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You have a job lined up right out of college in a field directly related to your degree. I think you should allow yourself to be over the moon about that.

It's interesting to see so many people say they felt no different when they graduated. I was so proud of myself for finishing I had to hold back the tears when I walked out of my capstone presentation knowing I was officially done.

I always held Rage in the same box I put Crysis in; extremely pretty but also incredibly vapid and uninteresting. I'm also not a huge fan of wacky post apocalyptic worlds...besides Tales from the Borderlands I actually kinda despise that trope.

Bethesda has been treating me well lately though, and I do enjoy how they've handled this leak. Hopefully this turns out better than I anticipate.

CD Projekt Red announces a release window of Q2 2019 for Cyberpunk 2077.

One of the most common traps that makes a protagonist bad is a lack of character flaws. Conversely, a lack of redeeming qualities is what makes an antagonist bad.

Joel is a great character even though I disagree with some of his actions because those actions reflect real human behavior that I can recognize and empathize with. If he had no redeeming qualities, this connection would not exist. I think that balance is what makes a character feel real or not, and whether or not they seem real is actually what determines if they are a good or bad protagonist.

This trailer is amazing; just about every frame is unique and interesting in some way. It's obviously too early to tell what kind of game will come out of it, but props to Mundfish for crafting a trailer that put their game (and themselves for that matter) on my radar.

I think most of us go through a maturation process with regards to review scores and how we feel about them. I used to care about them in a tribal way; I wanted the games I liked to get better scores than games I didn't like so that me and my team would 'win'. As I grew up, I stopped looking at scores as discrete measurements of quality and started viewing them as a percent chance that I might enjoy a game.

Basically, I stopped using review scores to validate my opinions and started using them to help me broaden my horizons and play things I might not have otherwise checked out.

I used to rent and trade when I didn't have a job/early in my career when my pay wasn't great. Now that I'm more comfortable I just buy games and keep them. The funny thing is I probably spend less on games now than I did back then.

I feel like the current generation is only just now getting into its groove. Let's keep it around a few more years.

• Prey (2017)
• The Punisher (2005)
• No One Lives Forever 1 & 2
• Maximo: Ghosts to Glory
• Ninja Five-0

• Big Trouble in Little China
• The Fifth Element
• Big Fish
• Dead Poets Society