thecashewkid

I'm less worried about what happens when the boys start to think about hanging up the trunks than I am whether or not an idea like Giant Bomb will be sustainable up until that time. I don't know that we're in a place where we can really say what would be a thing that people can do in ten years, so maybe the landscape is so different by the time the boys are done that they're already doing their third or fourth thing since the giant bomb. Im' drunk and I guess I'm thinking about wrestling a lot, so I keep saying the boys. Worked shoot.

If you look at video games as a whole, and I mean in literally every single aspect of video games, from chatter on XBox Live to forum posts to the expectations of trade shows and conventions, and you are unable to recognize that they are by and large unfriendly and uninviting towards females, then I don't think that I can actually engage with you on this topic. Y'all just make me sad.

We're top 50 now. I might be able to hit 100 jobs on this one before the night is through

I've never used android as a phone os, but installed android on my HP Touchpad because it's a lot better than WebOS. It's fine, it's got its charms, but it's not friendly and the Android Marketplace/Google Play are terrible places to search for and discover software. That's weird, too, cuz it's Google and everything and that's what they do, but I'm not a fan.

Accidental or not, the fact is that you can't prove it was an honest mistake to everybody and that's bad for business. When you sign up for that job, you accept certain responsibilities and one of them is to be held accountable for your language. He could have turned a million different phrases, but he chose one that includes a term which doubles as an ethnic slur for Asians when he was discussing a basketball player of Taiwanese decent. A suspension is fair. As far as the mobile site goes, the headline writers live for puns. He knew what he was doing and deserves to be fired. Bretos deserved his suspension. If you don't agree with the way ESPN does things, then don't watch their programming. There are a million other reasons besides not to. If this is the moment where you think ESPN crossed the line, then you haven't paid attention to anything that ESPN has done over the last few years.

A lot of people are just mad at Sony for a bunch of stupid shit that they did and that they said. The ps3 was $600 at launch. That is too much money to charge for a game console now, and it was WAY too much money then before they stretched the field so greatly. They deserve a lot of the hate they get.

But I'm a guy who doesn't play games online enough to want to pay $50 a year to play online sometimes. I had a 360, but I never liked turning it on. It bugged me to pay for live but still see ads all over the place, i hated how gaudy everything was, and I hated having to buy their weird currency to buy games. Once my disc drive gave out, I just put it on a shelf and last hooked it up to play Bastion. I just don't like the damn thing, and I know I'm not the only one that feels this way. It's just shitty because I'd love to be able to play the odd game of Left 4 Dead, and I'd love to have an unbroken version of Skyrim.

I had a lot of fun playing this game on PS3 tonight, and it would be nice if the community for this game could exist for a little while. The whole thing is a catch 22, because I need to get a new xbox and pay for xbox live to ensure I'll have people to play with sometime in the future when I occasionally want to play, but I refuse to pay for a service I'll only ever want to use occasionally. Being poor is a real bummer.

I'm really curious as to how everything went down here. Let's face it: Ueda is never going to get a deal like he had with Sony with anybody else. Sony gave him seemingly unlimited resources so that he could develop artistic showpieces for their consoles. That said, he hasn't lived up to his end of the bargain this generation. I can imagine that there have been many conflicts between Ueda and Sony as of late, and I can't help but feel that Ueda is at least as much to blame for them as Sony. He's supposed to make games, and there's very little evidence of him doing that as of late. Combine that with the lukewarm response that the much-delayed GT5 received, and I'd be shocked if Sony wasn't nudging him a bit. It's fine to be a perfectionist, but you still have to deliver a product. Ueda hasn't done that in a long, long time.

All that said, this is a huge loss for everybody, not just Sony. Nobody is ever going to give Ueda the freedom and the resources that Sony gave him, and are people really that excited about the prospect of him making smaller games? That's like people being relieved that, once the Sistine Chapel was finished, Michealangelo was free to doodle some postcards. Is Ueda even interested in making something like an iPhone game? Ico and Shadow of the Colossus are unique because they are ambitious and epic in a way that nobody else has the gumption, the resources, or the ability to make. The Last Guardian will hopefully deliver on the promise of those two games when it finally comes out. There's a very good chance that we'll never see anything like that again, or at least not for a very, very long time. I'm not even much of a fan of his work, but I'm immensely pleased that it exists. It's distressing because if Sony, a platform holder which places a premium on the high end creations of artists like Ueda, can't make something like this work, then it's doubtful that anybody else can and it's even more doubtful that anybody else would be willing to.

Leisure Suit Larry in 2011 is only slightly more relevant than Custer's Revenge. I replayed LSL5 sometime like two or three years ago, and the whole thing just made me sad. A fresh coat of paint isn't going to make these games worth playing. They deserve to stay in the past, where they will still be remembered with a chuckle and a smirk.

I was excited for it, but as it went on that excitement sort of vanished. I loved where they were going with it, all with sabotages and investor check ins and such, but I don't think anybody counted on Farmville actually being that dull. It's Zynga's fault that Betting the Farmville couldn't hold up.

It's incredibly specific and nobody is going to understand it, but nobody understands half the tee shirts that are out there in the world. I think it's awesome.