You want someone to test your games for ways to break it? I know just the guy!

“Hey there, it’s Josh. Today we’re checking out The Milgram Experiment. Thank you devs for the complimentary game code. This is a horror/moral choice simulator. And we all know how trustworthy MY morals and choices are! But enough about that, it’s time for NEW GAME!!!”

20 minutes later

“Well, everything’s on fire. Everyone’s dead. And the frame rate is a staggering 3 frames per year! So that seems like a great place to call it a day. I hope you had fun, I know I did, and I’d like to thank the devs for this copy of their broken game. I’ll see ya next time!”

…oops. Yes I did.

I remember when GTA 5 came out, everybody was excited. San Andreas had been HUGE. Both in map size, and in game sales.

I bought it day 1. Then the PS4 came out, and GTA5 for PS4. By this point we all knew what GTA5 was.

My friend wanted so badly for me to buy a PS4, just to buy GTA 5 again, just so he’d have someone to play with.

Then PS5 came out. Same story.

I actually bought a PS4 at some point. Regret it. Barely ever played it.

Then I bought a PS5. Regret it. Barely ever play it.

And now that I know how microtransaction laiden GTA is, I’ll be skipping GTA6 entirely.

Now I see them firing a bunch of people. A few days later I see GTA6 is delayed until this time next year.

Why would anyone be excited for a series that now peaked 21 years ago, and has only had 1 other release in that time?

Ooooooh, what community was it?

Oh god…I had no idea THATS who was buying them!

Welp. On this day, we lost EA as we once knew it. And nothing of value was lost.

Ummmmm, nobody gives a shit if EA keeps creative freedom. Nobody likes EA. EA aquires creative studios, takes their IPs, steps on the throats of creative giants who made name value for something, and then laughs as they add borderline mandatory paid DLC, and laughs as they destroy properties.

If this new owner does literally nothing besides buy smaller studios, and leave them alone to do what they want, it’s an improvement.

Most people buy a new cell phone long before the charger stops working.

I’m weird. I’ve had my cell phone since 2020. But MOST people buy one every 2-3 years. Just because the newest latest and greatest just came out.

My 5 year old phone still has no issue charging. And when the battery starts dying, MY battery is user replaceable.

Colbert said he STOPPED doing The Colbert Report because he’d say “The Republicans should (insert absurd thing that makes no sense)!”

And the next day, twitter was full of republicans not getting the joke, and NOW insisting they do the absurd thing. Thinking it was a good idea.

Colbert said he had to stop because he was just giving them ideas. Very stupid ideas that we’d all have to deal with.

Ya know…I don’t remember any super mario bros games where Mario is black.

I remember in 1993 my dad tried saying that video games make kids violent.

For anyone too young to pick up on the obvious situation here, 1993 was the year the media started looking at games like Mortal Kombat, and saying video games are violence simulators. In those days, news was different. Today there’s heavy bias in reporting. Watching the same story from 2 different reporting sources will often paint a vastly different picture. In those days however it wasn’t nearly the issue it is today. Fox News didn’t exist yet I don’t think. And even when it first started, it wasn’t what it would later become.

The news was just the news. And the news was saying video games make kids violent. My dad was doing the modern day equivilant of parroting fox news talking heads points. No opinion of his own. Just parroting the news.

So when he said that video games make kids violent, I said “Dad, I have 3 games. Sonic 2, Madden 93, and Jurassic Park. By your logic, I should be a star athlete who can play in the NFL, who runs so fast that I become a blur , and is also a velociraptor. Teenagers in the early 80s would be great at tennis, crossing the road quickly, and know how to shoot down UFOs.”

He had no rebuttal, because nobody on the news made those arguements.

Hey Arin, how does Sandstorm go?

reads post

Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Well. Those certainly are some words.

To some extent, this has always been true.

It’s just that right now it’s worse than ever

…you call for a welfare check on them? I mean, clearly there’s some mental issues going on with your neighbor.

But what are you going to do? Go over there yourself??? Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Easy buddy. This is America. They probably have a gun, and are already proven to be mentally unstable! Plus, they’re covered in shit! I just cleaned my dog. I don’t want to smell MORE shit!

My takeaway from this was “YoutubeTV is still a thing? I assumed that died a decade ago…”

In some cases literally

…I want free hugs!

Glad I never had tiktok and all it’s bullshit.

No no. It’ll still be seen by thousands before it’s taken down.

Blocked in 23 states, unless you want to hand over your digital ID.