Man, what happened to Tapper?

I used to think he was pretty on the level, but this plus his and Bash’s weak ass debate moderating have really soured me on the dude.

I guess being “bullied” off of Bluesky because people wanted him to do his job better really screwed him up.

I have this feeling that once it starts going on more sales and more people play it the general consensus will be that’s it’s a pretty solid game. I also imagine like a lot of these games there will be a patch in the next month that fixes a litany of issues.

You’re right it’s kind of interesting that the factions don’t really add a lot of meaningful gameplay mechanics, but oh well. At first I was like, “I’m not working with the Pykes AT ALL because I know what happens in your spice mines.” But you end up just being friends with all of them as needed (to get their rewards).

Just having this big coat of Star Wars paint over this otherwise fairly standard action/shooter/open world game really does make it more fun, though. I still have a bit to go in the story, but I’m just basting around cleaning up side quests right now because it’s fun to do.

For sure.

But the nerds around here put him on a GIIIANT pedestal.

It’s OK to make fun of Gabe, guys, he doesn’t care about you as he tries to figure out which of his six or seven yachts to ride around on this weekend.

Yeah! I’m enjoying it quite a bit.

ESPN knows they are suppose to report on sports, right?

I’m fortunate that I have the means and ability to go to my polling place with ease, though I’d prefer to vote with an absentee ballot because that’s easy.

But this ratfuckery stuff like this is why I’m 100% going to vote in person.

“Gabe was quoted as saying, ‘Yesss, another yacht for me!’”

Edit: Oh sorry, when he’s our billionaire he’s cool, right?

Maannn, a new Solomon’s Key game would be so cool.

Maybe we need LLMs to (first of all, we don’t need LLMs for this) rewrite headlines any time the word “slams” gets in there.

Honestly, Outlaws has flaws, BUUUUT it’s fun as hell. It’s a 7/10 game, but it’s fun. I enjoy my time with it even though I see some glitches here or there, or that the lip sync is a little jank.

It’s a big ass Star Wars game (with no AC towers hooray!) where you get to rub shoulders with scoundrels and play Sabacc and visit honestly cool locations that are visually impressive.

I feel like most of the issues it has is probably a function of “we need this game out by X date” versus the devs’ ability.

Great time for anyone with gamepass to go through FF 1-6. You can set the XP gain to 4x, so the grind is effectively gone letting you just enjoy the stories.

“I, a genius, will alienate the group who want EVs to curry favor with the group who will never buy EVs. Genius, I say.”

After the debate in the summer I lost a lot of respect for these two, and now this.

As a cyclist who really tries to point their light downward to not blind others: amen.

The light I use on my bike is on that I attach to the handle bar for each use, so it’s not super duper fixed - just meaning I can adjust it on the fly if I need to.

I 100% angle it up and point it right back at cats driving with their high beams on. Almost every time they turn theirs off and I lower my light back down.

I suspect a lot of them now are the automatic high beams that cars absolutely should not have.

Welp, let’s hope he doesn’t get hurt.

Overall I enjoyed it, but I’d say it’s probably a mid-tier FF if you we are taking them all as a whole. So, to me, it’s a solid RPG and a solid game, but it doesn’t redefine anything, necessarily.

But I definitely enjoyed it.

I had seen some complaints that you “only get one sword! It’s dumb!” And I don’t know where that came from: you craft lots of swords. Maybe they are upset you only use a sword as your primary melee weapon? To which I might point out Cloud, Squall, Tidus, Lightning, most FF protagonists in games without job systems. It’s a sword plus magic like most FF games.

Maybe the complaint is that you don’t get to use other characters since they mostly just do their own thing. OK, sure. But also, that’s the game. If they’d have just lifted the FF7 combat people would bitch about that, too. It’s like a no-win situation.

All these dudes look like JD Vance in different stages of his life.

Nice!

Now how will we get NBA breaking news?*

*this isn’t sarcasm. Who should we look to now?