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Have you ever seen coal in real life?
I just realised that I have never seen or used it, neither crude oil of course, but there are more variants of it than this natural mineral that powers a lot of the world....
TIL that a billionaire bought Lonely Planet and put an inexperienced 24 year old wedding photographer in charge (www.nbcnews.com)
Pedro Pascal and Norman Reedus now have 2 IPs where they travel with a kid in tow
Cant really get into Mihoyo games on my commute
Been playing mostly Marvel Snap and Match 3....
Old articles are clogging up search engines
The internet used to be where you found the latest information. But it’s old enough that you could easily find info on 10-20 year old articles that are out of date and irrelevant
This console generation seems skippable
I’ve never skipped a console gen starting from Super NES, PS1 through 4 plus the Switch Oled 5 years after launch of the OG Switch...
Heres an idea, Fromsoft should make the Soul Reaver sequel
They had GRRM write Elden Ring. They can get Amy Henning to write SR before she retires...
If Skull and Bones came out and was a 10/10 what would your user review look like?
I haven’t seen any trailers and things have changed in a decade and Ubisoft haven’t made a universally acclaimed game in a long time....
What random good thing happened to you this year?
Whats with the sudden indie output from South Korea?
Usually known for their internal online and mobile games. In 2023 we get Dave the Diver and Lies of P which are non mobile single player games....
'Great' games I didn't play this year due to requirements
Currently running a Ryzen 2600 and AMD 6700XT, older cpu with mid tier gpu. This is my round up of 2023 gaming...
Coffee is a mana potion and Cough Syrup is a health potion
Applicants probably spend more time skimming job openings than Managers spend skimming through CVs
Much easier to reject bad CVs. On the other hand every job post is the same and you have to check Glassdoor and Crunchbase before applying to a potential bad company
Gangsters have gone out of style because its safer and easier to be a white collar criminal
Playing through the latest Yazuka game about the death of the Yakuza, similar to the last of the outlaws in RDR2....
Why does the value of things in dollars not make sense?
This is difficult to explain. I can’t figure out a rule of thumb for spending, the prices of things fluctuate so quickly it’s confusing. Here are some examples...
Indie game cross over My Friendly Neighbourhood and Not for Broadcast
Just finished MFN, it had the same vibe, underlying horror as NFB, both focused on behind the scenes in television. Would be great if these 2 companies did references to each other the same way Jak and Daxter and Ratchet and Clank did in the early days
Just an observation on game engines
RE Engine: Monster Hunter, REMakes, DMC. All run beautifully...
Got a Soulslike itch, any patient games?
FF Origin? Lies of P is still full price, Lords of Fallen has some bad reviews, Remnant 2 was good but badly optimised so I can’t run it....
Now that the Middle East conflict is back. Was wondering why they call them settlements instead of towns?
Aren’t they just buildings and infra?
Have you ever felt a imaginary switch click that changed the trajectory of your life?
It could be over a few months, like a new job where one day you feel like actually going to work thinking, hey I actually like these people and don’t mind working here....
AIs version of beautiful people will be based on plastic surgery versions of people who were once based on those born with good looks
If you nicknamed a Giraffe "Giff" how would you pronounce it?
Does black coffee taste slightly salty?
Recently switched to black coffee for a few weeks. I’ve had sour, bitter notes from the office coffee machine and a chain cafe....
Do kids talk like cartoons or do cartoons try to talk like kids?
There are certain action phrases in cartoons that kids imitate. There’s also a kind of children’s books writer tone to many programs, simplified language, certain ways of explaining things slowly or expressing emotions