Year: 2024

Halo TV show: Episode 6, season 2 – Women!

Episode 6 shall now be known as “Women of Halo”. Every single person of some importance, except the Master Chief, is now a woman. It gets a bit much seeing so many women in military roles. I know they had female marines in the Halo games/books, but not to this extent. That is not all, almost every character that drives the plot forward is now a woman. For a game that started as a man’s fantasy of a heroic soldier, has now been totally subverted. Congrats modernity.

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Watch Dogs: Legion – Bloodline

The original Watch Dogs: Legion (Watch Dogs 3) was a bit of a hit or miss. It had serious potential with its sandbox nature of recruiting whoever you wanted off the street to work for your little hacker revolution. However, the implementation wasn’t great. It suffered from weird randomization, like having characters’ looks not matching the voice, massive story issues, and the lack of a central protagonist. The near-future City of London was and still is awesome. It has this cool dystopian feeling to it, with high surveillance and military-esque police patrolling the streets. It got a surprising number of things right. For example, the checkpoint system that now is a reality in London – all for the concerns of the mythical “environment”. All in all, a realistic depiction of the WEF future we all have to look forward to, so what’s not to like? Everyone enjoys a good despair from time to time.

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Halo TV show: Episode 5, season 2 – Paintball time

It’s time for my weekly dose of sleeping aid. However, I didn’t fall asleep during the show this time, but if the suffering lasted any longer I would surely have. So, what happened in this episode? Well, nothing. Master Chief and crew managed to flee Reach. Soren’s girlfriend somehow succeeds in bypassing the ship blockade of the planet and finds them in the ruins of Reach. Before that, one of the Spartans (the female one) almost suicide by “rescuing” a corpse. I guess the drugs the Spartans are on screws with their sense of survival instincts.

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The Sweet Baby Inc controversy

Now, this is a doozy. I don’t like to talk about this kind of stuff too much, but I find this thing too big to ignore since it directly influences my fun in the form of video games. Anyway. It seems the normie, the mainstream gamer has finally awoken to see what the gaming industry has become – a cesspool of SJWs, nepotism, and a hatred for white men. I’m not even hyperbolic, as this is what consulting writing gaming company Sweet Baby Inc. stands for, which you can see in for example conference talks they do. They are not exactly hiding it, and most of this has been documented, even if they now try to scorch the earth and remove all evidence. But the internet never forgets.

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Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance [Quick Impressions]

Welcome to the weird Terminator future, where John Connor gets assassinated on a beach and never becomes the grand general in the war against the machines – in other words, Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance is based on the ridiculous Terminator reboot timeline. To me, this is a big strike against the game, but honestly, while in-game, it’s mostly a question of aesthetics. Which, to be fair, can make or break a game, but here it’s mostly a minor disappointment, then stay-away annoying. For example, the units you control look like typical modern US marines, instead of the cool sci-fi and Vietnam-inspired badass soldiers from Terminator 2.

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