You bet! Knowing that you want someone to tell you what you want to hear is a perfect example of self-actualization. You’ve combined your own desire for group interaction with the confidence of an individualist — and that’s the game right there. Personal, but not pretentious; informed, but wanting input. And we’re only going up from here.
Unreal 2, which is a very boring singleplayer game. But then, a year after its launch, they released a multiplayer addon for it, and it’s still the best multiplayer FPS I’ve ever played. Most people remember it as “that disappointing, singleplayer-only sequel to Unreal.”
Also, VR Troopers, a fighting game for the Sega Genesis. OK, in hindsight, this game is actually terrible. But we played it all the time in elementary school. I mean, it had the VR Troopers in it! From TV!
Good game, but didn’t come out on the neo geo.
This is so well-written. I overhear people at work talk about using AI for a meal plan, or a workout plan, and I always think, “Someone in your life would love to share their passion for cooking or exercise with you.” Screw it, I need to start bringing it up with those people.
Might have been!
I had a friend in elementary school that was a little slow sometimes. One day we were walking home from school, and out of nowhere, he asks, “Why don’t they just make the Playstation 9?”
It took me a minute to figure out what he even meant by that. The Playstation 2 had just came out. Did he think that companies already have the schematics for all of their products decades into the future, but they’re just rolling them out one at a time anyway? Does he think that they already know what the PS 3 through 8 are going to be, and they can just…decide to skip those?
It was only about a year ago, right here in a fedi thread, that someone shared this PS2 commercial and I had a giant AH-HAH! moment that was decades in the making.
Oh, interesting. I’d go with Memory Alpha too, then. But yeah, definitely a pivot point in the series, and the first one that really took the post-war setting seriously.
Great list. Vectorman was one of my favorites as a kid. Challenging and fun, with great visuals and an amazing soundtrack.
I didn’t have the Streets of Rage games back then, but I played them a few years ago with my roommate after we beat Streets of Rage 4. The old ones absolutely still hold up.
I think you might have missed the sarcasm in that post, probably because it was incredibly subtle and nuanced, much like the performances of Tom Cruise, Nicholas Cage, and Adam Sandler.
I think you mean episode 18, that one is the second-to-last of the season.
And that is exactly the episode I was thinking of, too. I didn’t know which episode number it was, I just remember when I was watching DS9, there was an episode with the filing clerk, and I thought, “Oh, this show is actually going to be great if it stays like this.” I just looked it up on IMDB, and it’s S1 E18.
Jelly on top, absolutely. In all sandwiches, ingredients must go from least dense at the top to most dense at the bottom. This is part of the sandwich bitelaws.
IMO the existence of soup in a bread bowl shows that tacos and soup are even closer to each other, evolutionarily, than most scientists think.
CMV: pasta is an unleavened bread
Yes. A few weeks ago, some coworkers and I mapped out the entire sandwich taxonomy. You attain sandwich nirvana once you derive these definitions:
Now it all makes sense. Be at peace.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Thank you for reminding me of that one. It’s one of those movies that I mentally put on my “to watch” list when it came out, and I just realized that somehow I never got around to it.
edit: Oh dang, I never watched Her either. That is like, the most relevant movie of all time right now, lol. Need to get on that.
Chess. Fuckin’ a, no new characters for like a thousand years now. One map. Small children can beat me. Shit’s trash.
Great review! I’ve been curious about the Insurgency games for a while, but it always seemed like a difficult game to get into for a casual player like me. But it sounds like it’s enjoyable for new players if they have the right group.
I did play the Insurgency mod for Half Life 2 back when that was a thing, and I remember thinking it was a lot more hardcore than Counter Strike. I’m glad they had success with the full game releases.
Hah, I thought I got it and I still didn’t quite get it. I was thinking of “get down” as in lowering your body. Like, your body is lowered from the act of ducking. Get down from a duck(ing position).
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTUhnIY3oRM
Otis Redding - Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C-VscEQugk
Bill Withers - Ain’t No Sunshine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuanwn3v-2I