Q&A: Oct 2nd, 2024
Added 2024-10-04 04:44:43 +0000 UTC[PRETEND ITS WEDNESDAY]
The_Surviv0r Asks
I've started to get in a Nine Inch Nails mood (yeah I'm quite late to the party I'm aware, you listen to a lot of random stuff doing endurance races in GT4 to pass time so I end up finding stuff I never gave the time before) and I was wondering if you had any album in particular to recommend?
It’s hard to go wrong in Trent’s catalogue.
I don’t know what tracks you’ve vibing with, but the album I started with was The Fragile, and it kept growing on me more and more with each listen. It’s the album that has everything, film score ambience, high-strung pleas of love, absolute ragers, and anything in-between.
Other albums are more specialized, from With Teeth’s heavy live-drums and memorable guitar riffs to Hesitation Marks’ minimalist synths that somehow build an overwhelming and oppressive world. Regardless of whichever you pick, there’s bound to be albums you don’t click with at first, or think little of, but steadily grow with time, especially when realizing as brilliantly varied as NIN is, it’s also all the same song…
But, it’s very awesome.
Saxm13 Asks
Have you sampled any of the new gaming handhelds on the market recently like the Steamdeck, Ally, Legion, Dragon, etc? Steamdeck definitely provides the most console-like experience in terms of ease of use and value. But I've come to really appreciate the flexibility of a full windows platform with the ROG Ally as a pseudo-laptop replacement for when my ipad drives me crazy. Curious on your thoughts and if you've tried any of them yet!
There’s an Examined Life of Gaming video about Nintendo I’m immediately reminded of, where the conclusion laments just maybe not getting Handheld gaming anymore.
My emotions are pretty similar.
It’s not that I have anything against Handheld gaming, especially now that it’s basically just like regular gaming, even on mobile devices like I covered in my Youtube video a couple years ago. Though that’s kind of why I don’t really pursue these things.
How I make a living is talking about video games, so when I’m home, I’m playing video-games, and when I’m out, there’s rarely a time that what I’m really thirsting for, is more video-games.
But man… I could’ve used a Steam Deck back when I spent more hours traveling to and from collage than I did studying in collage.
I haven’t used any of these devices yet, but I’m going across the country soon and bound to run into at least one friend that has one, and I hopefully can try out. Though, I doubt it’ll be anything more than a curiosity.
In many ways it’s actually like Handheld consoles in the 8th gen.
Awesome amazing devices… but not for me.
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As someone who has an interest in writing myself, I've tried to put together some things in my spare time. While satisfied I've pulled off short stories, reviews, etc. to various success I continue to feel as if my vocabulary is inadequate. Often, I'll come to a space where an adjective or description should go and feel stumped. How have you dealt with such problems in the past in your own work?
Michael Gross
2024-10-07 13:59:24 +0000 UTCFavorite/Least Favorite city in video games? Not like one city across multiple games, but a specific game's version of a city.
Tucker Legate
2024-10-04 10:47:45 +0000 UTCRE Q: Fair enough! I was actually the same when the switch first came out. Handhelds were mostly retired at that point and I never felt comfortable carrying an expensive device out in public like that (still don't frankly). So I pretty much never played any handheld friendly games at that point anymore. A funny thing happened when I got the Ally though, I started just playing more "portable" PC games on the couch. It makes sense considering my desktop is more for work than gaming so I'm often too tired to open up PC games on it. Ally basically became my pseudo-gaming PC for a while for games like Balatro, Rocket League, and even Cyberpunk for when I wanted slightly better performance for games without paying $90CAD locked on a console, in addition to said pseudo-laptop replacement! Basically I hope you do get to try one as it might surprise you!
Saxm13
2024-10-04 05:04:53 +0000 UTCSega put alpha protocol back on steam. Do you think they are trying to capitalize on what GoG did? They did a similar scummy thing with Space marine 1 by upping the price to $60 when sm2 was announced
Jake Malone
2024-10-04 04:48:47 +0000 UTC
