The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
When you picture slop, you probably think of a pig trough. One long tub packed full of rotting vegetables and other garbage, mindlessly devoured by domesticated animals. The term now has come to refer to so many AAA games we’ve been seeing, or any of the “endless trash” (as Mike Stoklasa put it) getting pumped…
I’ve recently been using Grammarly to clean up articles on the blog. It’s AI scans your posts and points out grammar errors (duh) and offers suggestions to improve wording. I just have the free version, so I only get a few suggestions. Though it will still highlight problem areas, making them stand out easier for…
Obsidian’s Avowed launched this week to a dull splat. You know, sort of like that sound when you accidentally spill yogurt on the floor. While billed as the next Skyrim, the game hasn’t even managed to beat Elder Scrolls V’s concurrent player count. No, not its all-time count, but the number of people who are…
I posted an article nearly five years ago now that I was burnt out on Western gaming. My primary complaints were over the lack of innovation, rampant political correctness, and the industry’s insatiable avarice. So from that point forward, I resolved to stick with Eastern games. So far it’s been great. I discovered the Xenoblade…
Boomers are a mysterious lot. They like beige saloon cars, spending their kids inheritance, talking about how easy it is to get a job and buy a house (if you just pull up your damn socks and knock on doors!), and watching copious amounts of cable TV. One thing our senior citizen friends certainly don’t…
The face of the games industry has changed a lot since about 2008-ish. When gaming started to go mainstream, a lot of people flooded into the industry who weren’t gamers. All of whom were either chasing the golden goose or looking to shift the culture away from its perceived dude-bro aesthetic. The latter of whom…
Runescape pushed an update this week which removed male and female from the character creation screen, replacing them with “Body Type A” and “Body Type B”. This has conservative gamers in an uproar, as they believe it to be more woke mind virus infecting the industry. Which it most certainly is. However, when taken in…
I’ve been dabbling with Linux for nearly two decades now. While I’ve been bearish about it in the past, the penguins have come a long way in the last few years. So much so that it’s become my primary operating system. There’s a lot of advantages here. Particularly its light weight nature and ability to…
Gaming in 2024 is just the pits. It seems like every day we’re bombarded with more negative news. Whether it’s layoffs, yet another broken release, low review scores, dead multiplayer titles, woke developers and journalists abusing gamers, predatory monetization, even more price hikes, mergers, frivolous lawsuits, the complete lack of customer service. The list just…
Video games have a big problem with gatekeeping, and not in the way the mainstream games press would like you to believe. Gamers have often been accused, among other things, of gatekeeping their hobby to prevent it from becoming “diverse” and “inclusive”. Whatever those mean. Nerds have long been excluded for mainstream society, and are…