@dkaszor
A former journalist and current writer and editor. Used to trick a national newspaper into letting me run a videogames vertical, back when videogames verticals were a thing. Avatar doodled by Chip Zdarsky in 2015.
That 1996 Resident Evil number is just 10-ish days at the end of March yeah? That's pretty impressive for a new-IP game on a system without a super-huge huge install base in an era when people didn't really know exact release dates for things.
I sort of agree with you. I think it's notable that most people cite whatever they were listening to when they were 17 as "the best era of music" and we here are citing an era from when we were near our 30s.
(With the caveat, of course, we're talking about a very specific lane of indie music here)
One thing that I think maybe is not conveyed to the Rest Of Canada™ about the Alberta separatist movement is how much it ~deeply~ offends a large contingent of ~very conservative people~ in Alberta, especially the "business conservatives." It's a legitimate schism.
And it's telling that they had the confidence to try that after really fumbling the same thing in RE6. (Admittedly in RE6 the "Leon" style was actually the more traditional one)
The bit in the FFXIV doc where Yoshi-P is like "the reason this game turned around is we got really granular optimizing agile development" and "not work more, nessisarily, but making sure each task was meaningful" was eye opening to me. Like, shouldn't that stuff be the norm? (The answer is no)
I love how every few Windows releases Microsoft is like "okay boys, time to do a bad one!" Like clockwork.
I love how every few Windows releases Microsoft is like "okay boys, time to do a bad one!" Like clockwork.
I think about this a lot when looking at, like, 75% of the things that get posted on Bluesky.
Also, aging gracefully does NOT apply to the women in the series. Jill canonically stopped aging in 2005 for reasons. So she will forever look like she's about 30.
I think he's cannonically 49 or 50 in RE9, so he's still looking pretty good all things considered
(It's also interesting how they HAVEN'T done this with Chris who is nearing 60 in the timeline and basically doesn't look any older than he did in RE5 20 years ago)
Like that doesn't even get a below the fold mention in there
I find it sort of weird that Variety is talking about this giant debt-load deal like it's fait accompli, and not something that at bare minimum has like six to eight months of regulatory scuttwork before it goes through and is facing a challenge from the California state government.
It's still wild to me to think how close Toronto was to building the Spadina Expressway. What a different city that would be.
The last time a new Shield hardware revision came out was 2019! I guess the current hardware does everything that consumer niche needs it to do (ie decode 4K video with HDR+ or DolbyVision)
A hat that says "People who get diarrhea from Taco Bell are weak and their bloodline is weak and history will forget them"
Remember
The Toronto core is a small city of about 750K that's almost hermetically sealed from the larger city of about 6 million surrounding it.
Also, how, when watched all in a row, the "mythology" episodes basically stop making sense after about s3. Not the actual lore itself, which is fairly consistent, but how the characters react to it. The characters act like the AUDIENCE: ie that they've missed some of it and can't remember half of it
I'll go further on this: the fact that it's "only 33% watchable"
is ~the best thing about it~ and the necessity for modern shows to be all bangers/no filler and to ~make cogent sense and not contradict itself~ are antithetical for what made the good parts of The X-Files good, especially later on
Man, every time you post a picture of your moneypit house and all the troubles with it, I look at it and go "damn, worth it though"
One thing that BlueSky seems to have imported directly from the old Twitter is people making up a guy to be mad at and then being REALLY mad at that made up guy
This is a movie that's much better than its reputation as a flop. It's also wild how ~very clearly~ the entire aesthetic of Uncharted was basically lifted whole cloth from this movie.
Thank you for the clarity! Sorry for messing up the details! Just wanted to clear up that the conception "it was Amano art, of course it was cool" undersold how much legwork went into getting a bespoke and cool piece for that cover
IIRC when they were talking about this on a podcast (apologies if I get small details wrong it was a podcast from 20 years ago), they expected Amano do do a little sketch and were shocked to get a full piece of very finished cover art and they pivoted to make a bigger deal out of it.
IIRC that was art that they actually got Amano to do exclusively for the cover of EGM, and it happened specifically because one of the staff memebers (James Mielke) had fostered a personal and professional relationship with him. So they do sort of get props of it, I think. Not just random Amano art
Right? How did the most obvious one for a Switch 2 version take this long?
The poster for Kind Hearts & Coronets showing Alec Guinness in eight different roles.
It sounds like HOW TO MAKE A KILLING is getting some pretty mid reviews, and I have to say ... just watch KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (based on same source material). Screened it with some pals who are 100% not into old movies/B&W, and it still kills. Feels surprisingly modern (except for that 1 bit)
This is fundamentally the transfer of compute-power as something a person can own, to something a person rents. Which is, you know, not good.
I was very much like "it's 2 degrees out right now. who is this shirtless fruit tree man?" this clarifies things
One of my biggest "I don't really understand the modern world" things is how people accept their phones as their primary computer device. They're so bad at so many things!
I remember you started posting about this campaign at the exact same time I started running the same base material. Was finished in about 15-20 sessions ~7 months. Haha, different vibe!