Love that game. The gameplay was not good, but the script was hilarious. They knew exactly how ridiculous the Skittles connection was.

It’s also where I learned that the singular of Skittles is “Skittles”. No such thing as a Skittle.

Reminds me of this classic:

It’s ok to just not be that into gaming anymore. But if you are looking for a game to get into, they’re out there.

Pretty positive you’re just not seeing it, because 2025 has been awesome.

Hades 2. Silksong. Split Fiction.

If a Donkey Kong or a Mario Kart had come out in 1998, it’d be in this picture.

And then I didn’t play Death Stranding 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, or Blue Prince, but the word of mouth is excellent.

Also Outer Worlds 2.

Fair enough. Still not exactly a masterpiece.

My favorite part about 2007 for video games was how close it was to 2008, the actual best year in gaming.

That’s when indie games started getting a foothold on consoles, including Braid and Castle Crashers. Plus Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, and the Wii hitting its stride with Wii Fit, Mario Kart, and a Smash Bros. Not to mention mainstream fare like CoD: World at War, MGS 4, and GTA 4.

Depends what you mean by “greatest”. Most revolutionary? Biggest leaps forward? Possibly.

But most of those games don’t hold up today.

We’re also getting a strong cheerleader effect on this picture. Mario Party 3? Turok?

I’ve played Magic against him a couple times. Great dude.

Stranger in a Strange Land. I was told I’d like it because it was critical of religion, but it turns out it was only critical of organized religion. Too specific for my tastes.

That depends where she is. Alimony is rare in Texas, for example. She might get a small amount of spousal support for a few years, but she’s going to need to start a career soon.

My very first Lemmy post was in what is essentially the only Lemmy comics group, and it got removed because it contained “profanity”.

I was trying to post original content directly to Lemmy, which is something no one ever does. But it got removed, so fuck it, I posted it to reddit. Two hours later, it was on the front page of reddit. So not to toot my own horn, but I think that’s a sign that it was pretty fucking premium OC, the kind of content that a Lemmy mod should want in their community.

I’ve since seen it reposted all over the internet, and it’s hit the reddit front page several more times.

The profanity in question: “balls”.

and shave down their Senate majority by two or three seats.

That’s not a wipeout then.

I get that, but it seems disproportionate. I mean we’re still talking about it seven years later.

Yeah I never really understood the backlash on that one. I actually would love to play Diablo on my phone. But like a good Diablo.

“Heroes Reborn”

They changed it to that in season 3, with no explanation. Probably because the writers couldn’t be bothered to actually watch the damn show to see what powers he’d had.

In season 1, he could use the powers of anyone he’d been near, but he had to be able to summon up the emotions that person had made him feel.

… Is that Dean Cain?

Heroes.

The first half of the first season was so good. The second half was ok. Every subsequent season gave the impression that it was handed off to a different writer every week, and that those writers hated each other.

They changed the rules constantly, except when they just ignored the rules.

The main character collects new powers as the show goes on, but he never uses them. He just completely forgets that he has them. Kind of like the time he completely forgets he has a girlfriend and never mourns her, mentions her, or even acknowledges that he lost her somewhere in an alternate timeline or something.

That’s not much better than the villain. The entire first season is about stopping him from doing a specific thing, because a time traveler has foreseen that it’ll result in the world ending. Season two opens with him doing that thing, and everything is fine. He has at least three heel-face turns, which are immediately undone when the next writer is up to bat.

One good character undergoes a terrible transformation and murders a bunch of people, but the next season he’s suddenly good and everyone forgot. Again.

Constant retcons. This character is actually that character’s secret brother! This one lady who died was actually triplets! It adds nothing to the story and makes no sense, but there it is!

(I’m not joking either. Secret triplets.)

They did a reboot of the show a few years later and did the exact same thing.

You’re correct. There are things that don’t connect, but there’s not like a ton of internal contradictions.