I heard on a podcast a long time ago that the Army considered it one of their most successful recruiting tools. Not because it brought in more recruits, but because fewer recruits dropped out, apparently because playing the game led to fewer surprises after joining.

Running at the speed of lobsters!

That's... what Americans do. I live about 1500 miles from my parents, and only use time as a measurement if I'm planning to drive that far, mainly in days.

The banner up top is blue because it looks like denim, right?

After leaving it in my backlog for close to a decade, I finally started playing Fallout 3. Yeah. On a technical level it's mostly fine, save for some shocking framerate dips and the way it sometimes repeats my movement inputs. Other than that, it's a pretty good game, particularly for loot whores like myself.

An indie game called OneShot from the Undertale knockoff genre has only one choice that matters, but god damn what a horrible choice, particularly since a child has to make it. And by the way, the game is called OneShot because it's designed to be played exactly once. If you want to play again, you have to mess with some files to do so.

I didn't sleep the night after I played that part in MGS5. "We live and die by your orders, Boss" while morosely humming the Peace Walker theme -- it's like Kojima was trying to make the player share Snake's PTSD.

Yes, we all do, and most of us outgrow it.

~400BC

And yet the quote is still somehow not even remotely old.

All to make their job easier, lol.

Not a teacher, but what I keep reading is that they're trying not to get pilloried by students' screaming MAGA parents.

Did you mix up "your" and "you're" recently? Could this be a nudge from Amazon? (:

It wasn't super meaningful from a narrative perspective, but no one who played Unreal when it was new is likely to forget that first step off the Vortex Riker onto Na Pali. Sure, there had been games like Myst, but this not only elevated how beautiful games can be, but put the player right in the middle of it like nothing else did. Not an easy moment to recreate. To be honest, that game plus UT2003/04 had some of the best graphics in the business, from both the technical and design standpoints.