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1. about 17 hours ago on Ink Pen

   And now you see why Yuri Lowenthal’s Spider-Man from Insomniac Games wears sneakers.

2. 4 days ago on Bloom County

   The White House isn’t Downing Street, mate. And incidentally, the first non-white in Downing Street did turn out to be a conservative…thank goodness for Keir Starmer.

3. 7 days ago on Ink Pen

   I only said that in the game, Tyr was said to be long dead. It is in Tyr’s footprints that Kratos and Atreus initially treaded…

   …although if you remember, the Tyr they met was actually a heavily disguised Odin. (One of Richard Schiff’s finest performances, I think)

4. 8 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Agent 47, we could seriously use you right now…

5. 8 days ago on Ink Pen

   The confusion comes because more people are used to the Marvel Comics’ Thor, not the proper Norse Thor. (Although the Thor appearing in God of War: Ragnarok bears a surprising resemblance to Ink Pen’s Tyr, who is said to be long dead in the game’s continuity)

6. 18 days ago on Rudy Park

   So I forgot to carry the fives.

   Are we going to quibble over arithmetic, or are we going to pan for what’s salvageable in Star Wars?

7. 19 days ago on Rudy Park

   I’m counting the original Intellivision 8-bit “The Empire Strikes Back” from 1982 and including the trail-off leading into 2023’s Star Wars: Jedi Survivor as the beginning and end of my timeline. The thirty-year span in the parenthesis is the main body of work.

8. 19 days ago on Little Fried Chicken and Sushi

   Mada kaeranaide kudasai

9. 19 days ago on Rudy Park

   If it wasn’t for the forty years’ worth of video games (from 1986 up till 2016), Star Wars would be entirely irredeemable by now…

10. 23 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    The World of Assassination is the culmination and compilation of the Hitman game-as-a-service, a digital open-world where players travel to exotic locales as the immaculately-suited bald man with a barcode on the back of his head who I was invoking at the start of this thread, blending into the crowds and borrowing the clothes of anyone they need in order to get to their target: to stage an unfortunate freak accident, to get their hands dirty with a visceral strangulation, or to send a bullet from miles away or only a few steps, and try to get the hell outta dodge without setting off alarms.Or they can go Peckinpah and shoot the place full of holes. No skin off their fingers.

    Or, if you prefer the shorthand:Black suit, red tie, no hair, fiber wire, twin 45s, and a sniper rifle folded in his briefcase.

    Or:The World of Assassination is the always-online version of the classic Hitman video games.