I hate when headlines (well, people in general) use codenames for hardware. I’m apparently supposed to know off the top of my head that Arrow Lake is the newest Intel Core Ultra series cpus released a couple of months ago.

fuckin sick

if I can get a solid 60fps with ray-traced reflections, I’ll take that over 144. Reflections and shadows do a lot for me

make more Legends, you fucks

goddamn can sukeban nail an aesthetic

I also prefer the 2012 art to the modern style, but if Mike likes to draw the way he does now then good for him. He’s clearly demonstrated his artistic prowess over the years and I’d guess wanted to make his own exaggerated style. It’s definitely instantly recognizable as his

PA refers to Penny Arcade, a gaming culture webcomic that’s run since '98 that’s linked by Corngood up there. Tycho Brahe (besides being a 16th centure Danish astronomer) is name of one of the main characters in the comic as well as the pseudonym of it’s main writer, Jerry Holkins.

you also get exp-boosting earrings that work until the max level of the previous expansion, and a unique minion (little pet to show off)

it’s not ‘early access’ in that way, it’s just that if you preorder you get access 3 or 4 days early

I really wish we could go back to smaller scale rpgs that came out more frequently. Tighter, trimmer play areas with efficient stories. They don’t need to have tons of side quests with mediocre at best writing. Just pare it down for shit’s sake

looks cool, I like the music

Quick, someone find a Quimbley Tarantino or something to hire so we can put Q. Tarantino on the script!

Oh no! Not my GPUs! That’s the real issue here, not all the death!

Really happy they properly translated Vivian’s trans-ness this time

I find myself doubtful

Intellectually I know it’s fine. I know there’s plenty of time to complete the game. I just can’t stand a ticking clock counting down, constantly. It makes me anxious and completely ruins my enjoyment of the game. I also have this problem with Stardew Valley where I constantly feel like there’s not enough time and I’m being pulled in several directions at once and I can’t focus on anything. It’s a nightmare.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe develop a beloved indie game.

Someone wants to lay people off without the headline “Grand Theft Auto Dev Lays Off 200 Employees”

I was on Team Yuffie until

What was that? Couldn’t hear you over the layoffs

You can probably buy it from a key reseller. That’s what I did when I wanted to replay Prey 2006, it was like $3 iirc. Really, though, if you can’t buy it from the rights holders just pirate it.

Edit: Actually I’ll go as far as saying if the actual creators of the game won’t make any money from your purchase, just some company that bought the rights, pirate it then too, fuck em

I intended that to be T and under games with premeditated murder by the player in them, but I realize looking back that I didn’t say that so you are correct. They are, however, both M rated. Although, Oblivion was famously T rated before being rerated to M because of some PC mods with nudity in them. Even the console version was changed to M, which I remember thinking at the time was BS. So I’m going to call that a T rated game with murder in it.

FF is typically self defense and/or war, but there are probably some murders in there somewhere I guess

Can you give an example of another game with unambiguous premeditated murder on the part of the main character, that isn’t either in self-defense or as part of a war? I’m trying to think of any but I’m coming up short.

What I meant was presumably it has murder and blood sacrifice, it would be a pretty poor cult game without those. And if that’s true, that sounds like an M rating to me.

I’m an atheist, I don’t have a dog in the “Satan v. God of Abraham” fight.

I can see both sides of this. On the one hand, it’s a T rated game. It would be weird for a T rated game to have a big focus on sex.

On the other hand, the update is called Sins of the Flesh and the art for it depicts the characters dancing naked around a fire, with leaves covering their genitals.

On my mutant third hand, it’s weird for a satanic-adjacent cult game to be rated T in the first place. I guess they’re really coasting on their cute aesthetic? I haven’t played this game.

Pros: I’d only have to solve puzzles, then defeat an AI god at puzzles in order to be born into the real world and become effectively immortal so long as I keep up maintenance on my robo-bod. It’s easier than it sounds.

Cons: Most human media is lost to time. I would be alone except for the fellow robots I wake up, and a lot of them are apparently annoying. The work of restoring civilization rests entirely on my shoulders. Luckily, I’m immortal.

I think Keanu Reeves is great in Cyberpunk 2077

I often see people shit on Keanu Reeves for wooden acting in Cyberpunk, but I honestly thought he was great as Johnny. Knocked it out of the park imo

Yes. You can play for free with a free trial that includes the base game and the first expansion, Heavensward, which I hear is critically acclaimed. The second expansion, Stormblood, will be added to the free trial in October when the 6.5 update comes out. This is hundreds of hours of gameplay and story for free. If you want to keep playing after exhausting the free trial content, you’ll need to pay a monthly fee of $12.99 and buy the base game + latest expansion. The latest expansion includes all previous expansions. At this time the latest expansion is Endwalker. If you somehow don’t complete the free trial between now and then, or want to wait for the next expansion so you get the current one for free, the next expansion is Dawntrail in summer 2024 and it will include Endwalker for free as well as all the previous ones.

Silent Hill 2 is number 1

xbox series x/s is the worst though

So are they going to request comments from citizens, come to the conclusion that everyone loves data caps, and then later have it be revealed that most of the responses were fake?