I have learned this over the last week. I got it on sale just after Christmas and basically spent the whole week playing it.

I think I’ve done like 1 of the main quests and have just been fucking around with side quests. But it’s been so fun.

Too late, I’m fully stuck in on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and I do not have room for anything else in the “big, open world RPG with swords and armor and shit” genre.

They gutted USAID which in turn caused thousands to starve in other countries. So that’s fun.

We always heard that this would be China’s century, and for the most part I assumed “maayybe. We’ll see. It’d take a while for the US to decline.”

Little did I know the US would very quickly shoot both its feet off on its own.

I thought that if China were to become the dominant country it’d be through years and years of steady growth while the US was doing the same. They’d just end up overtaking in the long run — not that the US would actively sabotage itself via bigotry and stupidity and greed.

Complete self own. And everyone in charge is a giant coward. We could start righting the ship today, but all the elected gop (and some dem) officials are greedy cowards.

I literally finished E33 a couple of hours ago, and while I do think it’s a quality game, I just couldn’t really connect with it on any emotional level. I do like the combat system. It’s fun. But the story just didn’t really grab me. I have friends saying they cried at certain scenes, and I’m just like, “Really?”

Meanwhile I got some fat tears flowing during Death Stranding 2. But everyone is different.

Plus, while E33 has really good art direction, on the PS5 every environment seemed to have this haze going on. And there were lots of weird graphical flashes of artifacts or lighting. The game looks good and also doesn’t in a way. It’s hard to describe.

Seems like a perfect video for Peertube.

What I’m saying is that last year without all the illegal, bullshit, ICE shit, without all the money that was wasted this year building up that garbage - more people were deported last year. The system that already existed last year did more in this area than this year. And without grabbing up US citizens and deporting them illegally, and without terrorizing cities for no reason.

Unless I missed it, this article doesn’t mention that last year — so without all this ICE bullshit and wasted money — the Biden admin deported more people than the Trump admin this year.

The Brenden Carr is a Dumny segment on the next Vergecast is going to be wild.

Sad my GOTY Death Stranding 2 didn’t win anything. But oh well. I hadn’t played Clair yet so I started it today. It’s good so far. Don’t know if it’ll top my Norman Reedus with a Fetus* yet though.

I actually think it’s time to retire flute guy. I think flute guy has jumped the shark, bringing in pvc pipe whatever instruments that you can’t even hear. You had your time in the sun flute guy.

Overall, I thought the show was OK. They need better pacing on when they are actually giving out awards. It seemed like there was a stretch of an hour where no awards were announced.

And I agree with the whole of the internet that the last trailer was a fat lot of nothing. Sorry to that team for working on a “dead” genre for years. I only say “dead” because by this point everyone has picked their game they like in that genre, and trying to add a new one right now is a terrible idea.

*toddler

Give me some WOODKID performing songs from Death Stranding 2.

I need a good cry.

Honestly, if I was really into AC still I’d be ok paying for the work of some devs of a five year old game if it made some good quality of life upgrades.

Adding Fortnite?

I bet Paul Dano would have done a better job with all this.

JJ Abrams?

The Star Wars JJ Abrams?

Hell yeah.

I actually just finished Better Call Saul for free* from my library. Got to keep the last season for three weeks even so it was easy to get through.

Only downside is that libraries will generally not have 4K Bluerays or whatever, but it’s not the end of the world.

*obviously already paid for via my taxes

I feel like I got my car at the perfect time:

It has Android Auto and CarPlay, and it’s a manual so there’s no way for it to turn on or off remotely.

Now I just have to make sure it survives until I die.

I totally forgot about this app because, well, it seemed pretty forgettable.

I’m also not in the target demo since I currently have my wallpaper set to whatever my phone wants to rotate in and out every hour from my Photos app.

Recent related video from a channel that helped radicalize me: Not Just Bikes

Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

It’s an older game, but Downwell is fun. Just a little action/arcade game where you fall down a well and try to get combos by not touching the ground by bouncing off of enemies.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devolver.downwell_rerelease

I feel like this is pretty reductive, really, to blanket all AAA games as one thing that are all bad. Just like all indie games aren’t great. In fact, the vast majority are kinda trash, really.

For every Call of Duty, you can find amazing games like Death Stranding 2 that have insane budgets but swing for the fences (and succeed in my opinion). And on the flip side for every Silksong you have three million, anime-girl-on-the-cover trash indie games.

There’s no “one is better than the other” when comparing the totality of AAA vs indie.