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This month's Journal Updated was extra good cause we talked about one of the best games of all time, Demon's Souls. Meanwhile in Diary Updated we talk job woes and spring cleaning! Listen to our fucking podcast!!!
dear god
well there’s like one million games between the two so i’ll let everyone know if i get there lol
basically a perfectly replayable game
resident evil 2 is just truly one of the best flowing action adventure games ever made. this and mgs1 in the same year is crazy
the ORIGINAL ‘the real plot is happening offscreen in chris’ secret notes.’ a proud resident evil tradition since 1998
i assume everyone knows that i would imagine the sword art online part is what had people reading the post going has jackson had a stroke
can’t help but notice your man here only uses one sword. like a FUCKING LOSER
SWORD ART ONLINE HIRED THAT MAN!!!!!!
anyway ultimately my big reaction was i felt bad if i seem unapproachable. if anyone else is making a youtube video and wants to include me but also knows it would be a bit rude so has to crop out my name from the posts then you can always just dm me and talk through the specifics instead
anyway imo my half life takes are dumb because they were just me posting while playing the game on my personal account, i don’t consider them super robust criticism. and i did follow it up by playing wolfenstein on the mouse which i absolutely adored, despite the extra pain it caused me
it’s a video i mostly agree with about remasters and the ideology that drives them being bad but then has a whole segment about how all my half life takes are dumb as i played half life with a controller. which i did because i am disabled and wear a wrist brace lol. so i felt a little like awwww man
have you ever been watching a youtube video while very tired and depressed as you’re winding down to go to bed trying to relax and then that video reveals it is a subtweet of you, personally. it is an extremely surreal feeling lmao
here's one of the remaining roundup posts from the time just to show just how much was popping off around BI. can't imagine how many of these links are all dead now. felt like a big deal at the time, now completely invisible to culture and the game's narrative thiscageisworms.com/2013/04/04/i...
bioshock infinite was like the defining moment for all the reviews are wrong and the real takes come out two weeks later age of games crit, the anti-bi wave was a watershed or breakthrough moment for a lot of voices in 2010s games crit
Ethan Winters is the guy who says "this is the worst part" before he pulls out the pizza from the oven bare handed
i was there that shit was NOT universal
without fail it has been the megagames from massive corporations under no threat from tiny outlets like our independent podcast listened to exclusively by gay communists on their commute that have got us harassment or mistreatment due to the tiniest differences in interpretation lol
anyway alll i will add is as someone whose podcast occasionally covers very small games often with pretty pointed criticisms: 100% of the time, the response from devs has been nothing but positive, teams glad people are seriously engaging with their work
little bit of digging and it turned out it was kicked off by a small games blog publishing an article like THE SEVEN NEXT FEST DEMOS I WIPE MY ASS WITH well yeah ok there you go. now i can see why people are arguing lol
this post brought to you by seeing multiple lengthy threads all saying thoughtful takes about how independence does not mean above critique and that all criticism and creation exist in constant symbiosis, all true things that left me very confused what the supposedly heated disagreements were
if any discourse gets big enough on social media to go through multiple days of quotes and threads discussing high minded concepts of culture, critique etc you should be able to press a big button that brings up a window: "this is the original article that is actually being argued about"
it is just so fucking gamer brained to take a website whose nominal purpose is art preservation and use it in this weaponised, consumer-mindset way that's just how can we kick those who are already down into granting me, the steam user, more free games. fuck you
waited a while to post this because i didnt want to draw any attention to it while it was happening but it just made me furious. no gamer deserves a single thing actually
despite its usefulness i have been somewhat radicalised against delisted games dot com lately as a friends game got featured and suddenly, while in the process of leaving an industry that never supported or cared about them, had to deal with a bunch of bottom feeders demanding a goodbye sale
yeah thats pretty much where we are
this mf just took the minus 2 despite clearly being good enough to go for the higher offer just cause he wanted to be in the final and the look on the other two's faces was exactly this
BRADLEY WALSH: what will you do with the money if you win today?
EVERY CONTESTANT UNDER 40: pay off my student loans. maybe we can stop renting before we have kids
EVERY CONTESTANT OVER 55: probably put it towards another of my regular luxury cruise trips
