Cyberpunk is something I'm so excited for, much more than any possibility of another Witcher game. Part of that is that I kinda don't want any more Witcher stuff, part of that is that I'm a bit burned out on fantasy in general right now but I'm always down for more cyberpunk. Ciri is totally one of the best characters in TW3 though.
Cyberpunk (the game, not the genre) isn't a new IP, though. It's a tabletop RPG system and world designed Mike Pondsmith, who, from my understanding, is very involved with CDProjekt and Cyberpunk 2077, which is adding to my excitement. Not that I don't trust CDPR to faithfully work within Pondsmith's world. I think they did a really amazing job translating The Witcher's setting into video games. It just, to me, shows a level of commitment to the general world and tone of Cyberpunk, and hopefully wont lead to another situation like CDPR seems to have with Andrzej Sapkowski.
I need everyone to know that up here in Canada, we have the MuchMusic Video Awards (the Canadian MTV Video Music Awards, if you will), and the internet tells me the video for Steal My Sunshine won the award for "Best Video", "Best Pop Video", and "Favourite Canadian Video."
That's where we were at as a country in 1999.
Hamster Dance charted up here.
We have a pretty bad track record in terms of popular music, at least throughout the 90s - early 2000s
Also it was pretty good when this song showed up in Mr. Robot.
The only times I've ever seen "try-hard" used is when someone is either: 1: actually good at a game, so they win often or 2: when someone actually starts learning deeper mechanics and meta-systems in a game that are, more often than not, required knowledge for getting better at a game.
The people calling others "try-hards" are also almost always on the losing side of a competitive game, and I've always interpreted it as a sort of frustration. "You're winning so fuck you you have no life and you try hard at this game". The subtext there has always been, to me, "but obviously I don't" along with a dismissive "I don't even care", when they're getting frustrated at losing at the thing they ostensibly have no personal stake in.
This is just hearsay that I've heard over the years I've been coming to the site, but the staff generally seems cool with people recognizing them on the street and saying "Hi".
I remember there was an e-mail about a tourist to San Francisco running into Rorie, and a story about Vinny getting a coffee with a fan in New York when he tweeted about construction near his old apartment, and the fan was living near by.
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