It’s why Ubisoft baffles and aggravates me.

They clearly have wonderful game devs and designers working for them. A lot of their games have some really neat mechanics that are fun to play with.

But then they fuck it all up by monetizing it all to shit, or padding the game with so much useless bullshit it becomes a chore to play, or fucking up the pacing of the story with the sheer amount of useless side quests.

I’ll freely admit - I enjoy playing their open world collect-a-thon games. But I have to play it in parts, because it just gets too grating. And of course I only buy their games when they’re already a few years old, so I can take advantage of sales. No way I’m paying €120 for a game, even with all the spinning rims and fancy baubles.

A few weeks later:

Sony: Piracy is killing the industry! We need tougher legislation!

Alt+enter insta-opens properties.

“Really? So you shit with the toilet door open?”

Why waste 5 seconds every time to want to watch a video, when you can waste 10 hours writing a script to automate it?

That’s just how we programmers roll

But reports about bugs introduced by patch 6 are still pouring in :( the two hotfixes helped, but I’m still gonna wait.

Finished my first a BG3 run, blind. Was considering starting a second run, with “perfect” choices (and mods) but it seems that patch 6 broke quite some things.

Gonna spend time playing “dad games”, then. I don’t know what’s so appealing about those “X simulator” games, but I can absolutely get lost in them.

Didn’t he also join the BLM protest a while back? IIRC he has a African-American daughter in-law (and grandkids).

There’s an app for that!

It’s called UniversalPauseButton (no link because on phone, but you can Google it). It basically makes the PAUSE/BREAK button pause any active process. Press it again to unpause.

Will likely cause issues with online games, but if you’re playing offline or in single-player, like Witcher 3, Remnant, Baldurs Gate 3, etc it works wonders.

Signed, a new parent who often has to go comfort a waking baby at night.

Jim Jefferies’ childhood friend brothel story will always crack me up.