I wonder how much Bungie's reputation for mistreating their fans contributed to Marathon's lukewarm response. Personally, I wrote them off after that thing where they made people buy the base game again to get the dlc. The ip theft was undoubtedly a significant factor, but how much was historical?

I'm a bit behind on this year's best games tbh but so far there's a strong case to be made for Doom TDA: Revelations to be my goty. I'd argue it's a lot better than the already excellent base game

It's an utter indictment of UK politics that this guy represented the progressive wing of English politics. Now he's working for the neo-gestapo

Someone called implementation defined behavior undefined behavior on the Internet, I managed to stop myself correcting them but only by channeling it into this annoying subtweet

Fuck every single person involved in the process that allowed firing grenades that blow children's hands off into legitimate protests.

It's why you never hear that the modern labour movement was invented in England. And, it's why they keep ploughing money into Paddington movies no one likes instead of making Warhammer or Judge Dredd the smash it obviously would be. These things will always need American money to get funded.

The English aristocracy will do whatever they can to smother the legitimate anti-authoritarian speech of English people. It's why they drill into them that the French go on strike all the time despite being statistically equally likely.

& in this case ofc - MMOs

In those months, it's heartbreaking when you do manage to drive it up and then back down again, which is actually quite common

The every game having 10/10 potential question is interesting too. imo most ideas can secure an 8. Only some can get a 10 for that point in time & it shifts with taste. There's often a point in the development where the 8 is secured and everything you do after that is about trying to get it higher.

My backlog has hit 4 rows 🫣

Something that's obvious in hindsight but was unthinkable 10 years ago is that when our dark age approached I'd be sprinting towards it like an oasis in a desert.

This, and big websites should stop writing for the people that *don't* read their sites and prioritise the people who do. They are the ones who will pay for stuff.

I've been thinking about what a system that verifies humanity anonymously that actually works could look like and I like the idea of async crypto signed hand written letters

Terra Nova is one of the best. The truly hideous ones that killed it happened in the 00's nu metal era although none come to mind right now, they were terrible, zooming around all over the place just to change the volume of the awful soundtrack

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