Watching The Stand (2020) . I'm through the fourth episode and finishing because I love the source material. There are a LOT of time skips that would probably make it needlessly difficult to follow for someone who hadn't read the novel and/or seen the 90s adaptation. The Harold storyline is told in ...

Yeah it's a good moment to be a patient gamer.

I curse the unavailability of top hardware but thank the dark gods that I can run everything on high with 5 year old hardware (so long as I keep it off 4K or VR). Not a luxury we would have enjoyed with 5 year old Voodoo3 rigs.

the skinner box model The only hill I will die on complaining about how the old days were so great is in the infection of the industry with the Skinner box model. It's not total, it's not complete. You can still get good new games with good new graphics and good, modern design that doesn't have a S...

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always a banger

clintmemo wrote:And I loved how they did a thank you message for the fans at the end.

Word is that the fan culture for that show is veeeeeeery dedicated.

Yeah it's like retro anything else. It's an observation that's hard to make until you're a little older (the music of your school years showing up on stations that market themselves by decade might be a rough signal that you're there). A sample of the most popular and/or aged-well content (games, mu...

The piles of clones in the Zahn books were cheesy and bad storytelling and Filoni/Favreau haven't done anything nearly that dumb yet

It wasn't.

Oh good.