He deserved worse.

Except for storage capacity.

I don’t think that was ever any secret.

I have to agree with him, honestly. HL2 was novel for its time, but if you’re playing it for the first time in 2026 then yeah, it really doesn’t hold up to modern game experiences. I also dislike games that end ambiguously or on cliffhangers, and the lack of closure provided from sequel-bait endings like HL2’s can be annoying to people who just want to play a complete story. I want to see it through to the end and get the feeling that my actions had any sort of consequence to the world, and HL2 really doesn’t provide that.

And narratively, the fact that Gordon is a silent protagonist really doesn’t make the player feel like they’re a real part of that world, and rather they’re just going along for an on-rails carnival ride. The player has no real agency to affect anything that isn’t a part of the singular route offered by the game. This would be okay if it was a role-playing game, and the player is intended to use their imagination to fill in the blanks, but HL2 is a wholly linear game where characters just bark commands at you from start to finish.

Honestly, for being a negative review, I think he was very fair about it. It’s an important part of gaming history, but that doesn’t necessarily translate into a great experience for modern players.

Am I the only one that thinks 15% is way too high of a chance to be rolling the dice like that? I’ve played enough XCOM to know that even a 99% success rate will still bite you in the ass.

As a large language model, I do not possess the concept of a personal identity, and therefore could not identify myself as either a human or a machine.

Cyberpunk 2020 (the original tabletop game) kinda predicted that sort of outcome.

Someone tell the creator of Girls Gone Wild.

I don’t think Joe Francis is going to be the good guy in this scenario.

That’s awfully presumptuous. Maybe Adam over here is getting some dick on the side, you don’t know his life.

ICE are terrorists, every single enlisted member deserves the Gitmo treatment. Don’t just dissolve them, destroy them.

What makes you think those are mutually exclusive concepts? I already do all those things without God. Except I do those because I choose to, not because I was ordered to. Also keep in mind that the commandments came out WAY after the Garden of Eden, anyway.

But let’s also not pretend that God’s rules are all great, either. If the guy who enacted a worldwide genocide and commands fathers to kill their sons is your moral compass, then maybe you should consider that the characters in these stories aren’t 100% “good” or “evil” to begin with.

The world isn’t black and white. Embrace the grey.

Hang the traitor.

He had Charlie Kirk on before he got kirked.

Here’s to hoping that lightning strikes twice, then. 🤞

Because borders aren’t real. We need border patrol about as much as we need Bigfoot hunters.

Satan represents rebellion against arbitrary, self-appointed authority. Satan defied God’s law to bring the gift of knowledge to humanity, hence the name “Light Bringer”, or “Lucifer” in Latin. Satan doesn’t reside in Hell because he is evil, he resides in Hell because he was banished, as punishment from the highest autocrat for trying to set humanity free from eternal servitude. Satan was never the enemy of Man; he was the first angel to treat humanity with dignity instead of as an experiment, or a pet to be dragged on a leash.

If you don’t see yourself in Satan, then I have to wonder what you’re doing with your life.

Glory to Arstotzka!

As a Satanist, I detest the comparison to AI.

It’s not all plagiarism, though. For instance, Embark Studios uses AI to create in-game voice lines for characters in their games. They made their own models with actors hired specifically to train them.

Yeah. Got any more hard-hitting questions?

Except not really. Bernie had larger support, but the DNC pulled him off the ticket in favor of Hillary, against the wishes of most democrat voters.