I don't have an answer to your question, I just wanna say, that while Hi-Fi Rush was a surprise hit, calling it one of the most popular games of the last 5 years is fucking wild. Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, GoW Ragnarok, Doom Eternal, Last of Us Part II, etc etc. The list of higher profile, more successful games goes on man.

I second this, I got into the beta on Friday and have been having a blast. It's remarkably polished for a beta and everyone who gets in can invite as many people as they want and those people can also invite as many people as they want and so on and so on. So it's spreading like wild fire, should be pretty easy to get into.

This speaks to my soul.

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I've not read 'B' is for Burger personally, but The Shining is one of the best novels I've ever read. I always used to think that Stephen King must have fundamentally misunderstood something to dislike the film as much as he does, or that it was simply a matter of the book always being better than the movie, but after reading it, I no longer have any confusion as to why he feels the way he does. I still love the movie, Kubrick was an artist, but it pales in comparison. I can't recommend it enough.

Congrats fam. Coming out is hard, but it feels so nice to not have to pretend to be straight anymore.

You should be complaining. Small inconveniences like shoveling snow are worth having a planet that isn't too hot for our children to survive.

I could read by the time I was playing it, but I was only 9 or 10 so I sucked at videogames lol. I'm excited to actually play through the whole thing as an adult.

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Not quite sure how sarcasm works, are you?

It's because the big studios don't want to take a risk on something new and original, they almost always want to go for the "safe" bet and pick a sequel, spinoff or remake of an established IP that they know will make money. All they care about is profit. Making flims as an art form is is a struggle for passionate directors. Take Guillermo del Toro for example, he said recently (and I'm paraphrasing) that he still gets a lot of push back from studios when he's trying to get his projects of the ground. That's because he's an artist and art is a risk.