The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
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, you had a lot of people flood 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…
Runescape pushed an update this week which removed male and female from the character creation screen, instead replacing them with “Body Type A” and “Body Type B”. This has conservative leaning gamers in an uproar, as they believe it to be more woke mind virus infecting the industry. Which it most certainly is. However, when…
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…
Video games have flirted with controversy since their earliest days. Yet despite the medium being a mainstream pass time for over a decade now, the hobby continues to elicit side eyed glances. There’s one concern I’ve been seeing coming up a lot lately in both the mainstream and independent press. That’s whether video games are…
So, you’ll probably notice that I haven’t posted much in the way of new opinion pieces or gaming news lately. I’ll go through sporadic periods where I’ll write a ton of content, followed by long lulls. This site is also a hobby. I’ve never monetized it, and its number of visitors is pretty low, so…