bensdecoy.bsky.social
Some day my goofs will be worthy of a dollar a month, I just know it.
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At its best that meme is a call for better work environments and a more sustainable game industry filter through people who don’t know how games are made. Well meaning but misguided.
At its worst it’s a cargo cult hoping that if games look like they did when you were 12 they’d be good again.
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I was thinking about this earlier today (again since this meme sticks in my craw like splinter) and I realized that people DO do this for other media. Even as something as simple as “book writers shouldn’t use adjectives too liberally” becomes a meme thanks to social media proliferation.
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Basically, unless you are packing a bag down to the inch it seems like you can fit a Switch 2 case into the space where you can fit a Switch 1 case, but I can imagine places where using the Switch 2 itself would be awkward like if you’re crowded on public transit or at a tiny table or counter.
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Could be an illusion based on this particular Switch 1 case and I worried that they cut back on the Switch 2 case’s padding but they’re basically equivalent.
So I guess the Switch 2 isn’t that much less portable than the Switch 1 UNTIL you take it out of the box? Weird.
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…when I popped the Switch 2 into its case I noticed that it kind of “shrank”? Maybe it’s just me but when I put the consoles side by side the 2 is obviously larger and that size difference is somehow more than the difference between the two cases.
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I can’t believe he devolved from “here is a food from an extremely popular and algorithm friendly TV show/movie/video game.” What a trend chaser.
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I think there’s an argument for 1996 to 2001 which goes from Tomb Raider 1’s attempt at realistic characters and environments to Metal Gear Solid 2.
Maybe the difference doesn’t look as stark but 2001 gets you motion captured skeletal animation, moving facial features, hair that isn’t a solid block
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“Oh I’ve matured, I don’t like those games that came from that era when some studios had money after making successful games and got ideas above their station.”
Matured have you? Because I think at some point an adult would have moved on.
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It is embarrassing because some people are clearly embarrassed. Maybe they are embarrassed they liked a game that’s bad. Maybe they are embarrassed that video games went through this “prestige era” at all.
That’s their problem! They should work on that instead of digging the discourse grave again.
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No one has to like what they don’t like. No one has to respect art they find pretentious. I’m just sick of this “disco sucks” attitude people have.
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Oh no, did a handful of developers “try to say something”? Were their influences too obvious? A video game’s story was shallow compared to a novel?
Oh my god, burn the archives and salt the earth.
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I really shouldn’t expect better but it would have been nice to live in a world where people either stop talking about the same handful of games to make the same points over and over again forever OR they learn to look at things with the smallest shred of I don’t know, academic distance.
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They didn’t play it often but every Sound Effects game is sublime. Fantastic physical comedy/mining from Colin, Ryan does impressive foley and gets to torment Colin a bit as they build a scene together.
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I played through Elden Ring twice and it’s been the better part of a year since my last session but I’m happy with how I can work around certain bosses without taking too many hits.
That said, I’m still useless at facing down against certain bosses like the Bell Bearing Hunter.
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I can’t tell if they’ve tuned the game down a little or if the extra pressure makes me play better because I also feel competent at drawing agro and dodging boss attacks to buy other players more time to recover or stack damage.
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But NuPeggy I’ve seen before, both in person and across a lot of news clips and YouTube shorts and TikToks talking about the “Parental Choice Movement” or some other nonsense.
The equivalent would be if NuHank started shaving his head and traded in his glasses for wraparound Oakley sunglasses.
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Part of this is perception, I don’t think I was ever fully exposed to the exact kind of outward persona original Peggy was, which kind of felt a bit outdated give the Hills came off as much older the farther back in the series you go. Could also be a regional difference between Texas and up here.
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Since the Ecclestone reboot.
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I have a theory that this kitschy mixing of eras is less an attempt to make Star Trek into a single continuum for easier storytelling and more an attempt to replicate modern Doctor Who.
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He had all those pillows with wine mom jokes but replaced with “my blood”
It’s My Blood O’clock
Pot of coffee by day, bottle of my blood by night
Who, what, where, my blood
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Now companies don’t want to sell crass, or gimmickry, or excess, to anyone but the wealthy. They don’t want to sell anything. Disneyland, theme restaurants, kitschy hotels, fast food, have been filed down to be bland as possible in order to maximize profits. It’s really hard to find cheap thrills.
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…only for David to exasperatedly shout “you want to make it more crass but it just shouldn’t exist!”
He’s not wrong, but I think the boys were running into another example of how everything sucks now.
Companies used to sell crass because they were trying to SELL something and that was an audience
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Being up just high enough to feel taller than other things but not be far enough to fall and hurt yourself speaks to an evolutionary link to when we climbed trees to avoid predators.
I assume.