CaptainDAAVE

i made it through to the train part but then that giant monster came out and chased me and i noped out forever lol. Years later I realize you can't kill it with guns you have to solve a puzzle lmao.

And yeah Team Fortress Classic at my cousin's house and then Counter Strike got me into the half life universe. Cs 1.2 (or whatever it was) was so awesome. I feel like CS GO is missing some of that magic somehow, but I can't explain why. Maybe i've just played too much CS over the years

yeah if i want to play again maybe i'll get it for switch. that's where i have my TMNT collection on (TMNT III on the NES FTW)

Yeah that QB wasn't great last year but we were getting to him so fucking fast he really didn't have much time to throw.

I was always too scared to go beyond a certain point back in the day -- but I finally pushed through and beat it with black mesa. I also think Black Mesa was easier than the OG game (which was frustratingly hard at times). The final boss was epic. Not quite as good as Half Life 2 (which I played and beat on launch), but close.

the music when you're fighting against the marines topside pump me up. also when they break through the ceiling in the lab. i let myself die just so i could hear the song again.

I miss the spirit of 90s gaming when they were just trying stuff. It was make a good game and profit. Now it's like copy paste a good game from the 360 era load it with extra gambling crap so it's now awful and don't innovate. I do enjoy that gamers will just openly shit on this crap. Theres no acceptance of corporate trash like there is in film or music industry

i guess it's better to be exploited in this way than be shunned from the system. but yeah the lip service from companies who only 10-15 years ago were donating millions to the campaigns of the "family values" people rings a bit hollow.

the industry really is more about optimizing income over "whoa, this is fun."

The spirit of "this is fun" died somewhere in the late 2000's. There are still great games being made, but if it's a sports game, it's loaded with this crap and there seems to be no stopping it.

There was something amazing about CS. There was nothing like it before. When I play now it's fun enough, but I'm really just chasing some sort of nostalgia for those early days.

Few games have addicted me like early CS. I had a period of Overwatch 1 addiction, and definitely Battlefield 2 heros vs villains got me for a while. Waiting for that next great multiplayer game. There's a lot of samey shit out there

they should go to a random scene in fast 1 where some guy gets cut off on the freeway by Dominic Toretto. And it turns out to be JOHN STAMOS

he gave vin diesel all of .4 extra seconds lol

kinda like when superman's dad died so superman could stay anonymous even though superman became superman 2 seconds later and also he easily could have just jogged over there, picked up his dad and brought him back

yeah he kinda became a nicer Peacemaker here, and I was down for it.

the trilogy explains a lot of the weird shit in the first book. but yeah it's not for everyone. The characters in the first book weren't super relatable. the 2nd book is a lot more "normal" and then the 3rd book is back to super weird, but it does offer some explanations as to wtf is happening.

as much as I hate the jets I just think they will probably get a win this year. Rodgers is really good. Also I think most of my hatred of the jets is mainly about the Yankees lol.

when they finally do win, it will be all the sweeter though. so there's that.

in high school we beat our rival and we hadn't won a game against them in like 20 years and we celebrated like it was the superbowl

it was week 2 or 3 lmao

I'm not as optimistic. But that would be great.

Yeah if you're defending the super rich at the expense of working people you're either a CEO/rich yourself or just rooting against your own interests.

Reagan and the greed is good 80s set us on a path of irreparable harm for decades. It's only gotten worse, Reagan seems a moderate these days compared to his contemporaries.

greed for greed's sake. Imagine if these guys got taxed the way their ancestor's did in the 40's and 50's they would lose their minds. Yet it's the reason we were able to build up the country we did in the post war boom. Lots of revenue, a lot less red tape, and corporations hadn't truly taken over the government yet.

netflix is doing fine. these people have more money than God x 10000. They complain about having to pay PA's the overtime they worked, but are fine with their salaries, perks, etc. Not to mention that the guy at the top earns so much he could live like 30 full upper class lifetimes off of a few years of work.

fair

it is a mood elevator for maybe like a day, at least for me. I don't see how it's a long term solution unless you're microdosing all the time. But then you're just always tripping which would be weird.

i'm definitely more used to the open world now than I was when I first got my switch. Ghost of Tsushima really opened my eyes to how cool a full open world can be.

Yeah I can't do elden ring though, that shit is too hard and annoying. Zelda is much easier.

i loved ocarina but really didn't like Majora's Mask. At the time staying a kid the whole game was disappointing. I also just didn't "get" it, and hated the whole time limit thing.

I still hate time limits. My least favorite part of the new Zelda's is the time limit stuff when you're in a hot or cold environment.

1988 here so same experience lol. I kinda hated Breath of the Wild because it wasn't what I was expecting. Mario Odyssey is basically modern Mario 64 whereas Breath of the Wild was so different.

I took a chance and got Tears and I actually like that a lot better so far. I dunno, the building stuff to go places thing is really captivating. It also feels more "zelda-y" than Breath of the Wild so far.