Penny Arcade

There's only a handful of games where I come through as a Factor. This is the Kiko term: he once called me a factor in a game three years ago and I'm still high. So, not being a factor is pretty normal for me. "You have a measurable effect" wouldn't constitute a compliment generally, but that's the state of play. "I noticed you were there" is accompanied in my body by a biochemical peal of angelic trumpets. If you seek baseline competence in niche endeavors like Gloomhaven…

I mean, it's some very PC shit, honestly. I'm sure that in Destruction AllStars, it sees the controller as both a Speaker and a Microphone and just maps them. As a practical matter, though, we haven't had to put up with shit like this in multiplayer games for… man. It's been a minute. Gabe says that once you turn off this unique functionality the game is "fine." Ordinarily I could give or take a free game for a system I don't own, there's no case here that…

Before we go into anything else I want to emphasize something at maximum volume. I already made a big deal out of the fact that Gunfire Reborn - a game at the crossroads of every salient trend in the industry - was only twelve fuckin' dollars. Except now this twelve (fuckin') dollar game is on sale for nine dollars and forty seven cents! You could buy four of these, which is the correct amount, and give them to your friends. It's recently been approved for medical use as I…

I think I actually do understand what is happening with Gamestop, Short Squeeze, this type of stuff, but it's spreading into contexts like AMC with very different dynamics. There are so many metaphors out there in the marketplace, and they're all a little different, and all a little wrong, so generally you just believe whatever you believed before. I resent, in some ways, being made to understand it. It reminds me of a craps table, where most people just play the line bet or…