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Skyrim Thieves Guild
The Thieves Guild quest in Skyrim is a vortex of disjointed plot-holes, contrivances, and nonsense.
PC Hardware is Toast
This is why shopping for graphics cards is so stupid and miserable.
TitleWhat’s Inside Skinner’s Box?
What is a skinner box, how does it interact with neurotransmitters, and what does it have to do with shooting people in the face for rare loot?
Bethesda’s Launcher is Everything You Expect
From the company that brought us Fallout 76 comes a storefront / Steam competitor. It's a work of perfect awfulness. This is a monument to un-usability and anti-features.
Why Batman Can't Kill
His problem isn't that he's dumb, the problem is that he bends the world he inhabits.
Shamus’ post about Jade Empire made me realize it’s been close to 20 years since that game was released. Gods, I feel old. D:
I’m amuse that he was so excited for Final Fantasy XII.
Over a decade later, he’d be hosting the Rocketeer’s series describing it as a junk sculpture…
Right.
That’s ironic, but such is life. Sometimes the next big thing just… isn’t.
I mean… that breaks the context of that qoute
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`If I had to describe Final Fantasy XII in two words, I would pick “fascinatingly flawed.” The game is like a junk sculpture: a grand amalgam of pieces that, individually, are often nothing special, and are often, well, junk. But sometimes, in the right light, from the right angle, these parts form a whole that pushes back all of your expectations, and, for a moment, appears to take a new form, alien and intriguing, moving as though alive. And in that next moment, a hunk shudders and falls away, and the illusion is broken again. I’d be very hesitant to call it a great game, and at times I’d balk at calling it a good game. But nonetheless, I found myself circling it, time and again, stalking that one special angle, hoping to get one more glimpse of a mystique I was certain it hid.
Then a character would open their stupid damn mouth, and the spell was shattered with my controller.`
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There’s something worth playing in FFXII, it’s just ephermal and transient as your heads crests over the murky sewer water and you see the grand caverns, decorated with breath-taking and striking crystal formations grown over millenia… and then suddenly it’s shit again as your head drops back beneath the waves..