[Top 10 New Horror Games of 2021]

I haven't really seen much in horror for 2021

[Best Mortal Kombat Game]

The game actually has a story? I thought it was just fighting

[Okami]

Is $10 worth it for ps4? 

[How far in advance of planning to play a game do you buy it?]

20 hours ago, killamch89 said:

I do it all the time - I've bought Mad Max for YEARS and still haven't gotten around to it as yet. I can name so many games in my Steam library that need that bit of love but are stuck in the friendzone...

I recently got Mad Max and will start on it soon...been wanting to try it for a while. 

[Have you ever not purchased a game because of reviews?]

A review can only turn me away from a game if it reinforced my suspicion on something in particular. I don't know where people's heads are at when they review, what they look for and all, but I have played many games that I really love and have low ratings. And I have played games that have higher ratings which to me wasn't really user friendly as a game. 

For example in Metacritic, I can go down the list from highest to lowest ratings and most of my favorite games are around 80 and below. I'm confused on that. Last I checked this was still Earth and was still spinning. 

A recent game I've played is Layers of Fear 2 with a score of 68. WTF WTF WTF. Too many people got too much mercury in their teeth and are brain dead. Do they just not get it??? Well, to me that game is brilliant. It deserves the highest awards. So they should see a dentist and get those old fillings out and I will welcome the new outlook when those neurons start reconnecting. 

[Resident Evil 9 may as well feature Bigfoot and/or aliens. LOL.]

RE7 did a great job of the monsters, especially the ones that looked human. There is something really terrifying about that. I think they should keep them looking human for the most part, but maybe possessed or aliens that look human. If they get carried away with monsters that don't look human at all, then that loses fear factor for me. 

[Why do so many video games feature tragic endings?]

It could be a signal that they don't want to make a sequel so the fans won't pressure it. Maybe they want to move on to other things. Also, drama sells. Drama just needs to be used appropriately and not thrown in there for a tear and farewell. To me that is a 'meaningless death.' If they were able to get you attached to a character and killed off in a meaningful way, then that death could be justified. But if there isn't much character build, then don't bother with a death of the main character. That cheapens it. It cheapens death. 

If death doesn't make you reflect on the character, then don't cheapen my heart. 

[How far in advance of planning to play a game do you buy it?]

42 minutes ago, The Blackangel said:

I've been told not to play the game due to a crippling phobia. That's why I haven't played it ....yet.

Oh, that's right. There are a couple scenes that have that. But to know you can stop at that point and try again later is something worth the try to see if you can get through it. From what I remember, nothing like that appears till later in the story. I don't remember when the first scene happens that shows it. 

[How far in advance of planning to play a game do you buy it?]

3 hours ago, The Blackangel said:

Last Of Us, The

You have the game and never played it? Freeze it right there. The world is on hold. Life can wait. The universe awaits you to play the game. God told me he will rain down emeralds if you play the game. If you don't, he agreed to puppetize you and put your hands on strings. 

[The Witcher 3's storyline is too long according to devs]

I just finished the main story and since I enjoyed it, I have to say it wasn't too long. It was a beautiful journey and highly recommend it to others who really need to give it another try. One of the best games. I still have the DLC to play and a bunch of quests. 

[Your favourite Final Fantasy version?]

FFX is really good. That was my first turn based game. I got all the way to somewhere around the final boss fight, but then went back throughout the land to build up and get stuff I missed so I never fought the fight. This coward will have his day! ahhh hahaha. ahhhh hahaha. I will have my day!!! 🤡

[There might not be a Last of Us 3]

6 hours ago, skyfire said:

Not true. There are places in the world where work from home is not even possible because not every industry can work from home and people who work in software do have to go out eventually to. bunkers and staying home with supplies doesn't last long. I know many people who came out after 1 st wave but got infected badly in 2nd. 

Bunkers? I think I did spot some clickers out on the prairie. You are right supplies don't last long. Especially when you mummify your hand in toilet paper. But, with all due respect, if they had bunkers in India they sure as hell would use it. 

But if they wanted to make a part 3, I hope they do take their time and go for a 3rd Game of The Year award. That would be legendary for the series instead of chasing money and release a not so good game just to keep pace with a tv show if they are planning multiple seasons. 

[There might not be a Last of Us 3]

6 hours ago, Empire said:

If it will make them far good amount of sales and money they will do it 🙂 

I agree on that. When the show comes out they will have a better idea whether or not to make a part 3. But their trend is to release games on the last year of consoles before a new one comes out. 

[Where do you stand politically?]

29 minutes ago, Reality vs Adventure said:

I’m not too clear how you believe trans are getting more attention or taking away at all from the lesbian community. But I think it’s in your best interests to work together because only the oppressors benefit in your division and when the system as a whole is fixed, then those inner community conflicts will be relieved. I read the link and am still confused. 

Another thing I want to add as far as gay and lesbian bars go, is in the Houston area there are a ton of clubs for gays and lesbians. There is a whole district that everyone in Houston knows about called Montrose that has all kinds of clubs and bars for them. Things do change though due to financial reasons in cities. Downtown Houston used to be loaded with clubs lined up and down several streets back in the day. Now there are only a few as the clubbing area shifted to the shopping district outside of downtown. Then that also changed and now it is scattered throughout. But one thing has always stayed in the same place, Midtown Montrose with all the gay and lesbian bars. So that assumption that the lesbian bars are disappearing seems non relevant to Houston. Houston is a liberal city, but in an even larger red state. 

[Where do you stand politically?]

On 5/2/2021 at 12:45 AM, Jaicee said:

Okay so to respond to some of the implied critiques of opinions I stated in the OP that people have made:

You hate trans people!

I make no claim to know all there is to know about gender identity and it's definitely possible there's simply key knowledge I don't have as yet. To this end, I try to keep an open mind and reserve the right to change my opinion. However, I will say that I actually used to be a lot more supportive of transgenderism than I am today. My current opinion of the gender identity movement has been largely informed by the fact that I've walked through the gender transition experience with a woman who eventually de-transitioned, i.e. reverted back to identifying with her biological sex. She was a friend of mine and I supporter all three of her transitions each step of the way: from identifying as female to non-binary to male and back to female again. As much is more than can be said of her transgender, now-former friends. She found that her experience was unhelpful and psychologically costly in the long run. She wound up turning to gender critical feminism in the end, and so did I along with her. We're still good friends to this day.

I've come to view gender as an industry. It's a concept that has been popularized in recent decades for the purpose of replacing the more objective, material notion of biological sex with subjective constructs that have to be bought. Medicalization of the subject (preferably in childhood at that) is curiously vital to de-pathologizing trans identities and this I find disturbing. If becoming and remaining your natural self requires you (or your parents, as the case may be) to pay for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even sex reassignment surgeries sometimes...well that just doesn't strike me as realistically a very natural at all. Likewise, I find it similarly curious and disturbing that gender identity practically only exists among lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. I'm primarily concerned for the mental-emotional well-being of trans-identified people.

The way it strikes me is that gender identity is an industry capitalizing on the insecurities that mostly gay and lesbian and bisexual people have and co-opting our language to engineer social movements of their own that create demand for their products. When gay and lesbian people successfully got the psychiatric community de-pathologize sexual orientation, the demand was for it to be DE-medicalized. And I've noticed that the ascendancy of the gender identity movement into the cultural mainstream over the course of recent decades (but especially this last one) in this country has overlapped with the disappearance of lesbian cultural life. As Katie Herzog has aptly pointed out, there is a direct relationship between those two things. As the lesbian bars and night clubs and other lesbian-specific and lesbian-identified cultural spaces (including the annual Michigan Womyn's Music Festival I used to enjoy attending before trans activists got it cancelled in 2015) have vanished, more and more young lesbians and bisexual girls and young women have begun "coming out" as queer and non-binary and transmen instead, whatever any of that even means. That sense of cultural identity as lesbians existed for a reason. It was important. It needed to be there. Without it, I wouldn't have had the courage to come out as lesbian myself. I can only imagine what young lesbians today must go through in the absence of any kind of autonomous cultural identity or exclusive safe spaces of their own. Now there is something else more fashionable, and more profitable for a whole new industry, for young lesbians to come out as instead.

What I find even more disturbing though is the now-commonplace insistence that trans-identified people and biological women cannot and should not both enjoy basic rights, such as rights to safety, privacy, fair play, and freedom of speech and assembly. Rather, compromising the rights of women seems to be a goal of central importance to the gender identity movement despite the real-world examples of countries that already have state policies establishing separate, specialized shelters for women and trans people and likewise separate and specialized prisons for women and trans-identified inmates, for instance, such as to prevent transwomen from facing harassment and violence in men's prisons, but without compromising the safety of women by transferring convicted "not male" rapists to women's prisons. Why cannot such model policy simply be replicated here? Why is there a need to erase all sex-based rights here, and for girls and women in particular?

You're a communist! Why do you back the old Soviet Union?!

The word I used to describe my preferred form of socialist reorganization was actually communalist. I feel that this note is important to make because I don't at all consider myself a Marxist or a proponent of Soviet style "socialism". I'm absolutely against police states and all-powerful bureaucracies. Personally, I don't even see the old Soviet system as authentically socialist at all. These systems involved much state ownership to be sure, but the key thing to recognize is that the state itself was private property (in this case of a particular political party) in the same way that feudal systems privatize the state by bringing it under the exclusive ownership of a landed gentry or particular family or religious institution, for example. Social ownership and control -- including of the government -- is a crucial and defining component-part of socialism in my book. Political democracy, to the extent that it actually brings the public itself into control of the policies and machinations of the government, is, put in economic terms, public ownership and management of the state. Thus are democracy and socialism absolutely inseparable things in my view of it. There is no such thing as legitimate socialism that doesn't revolve around a democratic decision-making process. There exist democratic socialists and there exist fake socialists. That is all.

You own firearms. You support gun violence!

Not at all! I own hunting rifles for survival, so I can eat. I live in a very small town near a wooded area. Most people here live near or below the poverty line and hunger is a common problem. Speaking for myself, it's often been the case that charity came up short or my food stamps ran out or that I just got tired of relying on handouts and found it demeaning, frankly. It's commonplace for people here to hunt for food in the woods. I do so when the sorts of things I've just described happen to me. Without that option, I would definitely wind up going without meals more often. It's simply not practical or reasonable to ask people around here to jettison such options. It just isn't.

I also own hand guns for my own peace of mind because I've been in life-threatening situations before where one might've come in handy --  not even as a killing device necessarily, but just as an instrument of intimidation that could potentially get one out of a deadly scenario. I'm sorry but pepper spray just doesn't have the same impact. I have a license and have been around firearms my whole life. I know best practices. Maybe my hand guns keep me safer and maybe they don't, but what they do give me regardless is a heightened peace of mind. Now I understand that as much cannot be said of everyone. Not everyone knows or engages in best practices and there are unfortunately loopholes in our legal codes that often allow criminals and others who simply shouldn't have access to these sorts of deadly weapons to acquire them. I am in favor of closing those loopholes and for improving background checks for gun purchases in general.

As to like assault rifles, I don't own or need those and nobody else needs them either. Those are weapons of war solely useful for killing large numbers of people, as in mass shootings. I am fine with straight-up banning the future sale of these weapons. That position is one of extreme controversy in my community where these sorts of weapons are often used as part of the local cultural life for entertainment purposes (like blowing shit to kingdom come for the hell of doing so; something that simply feels gratifying to do) and because some people here can be paranoid and some really do think that there might need to be another civil war in this country at some point that they'd like to be prepared for. I'm not of that mindset. These weapons have simply cost far too many innocent people their lives for entertainment value and irrational fear of urban dwellers to justify their legality, in my view.

I think it's best not to assume that people who live differently than you are dangerous or less rational because they do so or that they generally stake out political positions in bad faith.

I’m not too clear how you believe trans are getting more attention or taking away at all from the lesbian community. But I think it’s in your best interests to work together because only the oppressors benefit in your division and when the system as a whole is fixed, then those inner community conflicts will be relieved. I read the link and am still confused. 

[Best story in a video game ever?]

11 hours ago, The Blackangel said:

As someone who has to deal with the issues Senua faces, I connected with this game on more levels than just her mental issues. I initially heard about it from your brother @Shagger and got very emotional. Since getting it, I have had to stop many times to cry. But it's more than worth it.

I really should go back and give that game a try again. I never finished cause I got caught up in other games and the puzzles made me lose excitement. I did like the fighting a lot. Maybe I'll cheat the puzzles so I can progress. I do not function well with puzzles. My patience is broken. I start getting shaky leg syndrome and go boinkers. 

[Do you prefer happy or sad endings?]

I think sometimes a game throws in a dramatic event for an affect, but doesn't really fit into the game. I think what that does is desensitize us to games that are meant to be dramatic. So in order to keep drama strong, we need a balance of happy ending games too and vice versa. 

[100 Days of Biden: My Coveted Thoughts]

Biden is quickly finding out that this country has to move ahead and bipartisanship no longer exists. I am very concerned about the voting rights bill that needs to be passed. As republicans quickly pushed voter suppression on day 1; we should have countered within the 100 days. But that would require getting rid of the filibuster since there is no other way it will pass requiring 10 republican votes, who as we know are a party no longer supporting democracy. That is the one thing that will protect democracy for years to come and it is completely partisan as republicans have another thing in mind passing bills across the country to make voting harder and all the while claiming fraud while they recount ballots in Arizona without independent witnesses. And this is something we will see happen in every state where democrats won. Nothing really matters if voting isn't protected. But that didn’t happen the first 100 days, so maybe in the next 1200 days? 

Everything else is just a return to normalcy. Normal is good. Biden is doing the right thing. As far as immigration, I don’t know why it’s so hard to build an international refugee camp paid by an international effort to provide shelter, food, and medicine. Have a program to help them move into a country and have a skill program to fit into the workforce. This is a humanitarian crisis and needs to be treated as such. And there should be more women than men operating it cause dirty men will rape all the girls. White supremacists will flock to the area hoping to rape and abuse vulnerable people. Cause that is who they are.

I’m glad Biden mentioned white supremacy as the greatest terrorism threat to this country. But he should have extended on it and give us assurance that he will utilize every resource possible to combat domestic terrorism and give us some kind of plan or bill on what he wants to do. Because just calling it out isn’t enough. Fear is the only vocabulary terrorists know. Take action. Make them feel extreme fear. That is the only language they understand. They love authoritarianism so let’s show authority against their operations. Crack down on extremism in the military. Any extremists needs immediate discharge and there needs a campaign to boost the confidence in reporting behavior of soldiers as well as the ranks and to be protected for doing so. Same with the police force. These are things I really want to see happen. We know there is a problem, give direct solutions and I have to criticize that I haven’t seen any strong movement there. This is the last chance for these things so Biden better jump on it, dive in, belly flop, I don’t give a fuck. Tear down the terrorists. Otherwise, you might as well recruit ISIS into the military and let them carry guns to capital buildings since terrorism is not a serious threat. (sarcasm).

He has tackled the Covid problem which is good. You can’t do much about the mentally challenged people that deny the threat of the virus and work against community safety. I just hope we can throw their bodies in a pile one day and burn them directly to hell.

Besides the normalcy of policy issues, my main issues I wanted to see more of was measures to fight terrorism, voting protection; police reform; and the cleaning of extremism in military and all government positions. You can’t clean those voted in, but you can clean those appointed. There has been some progress in that area, but show me bills how to prevent the politicizing of government positions. Show me bills where a president can no longer fire or appoint so many government positions. That was ridiculous what trump was legally able to do. No sitting president should be able to appoint the head of FBI and other positions like that and the attorney general needs to be unpoliticized also. The positions needs a general vote if needed. That was scary to see Barr (previous AG) fall in step with trump. There needs more checks and balances. Those are bills I wanted to see the first 100 days.

I am grateful to have a president who is working for the interest of the people and country. But if nothing is fixed about the things I just mentioned, then pucker up with the wettest lips, and kiss democracy goodbye.

* Protect voting

* Weed out extremism is military, police, and gov. positions

* Attack domestic terrorism

* Tackle covid

Those should be all our main concerns since it directly affects the country as a whole. 

 

 

 

 

[Is turkey bacon evil?]

The only way turkey bacon is evil is if it starts walking off the plate

[Is turkey bacon evil?]

5 minutes ago, The Blackangel said:

As far as bacon goes, GIVE ME PORK. If it's some other kind of meat sliced as bacon someone is getting a fork in the throat.

You wouldn't know the difference if it's in your egg Mcmuffin

[Is turkey bacon evil?]

That gives a new meaning to Easter. Wait....???

[What gaming franchise do you hope lasts forever?]

Assassins's Creed---"spin spin suga; spin spin suga" You know you are tempted to agree. 😍

[Best story in a video game ever?]

FFX had a great story. It was unique. 

[Is turkey bacon evil?]

Aww, I barely see the muffins. LOL. I don't name the chickens cause most look alike. I guess you can name them if you get a variety of colors or breeds. I mostly have Buff Orpington (orange) and Wyandotte (black and white speckled and black and gold speckled). It is a big expense at first to get chickens because of the coop. Eggs are cheap to buy so it takes a while to earn back the money spent, if ever. But at least you know in troubling times that you will have daily supply of food that is healthy. And if you have a rooster you have a chance to get babies to carry on your stock as long as you wish. But it will suck to get more than one rooster as they are some mean sons of b*****!!!

I have to watch my sodium intake too. Poofy eyes is definitely motivation to steer clear of the salt!

[Is turkey bacon evil?]

Looks good to me. Regular bacon is high in fat, and sodium. My eyes get puffy after eating regular bacon cause the sodium. Those eggs look good. I have a bunch of chickens and they produce a daily supply of eggs. They are the greatest animal in the world. Or bird. Or whatever. They will save your life in a crisis. But one thing to consider is that is straight up a high protein meal. Where are the carbs?