It has to be to artificially inflate the number of views there shows are getting. Just auto-play every single fucking thing a person hovers over and your shows will never stagnate.

We unsubscribed a while back, but that was one of my biggest gripes with the platform.

Oof… Thanks for the warning!

How does the camera quality and shutter speed compare to the Pixel on these? I love the color and the style, but am unfamiliar with this brand. I briefly tried to Samsung (🤮) S22 Ultra a few years back, as it was hailed for having the absolute best camera at the time. The shutter speed was absolute garbage and I was deeply unhappy with everything It produced. Not to mention the absurd amount or unnecessary bloatware that I couldn’t remove, and this was on top or the Google services. Brought it back for a measley Pixel 4A and was very pleased. Using a Pixel 7 now and with a launcher it has been a dream.

I’m open to other brands like this, though.

I liked New Vegas quite a lot. I remember not liking it as much as 3 at the time, but looking back years later with a different perspective (and after playing Fallout 1), I appreciate and vibe with it a lot more and can’t wait to play it again… Heavily modded… With Survival Mode on.

I’ve only ever made it roughly 8 hours in, so I have the entire game ahead of me now that I’m starting anew. I’m super stoked.

After watching the Fallout series, I had the itch again so I fired up Fallout 3. I immediately fell in love with that older Bethesda-style dialogue, with so much to discuss and so many skill checks throughout… But the more I played, the more I realized how absurdly easy and jam-packed the game was with weapons, chems, and ammunition. I installed a couple of mods to improve the difficulty and scarcity of items, but it wasn’t enough. Something was missing. I realized that after having played through Fallout 1 a few years ago, my beloved Fallout 3 no longer quite scratched the itch. So I fired up Fallout 2, and I’ve fallen in love with that little game again. I love the slower pace of it all. I love inspecting every little detail of the environment, and the assortment of skills available at my fingertips to apply to my surroundings like a Swiss army knife, if I have the aptitude, of course… (Perhapsh I should join the mage’s college in Winterhold)

Now, I have no hate here for Fallout 3, because the flaws I pointed out above are not why I enjoyed the game in the past. It’s the atmosphere of the DC ruins, the satisfaction of taking shots and exploding heads in VATS, and the haunting melodies of Galaxy News Radio echoing softly from my wrist. I just have to figure out how to make it play a bit more like the classic entries. I want to leave the Super Duper Mart without combat armor, 40 stimpaks, and damn near every weapon in the game.

When it comes to burnout, I think you’ll find that Kirk leaves us all in the dust.

I’d love to see it!

Some teenagers sprayed a giant anarchy symbol on the side of the liquor store in our middle class neighborhood beside a church and a bustling shopping center. It’s the biggest and most obnoxious one I’ve ever seen, and I love it because every time I drive by with my family we all start screaming “ANNNAARRRCHHYYYYY DDDUUUUDDDEEE!!!” in the car together. I’m going to miss making fun of it when it’s eventually scrubbed.

I’d say not to waste your time on girls who play these kinds of games. That’s a weird question to ask your S.O. no matter how you swing it.

So glad to see it. One of my best friends is working on the upcoming soundtrack for it, which is a dream come true for him as a long-term super fan of the game. He did the music for The Deer God and Mines of Mars too.

STALKER, Stardew Valley, No Man’s Sky, Skyrim, Morrowind, WoW Classic/Vanilla, Mass Effect, Fallout 3/New Vegas.

Is the old version better? Is it shit? What’s up with it?

MY SON BROUGHT HOME SOME CASES OF PICKLES FROM THE CANNERY… I WAS WONDERING IF I COULD STORE THEM AT YOUR OFFICE…

Something about this sentence really makes me want to be a pirate. Like a lot.

I still don’t know how I did it, but when I’d fake sick as a child my mom would leave the room for a bit while the thermometer stuck in my mouth, beneath my tongue. I would then breath the “hottest” air I could muster repeatedly from my lungs, believing that it would bring the thermometer up to fever levels… and it always worked.

Did I just have a really chill mom who recognized when I didn’t want to go? Or could this absurd method actually trick a traditional thermometer into going up?

Maybe it’s best that I don’t know, as I have a daughter now and it’s important to have her back when she needs needs a fuckin’ day.

Bassin’s Black Bass with Hank Parker for the SNES. The best fishing game ever made.