Rusty Ronin

Dave Chappelle said speaking ill of George Floyd was wrong because he was dead. Now he says he feels better that Charlie Kirk was murdered. That is a textbook double standard.

It's still to this day one of the best Dragon Ball Z games ever made.

The last thing Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang saw before shipping Blackwell AI chips straight to the CCP.

I guess this will be the last ever N7 Day celebrated. I loved the original Mass Effect trilogy, it pushed the boundaries of what video games could be at the time and it was a great piece of action, sci-fi, and storytelling. The ending of ME3 upset some people but we won't talk about that... What Bioware became after that though was completely unrecognisable. By the time that Dragon Age: The Veilguard came out, the company had been infested with people that no longer knew what gender they were, dudes thinking that they were women, and spending time lecturing the old fanbase that if you don't support them then that makes you all of the 'ists' and the 'phobes' in the book. When you do all of those things, what happens? You tend to alienate your core fanbase and they walk away and don't buy the product. This I feel is what sealed Bioware's fate and I have zero remorse for them. I will end however on a good note and say that we still have those older titles to enjoy and replay and that's the version of Bioware that I would like to remember.

People saw the new Stellar Blade ad and decided the woman in it had to be AI. She is a real model. They were wrong. To me it looks like another reason to go after a game that has been criticised since launch, and it succeeded anyway. Attractive characters sell games. Get over it.

Fine by me. I'll continue to not watch it as it's trash anyway.

It's still an amazing game to this day.

Gamers aren't the priority anymore.

The passing of RJ Mitte is a reminder that someone can look fine on the outside and be struggling on the inside. I see a lot of people my age, millennials especially, carrying more than they let on. Do not suffer in silence. There is always someone to talk to, whether it is a friend, family or a support group. If you see someone struggling, reach out to them.

I just wanted to quickly say hello to all my new followers who have joined recently. And a thank you to @AzzurraS4 as well for the shoutout. 👍

This was THE game for me where you heard all kinds of stuff being said in lobbies if you had your Xbox 360 headset on. I loved every second of it! 🤣

The Rings of Power is an abomination to me. I quit during season 1, episode 1. All of it is an insult to Tolkien’s legacy.

They'll sell this as protecting children, but it's another step towards mandatory age verification, less privacy and more government oversight of our online lives. I grew up during the Xbox 360 era and heard all kinds of shit being said through headsets, and I'm doing just fine. Most under-16s have parents or guardians who should be responsible for deciding what their children can access. Let parents do their job. It's not the government's responsibility to do it for them.

Tolkien spent years meticulously outlining why Orcs act the way they do, and it had nothing to do with modern Hollywood character arcs. In his mythological framework, evil cannot create independent life, it can only warp and ruin what already exists. In Letter 153, he explicitly stated that Orcs are a horribly corrupted race. They are a direct manifestation of the worst parts of human nature like cruelty, tyranny, and absolute malice. Trying to give an Orc a sympathetic redemption arc completely misses the point of the lore. They are tragedy incarnate because they are generationally broken and twisted by ultimate evil. Subverting this just to check a modern storytelling box proves the writers fundamentally misunderstand the strict theological rules Tolkien built into Middle earth.