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Tycho / 2 days ago

It's all true! And I can prove it: Straight from today's comic, here is the clip of @DrLupo popping into Noah's stream. https://t.co/4XvuPV6ZqX — Gabe (@cwgabriel) February 10, 2021 It should be established, probably, that we don't actually feel this way. By which I mean, we don't bear anything like ill-will or some churlish resentment. We mostly use the strip to check ourselves at some point prior to wrecking ourselves. It's like an iron maiden we take…

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Tycho / 4 days ago

The creative director on the Ori games got mad online, and then apologized more or less immediately. His profile pic is the currently the one Gabe drew of him in the strip. Now, the loop is complete. I use the term Golden Age mostly as a euphemism. I think that to the extent a Golden Age comes about, it's not even observable in real time. Or it might be that we barrel a memory in nostalgia and the two inform each other. But I just spent twelve bucks on a fucking videogame again, another…

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Tycho / 1 week ago

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…

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Tycho / 1 week ago

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…

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