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My main takeaway from this article is that I’m not sure if “people ops” is Queen’s English for “Human Resources” or if that’s just what ubisoft calls it because they think it sounds more personal.

I bought Gynoug and Star Wars but haven’t played either yet.

I was in food service for six years. I woke up at 3:50 AM to filter hot oil, scrub hot fryers and grill, clean walls, hoods, floors, run laundry, take out garbage, shovel snow, pick weeds, maintain the stock areas, order all the inventory, handle the stock deliveries, and run the kitchen through the middle of the day. I never had two days off in a row unless I requested it a month ahead. I had to buy my own health insurance, and they bounced me because I left a meeting where people weren’t wearing masks in the dead of winter, before vaccines were available.

Now I work in a clean, safe warehouse for a surprisingly benevolent retail giant. My regular schedule is three days a week, 5:30A-5:30P, with two paid breaks per shift and optional overtime during the week. The work is easy and the leadership is encouraging. The production goals are totally reasonable, and pretty much everyone who works there is happy with it. I already have a switch of course but if I wanted one I could buy it after less than one day of work, with my employee discount. My sign on bonus was $2k and referred a friend, which will met both of us $3k this March.

Never ever will I return to food service.

I usually only watch speed runs that are more in line with the full game, but the community effort to discover and execute all these exploits is impressive.

Sounds like mini-mass effect 3, looks like mini-mass effect 1.

@DumbElder Sorry when I said people I should have said the public. We also didn’t have this interview back then. The employees in charge of this sort of thing are a whole other matter.

In reality it could have been pink and glittery and shaped like a giant dong and it wouldn’t have mattered to me because the games ruled and the only people who would have seen it in my room would have had it in theirs too. Hoho

So they preferred original Undertaker to Summerslam ‘94 comeback Undertaker. I think Nintundertaker both made the purple work.

I don’t recall people at the time thinking Cube was “girly” or “feminine.” The only knock people gave it was that it seemed kiddy, which is a terrible thing for a video game console to be, apparently.

@idork99 Dkoldies.com handles some repairs. I’ve bought and sold from them before and they’re reliable and professional. They’re based in Pennsylvania.

I opened this article and couldn’t think of any games that came out this year, it’s been so long.

Dread is great but I guess it’s Village, if only for the House Beneviento sequence. Things are hitting me a lot harder these days and Village had this nauseating Silent Hill layer of sorrow all over it that really made it an experience to push through.

Mine just arrived. I love everything about it. The sound and picture are great, surprisingly, and the construction feels very solid. The metal faceplate is a high quality touch. It’s a gorgeous package. These are my favorite Zelda games and I look forward to having a dedicated pocket sized device for them.

This final list is underwhelming. Out of these finalists, probably Tetris or Street Fighter 2. MGS and SMB3 runners up.

Despite the presence of GTA guy and Tekken guy, I’m not going to think about this any further or apply any value to the final choice.

Just waiting to see if Dungeon Encounters and Voice of Cards get sales later this month and buying both either way.

@DevinRex Most work boots I’ve worn have around 1.25”-1.5” heel, so she’s getting closer to something reasonable. However, the boots I wear now are a thick flat sole made by DeWalt and I’m in love with these things. My non-work boots are Blundstones with an inch and a halfish heel.

I think her mid-low ponytail is also a more utilitarian style, women wear their ponytails higher more often than not. I’m a long haired guy and I have to tie my hair back for work, and low comes naturally.

Edit: and I’m in here thirty seconds after someone else talking work boots . Haha

He’s going to pull a McGregor and say he’d like to apologize…FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

@ivory_soul Yeah, which is why it’s odd to me that the games seem so much more expansive than the books. Usually the book is bigger than the adaptation. It occurs to me now, though, that there still haven’t been many adaptations of this kind (book to game instead of book to tv/movie), and games can be enormous these days.

The books definitely have a stronger sense of humor than the game, but I’ve only played the third.

I gave up on the show after Yennefer started sword fighting. I’m pretty forgiving of adaptations and I understand the budget isn’t huge but I sat there with my hands atop my head shouting, “What are you doing?!”

The game is great, the books are so-so, the show is really hit or miss for me. I think Henry Cavill is an excellent prickly misanthrope, the look he gives the bartender when he gets a skunky beer is breathtaking.

I got to the Baptism of Fire and the back of the book says “Geralt is injured and Ciri is missing” and yeah, that’s the Witcher. I’ve only played the third game but CDPR has done wonders with expanding on the lore and background, particularly when it comes to the monsters, conjunction of the spheres, chaos, and the wild hunt and how it all ties together with the political story. Sword of Destiny was my favorite so far and I’m not sure I see that changing.

Sometimes I lose my lady when she sits in the big armchair at her work desk. All I see is chair. Those are sad times.

Drop this schmuck into the marianas trench.

I played 3 to the end and some of VC. I’ll get it at $30-40. Switch if it works, PS4 if it doesn’t. Physical preferred.

After reading this I checked my system data. I have a bunch of stuff archived (including MK11 ultimate, which is a whopper at30+ gb) but the largest active game I have is Xcom 2 collection at 17.9gb on the sd card.

This is noteworthy because my copy of xcom 2 is physical. Oof

Oathkeeper, man. Oathkeeper.

I was hoping for a review when I saw this pop on the shop this morning. Single step turn based dungeon crawling confined to a tactical grid sounds good to me.

Every Resident Evil game can be beaten in just a few hours. Final Fantasy 7 original can be finished in 20. When I was a kid it took me years to finish the original Zelda the first time. I can beat it in around an hour now, with my best time a little under, and I love every minute and play it repeatedly. Seriously, when I get manic and need Zelda I will play that game seven or eight times back to back, and I’ve done three hearts, wood sword, and no sword challenges. The same goes for Resident Evil 1/2/3 (and remakes and village) and Symphony of the Night. These are classic games sold at $50 that still hold up and can be cleared quickly or deliberately.

Mainline Metroid has never been a 50-100 hour series and most games of this type are not. The only metroidvania type titles I’ve spent 50 hours on in a single playthrough are Bloodstained (quests and collecting) and Hollow Knight (wandering around wondering what the hell to do). I loved Bloodstained and even with all the added updates haven’t gone back. Hollow Knight was a pleasure but I wouldn’t want to start from the beginning again, it’s a slog and even at the end you don’t get the feeling of “I am at full power.” I’ve already played Dread three times though and will continue going back, just like I have with the others in the series, and my most loved games. Dread actually took me longer to beat on first playthrough (12ish) than any Resident Evil game, which I consider to be loose Metroid types.

Metroid games are tense, dark, straight forward action adventures each with a clear primary goal to resolve in what I think of as a somewhat loosely based real time setting.

RPG elements work in these games, side quests and side characters work in these games, but Metroid is Metroid. Samus will blast around at Mach 5, investigate, find everything, kill it all, and be home in time for baseball.

I don’t play Smash but I’ve watched the Sora trailer over and over because it is glorious. That music brought me right back, for better or worse, and will result in a KH binge in the near future.

I work in a retail warehouse where about 80 PS5s have just been sitting for months, waiting for their moment. With that said, we also received about 800 switch Oleds the first week of October.

I haven’t played Shield since I finished the base dex, but there’s a GameStop on the way home from work so maybe I’ll stop in.

I’ve only played the original Smash and Ultimate. I kind of figured I’d end up quitting once I unlocked every character, and that’s exactly what happened. Traded it in to GameStop at some point. I don’t really play anything online anymore so ehh. Still, the Sora trailer was a damn triumph.

Whatever game it is, if it’s Tuesday after work it’s docked, muted, with Mystery Science Theater on my laptop and a bottle of wine on the end table.

I don’t play online, I have most of this stuff, and throwing in animal crossing dlc rental is the kernel of corn atop this crap sundae of a package. No, no chance.

I already have Mario 3D all stars, the Genesis classics collection, a 3ds with ocarina and majora, and a Wii U with whatever on it. Furthermore, I do not have animal crossing. If it were a $10 upgrade for 64 and Genesis maybe, but asking me to pay for ACNH crap is a laugh riot.

I also started the game trying to use the dpad for movement and groaned when I couldn’t. Within an hour I was all aboard the analogue stick and never looking back.

I’m not sure if the emmi were really necessary for the game. That’s probably the worst thing I can say about them, I don’t know what they added. Before I could kill them I sprinted through their zones, once I could kill them I, ya know, killed them. I wasn’t into the pulsing light and film grain in their areas.

Boss fights could go on a bit but were fun overall. I never had much trouble with them, but I’m not sure I could handle the bullet sponginess on hard mode.

Playing as Samus fully powered up, with such smooth action is joyous. I’ll replay it a few times this month before going to something else.

My main complaint is the BONKBONKBONK whenever I was in ball mode.

After I finish replaying Dread, after I decide to ditch all the side quests and finish Skyrim, then maybe. I’ve had my eye on this one for a bit.

I’ll see it of course but what I’m REALLY looking forward to is Charlie as Luigi.

@BloodNinja it’s funny because I saw this game on the eshop’s coming soon list a while back and disregarded it because the listing had no screenshots or video.

@Rats the original Zelda definitely is, which is why I think metroidvanias should just be called action-adventures.

Also, Resident Evil.

@Chocobo_Shepherd My first thoughts also went to the the hero, the champion, the mvp, the legend killer, the best Manning.

I just picked it up and Target also had the amiibo set sitting on the shelf so I got one of them too.

Dread, physical, the minute Target opens Friday.

@JasmineDragon That is extra funny because where I live now there is a moving company called “Two Guys and a Truck”

I worked for a restaurant ordering website years ago, before apps existed and online ordering was ubiquitous. Every now and then a client restaurant would call in and tell me they’d changed their name to something like “AAA Dino’s Pizza” or “A+ China Bowl” in an attempt to be nearer the top of the alphabetical listings.

I see AAA and I expect to get into an argument with a restaurant owner about needing a menu faxed over with the actual restaurant name printed on it. Therefore, I will not be buying AAA Clock.

This has been a morning musing from the no avatar wall of text guy.

The Undertaker.

I’m guessing Goku based on absolutely nothing but my fantasy pick would be Bret “Hitman” Hart. I don’t even play smash though so wooooooo

I work all Saturday-Monday, Tuesday-Thursday will be more Skyrim and Castlevania. Friday, it’s all about tall space lady.

Wait a minute, frothing at the nose?

I loved Shadowrun for Genesis and heard these ones were really good, so I’m looking forward to these.

I finally started Skyrim last week so I’m continuing with as much of that as I can until Dread.

Good god, the gallery images of the box and manual art are direct scans with beautiful beautiful damage. I love it

I can’t believe it’s only $20. I cannot believe it.

“Our customers trust us.”

There’s a sucker born every minute.

It’s easy to brush by THQ Nordic stuff but Battlechasers: Nightwar was a really nice surprise.