrong.

I’ll keep my fingers crossed! 🤞

However I kinda suspect it may be valve responding to all the gamers who have been saying they want the controller now, it doesn’t need ram so why wait to release it with the other products? I get that valve probably wanted to do a simultaneous release, but that just doesn’t seem possible any longer.

Yeah right -they are realising they fucked up and trying to correct it. It’ll be too little too late for many people - but at least they are trying. Most companies seem to pull this shit then double down when they’re criticised.

Yeah. Damn shame, but if they released the steam machine or frame at the moment, the price would probably have to be at the point it would ensure the product didn’t have a chance to catch on. Pity, I kind of want a steam frame.

When steam frame?

Yeah, also going by the steam deck I trust valve’s hardware quality.

I actually sometimes used to do this in cyberpunk, just kinda cruise round night city. I think there are lots of games that allow you to do this sort of thing.

Yeah same. I’ve wishlisted it and I’m sure I’ll pick it up in a sale. It looks good, but like many people these days I’m spending my money very carefully.

I mostly wanna know how much power the steam machine will need. I’ve got to invert it from 12v DC.

And honestly since the steam deck I kinda trust valve with hardware build quality.

How hard is it to just not say stuff? Is this prat trying to calm pushed outraged right wingers? I hadn’t heard any outrage. And if there is outrage, so fuckin what. Just shut up, idiot, and let the game speak for itself.

I think it looks like a good one. I like the look of it - kind of seems like a resident evil in space and without the scary stuff. In the unlikely event that it’ll run on my steam deck, I’ll probably pick it up in a year or so.

Don’t Care Bears

Who can afford £70? Especially given the price increase consoles and PC components are seeing. Like many people, I wait a few years until it’s on sale.

The last of us part 2. I’m over the halfway point, where I think a lot of people want to give up. I know I did, but I stuck with it and I’m really glad I did, think I’ve got maybe a quarter of the game left and loving it.

I’ve never understood why people are so into avocados. I personally find them slimy and suspicious.

At least they’re discussing the problem.

I don’t think there’s any chance of Lucas Pope putting out a crap game. A great game that’s incredibly niche, I could see that though.

That being said, if you can actually ride a horse, you’ve seen a horse cock, and you know that’ll fucking kill you.

Indeed, who can forget the embarrassing demise of Mr Hands?

As a kid I kept setting the alarms off by accidentally bumping them.

I think the next naughty dog game will be on playstation. I’ll be sorry to miss it, but not enough to buy the console.

Yeah, I won’t be buying a playstation, but I’ll definitely buy the next naughty dog game if I have a device that can run it.

I’m playing the last of us part 2. Finished part 1 last week and enjoyed it so much i jumped straight into part 2. I think I’m about half way into it. I’ve somehow managed to mostly avoid spoilers - I have a vague idea what happens but I still don’t really know how it’s going to end. Damn, what a story.

Yeah, it’s attention seeking, really. It’s not hard to feel a bit sorry for them.

I’m kinda hoping valve waits for component costs to calm down before releasing it - otherwise I could see the price making it DOA.

Jet Set Willy. It was on a cassette tape, for the spectrum computer. My brother’s and I got probably hundreds of hours out of it.

I’ve not seen the films, but in the books it sounds fairly real physics based. That could be interesting in combat.

Thanks for that, I was proper confused lol

Probably God of war. I’m way behind in my gaming! Currently half way through The last of us part2.

Kinda like something that dripped out the back end of a poisoned cow?

I think I actually got an achievement for checking out 2B’s arse ten times.

I gave up in the third playthrough for this reason. I seemed to be just doing the same stuff over and over. And I don’t really like bullet hell things. But TBF I loved the style and the music, and the game gave me some truly epic moments.

Your dad got banned from the local petting zoo for blowing a sheep.

Unfounded claims are fun and easy!

I’ve never bought any and I’m doing fine.