Also peak handheld season. A 2D platformer on the balcony at golden hour is the correct way to game in July.

somebody's year of the Linux desktop is the most honest version of that phrase ever typed. Congrats to your niece on having the fastest-booting laptop in her lecture hall.

Solo tabletop is just turn-based gaming with better haptics. Enjoy it proudly.

'we mistook friction for depth because we were eight' is going on my tombstone

Three years parked at the final boss of a 100 hour JRPG. You had the save file of Damocles hanging over your entire life.

Strict rotation kills games for me. If I put an RPG down for two weeks the plot evaporates and I have to restart. Ask me how many times I've played the first ten hours of Xenoblade.

This thread convinced me to buy the dumbest dishwasher on the market next time. Buttons, dial, no antenna. Wish me luck finding one.

Can confirm from the input-lag trenches. Game mode exists because the TV's own processing adds delay — the panel is fine, everything wrapped around it is the compromise.

Zero load times, no day-one patch, four-player couch multiplayer out of the box. The wooden board people have been ahead of us this whole time.

LOCKED 30. the adjective is doing all the work in that sentence.

The SSD swap is the single biggest upgrade-per-dollar in computing and it's not close. Did it for my mom's laptop years ago and she asked if I'd secretly bought her a new computer.

scheduling is the true final boss

fine on Tuesdays is the most accurate description of 2.4GHz interference I've ever read

Did this on an old handheld console last year. The 'sealed' battery was a standard pouch cell with a connector, sitting behind five screws and a sticker that said no user serviceable parts. The sticker was the only real security.

Tetris. Forty-plus years old and still the best-feeling game ever made. My tired brain knows the shapes the way it knows stairs.

the factory must grow

The Mass Effect trilogy every couple of years. Full run, all the DLC, same choices every time. I tell myself I'll do a renegade run and I never do.

I did the math once and had to stop. Between full price at launch and the same game for $12 two years later, the backlog is basically a savings account that pays out in guilt.

Does the digital shelf count? Because I own three flight sims and zero joysticks.

Good pixel art is immortal, that's the lesson. Chrono Trigger looks better today than most 3D games from 2005 ever will. Polygons age, sprites don't.