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This game probably deserves more attention than what it got and I also remember the graphics looked great but I fell off the difficulty hard.

Jeff G. complained on Beastcast 304 that Limbo and Inside were floaty and slow but at least that made them forgiving games that I could complete.

I need to post in at least one GTxForza thread so I will list one that hasn't been mentioned yet (even if it might not be my favorite):

Rush

Although it has too much CGI, the era of F1 and drivers it referenced were some of the most fascinating in racing history.

American Graffiti, Need for Speed and Convoy are pretty fun but Vanishing Point is probably my "tasteful" favorite.

Totally missed out on PS2 due to being into PCs at the time and this game has always fascinated me in a weird way.

Completed my first championship in Dirt Rally 2 GOTY edition and really enjoyed tinkering with setups and all those near-misses (and occasional off-road adventures).

Plus all those kilometers of stages look pretty great.

In a world where it seems more and more convenient and likely for countries to give up physical cash I'd prefer to still have a form of state-sanctioned anonymous (at least in some form) currency be it blockchain-based or whatever.

I know very little about proof of work but the immutability seems fascinating if you could harness it for tamper-free online voting or deepfake-proof multimedia evidence.

Part of the problem of online data (and most data in general) is you can never really trust the origin unless it's signed and certificates themselves are dependent on certain corporate authorities that we "trust".

EDIT: I totally agree about the absurdity of the energy wasted not to mention the hardware built and designed specifically for this purpose. Though you might say the same about all the energy used for running consoles and gaming PC's purely to keep people entertained.

At the end of the day energy from electricity is vastly preferable in that it might be based on green sources, to activities using energy from burning carbon directly. Energy is not a zero-sum game if we invest the resources in researching modern technologies.

I've got 3 bikes (for different terrain) and enjoy riding 2 of them. I've actually started to enjoy fixing basic stuff as it's something physically useful and tangible compared to my real job.

I wouldn't call it a hobby that I relax doing sports on/in water even if I'm kind of a klutz but that's probably 4 months of the year around here.

I get sick of games more often now I grow older and have played so many but now I know they'll still be there if I feel like playing again.

EDIT: Forgot to mention potted plants (especially the arid kind)

There can be only one Buck Bumble at 5:50

A minute or two later Dan also characterizes Chuck Berry as Drum'n'Bass... One of Dan's golden quotes.

Good mentions. This is going to sound weird but horror sometimes helps me tackle social situations by imagining the worst intentions in people and usually being proven wrong. Fear is an emotion almost all humans have experienced and horror fans probably might be more adjusted to Covid-19 lockdown by watching too many zombie movies.

I'm not so much into folk horror but there have been other recent horror movies that are decent like Us, It Follows and Super Dark Times. I'm not sure if The Lighthouse is horror but that movie is offensively thrilling.

Sometimes I wonder if Stephen King is projecting when so many of the male protagonists in his books are also writers, hehe.

Alan Wake is one of the few games I have replayed start to finish (Barry wasn't as annoying on the second playthrough) and once it grabbed me I actually enjoyed it more than Red Dead Redemption (that unfortunately overshadowed it by coming out on the same day) and I never finished the DLC Undead Nightmare in that. People complain about the shooting getting tedious in Alan Wake (it's one of the best feeling third-person shooters to me) but I got sick of using deadeye in RDR after a while because I refuse to use auto-aim.

Your writing seems better than what I can write in my incoherent forum posts. Maybe relax with descriptive adjectives but I prefer action in writing to descriptions. Otherwise keep it up!

Forgive me for saying but for someone who's experienced the game industry so closely for so many years, Brad's take seemed a little naive. But he will also forgive Bethesda for almost anything and then throw CD Projekt Red under the bus the moment they miss a beat. I'm not saying one excuses the other but those are some double standards. Kind of feel the same way about the Call of Duty toxicity getting a free pass.

I'm glad I got my MMO fix from other games than WoW and ultimately they're "just" corporations, sigh.

Thanks for this. My "missing" game might be Wasteland 3 that I know was buggy but might have sneaked into someone's top 10.

Compared to how weak 2020 was for movies I would say games did pretty alright all things considering.