Q&A: July 9th, 2025

The Phantomnaut Asks
If you had a time machine to stop a certain point in gaming history, what would it be? For me I would somehow prevent Drake and Ninja to ever do that Fortnite stream that amplified our current gaming and streaming nightmares.

Oh, that's a good pick! Though I can't help but feel that'd only delay the inevitable. Somebody else woulda done it not long after if Ninja hadn't, and gaming's had several avenues of obnoxious presentation since its origins.

I think the obvious one is Ultimate Team's implementation in UEFA that eventually transferred its way into FIFA.

That too would probably delay the inevitable as well, but it'd perhaps at least allow the 7th Generation to have remained distinct rather than entering a 2nd Phase that quite frankly we're still in after all these years of incomplete microtransaction littered live-service games being the industry's pillar.

Perhaps EA would've have sent a golden neon sphere screaming MONEY into the windows of every CEO in the business.

That, or PUBG overtaking H1Z1.

Holy Shift Asks
So how's that Perfect Dark cancellation hit you? Are you gonna scramble to put it into the video now? trying to deflect the devastation with sarcasm.

Majin Brandon Asks
So how's that F1 movie?

You know... in the first twenty minutes, I was actually pleasantly surprised. The technology and techniques they brought over from Top Gun Maverick were working really well, and after decades of Fast and Furious for some reason being the better examples of driving scenes in current Hollywood, it was refreshing to have a racing movie with racing that didn't look like a bad Machinima.

However the plot is just so life threateningly dull.

I've learned years ago via a viral DOOM video from Sparky that there are Millions of people out there who truly do just want exactly what they expect to happen. Scratch underneath this Movie's surface and you've really just got Sylvester Stallone's DRIVEN from 2001 with VFX not produced by Sarge from Red vs Blue.

That's not a joke, look it up.

It's of course not nearly as laughably bad as DRIVEN is, but in a way, that's why I can't really ever envision myself re-watching it. There's good performances, I quite like all the little flourishes they gave to the characters, team, and world, and they certainly executed this idea way, way better than Codemasters did, which kinda illustrates how far certain genres of gaming still need to go in-terms of their cinematic aspirations, but...

I think a good way to sum it up is that even though, while watching F1's best racing-scenes I thought to myself "this is way better than Ford v Ferrari", I left the theatre thinking Ford v Ferrari is ultimately a way better movie, because it's a way better story.

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