T w e n t y S i d e d
This one is a study in Xenobiology. And toilet jokes.
Dead or Alive 5 Last Round
I'm not surprised a fighting game has an absurd story. I just can't figure out why they bothered with the story at all.
Programming Vexations
Here is a 13 part series where I talk about programming games, programming languages, and programming problems.
The Dumbest Cutscene
This is it. This is the dumbest cutscene ever created for a AAA game. It's so bad it's simultaneously hilarious and painful. This is "The Room" of video game cutscenes.
Silent Hill 2 Plot Analysis
A long-form analysis on one of the greatest horror games ever made.
The Best of 2019
I called 2019 "The Year of corporate Dystopia". Here is a list of the games I thought were interesting or worth talking about that year.
Wonder where they’ve hidden the person who thought of this.
This somehow reminds me of Yahtzee’s review of Call of Juarez: Bound in blood… something about eating danger and s…ting bullets.
I am reminded of finding unopened potato chips (or money) in the trash cans in System Shock 2.
I’m reminded of drinking toilet water in Fallout 3 to heal yourself.
I just picked up on the title: “The Circle of Ammunition”. Awesome.
But now I have The Lion King’s theme stuck in my head…
A little bit off-topic, but I wanted to say I like the new Stolen Pixels logo… it’s been there for a couple issues or so?… with sorta the stolen “O” look — did you make it yourself? (…and, your banner ads here for Stolen Pixels need to be updated, too :) )
I really like the idea of a society of people who eat nothing but guns and poo bullets. I would imagine it’s a very manly society.
From reading the title, I totally thought this was going to relate to the soldier turret’s magical ring of ammunition generation. Anyway, one time while I was driving through northern Texas with some friends, I found a half-dozen 22 bullets in a rest station urinal. I decided to leave them there for the next guy. I guess, in some respects, Texas is somewhat similar to Pandora.
Well, if my memory serves me right, I found my share of shotguns and 10mm pistols (with their respective ammo)in refrigerators in fallout 1 and 2. So, nothing new here. Well, except for the toilets.