"Above Average" Erik

"Above Average" Erik

@aboveaverageerik.bsky.social

Norwegian, he/him, likes video games, wrestling, Formula 1 1/4th and editor of The Bottom Shelf, a podcast mostly about revisiting older video games (and occasionally other stuff). https://www.youtube.com/@The-Bottom-Shelf

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

It doesn't matter what position I decide to play, in the end I'll just end up with a Stealth Archer build.

IGN@ign.com

EA Sports has announced that it is working on a new open-world football game that the company calls "Project Gridiron," which seems to be separate from Madden and College Football. https://bit.ly/4z63a9U

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graphics beyond the ps4 were a mistake. none of this shit is sustainable anymore. every single Big Game costs one billion dollars to make and has to make 5 billion to be profitable and it also costs $100 nobody has and also needs to have an infinite postgame and also is forgotten in a week

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The "golden age of gaming" isn't one where the vast majority of people who love games can't afford the equipment to play them and where those who make the games get their ideas (and ability to pay rent) stolen from them.

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huttese is a fascinating conlang. it's got extremely like American! phonemes so it sounds like a far future english creole but the sounds are based on what you might randomly find funny in the 1970s so it's sort of like reverse engineering the swedish chef from the muppets. beautiful caveman noises

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AI is conscious AND it is my girlfriend AND it is my slave. A perfect scenario for me, a normal person. Not gonna think too deeply about this. Now do all other living human people deserve the level of investment devoted to my Tamogotchi slave girlfriend? Not so fast.

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redownloaded the epic games launcher yesterday to get some images for an article. when you drag and resize the corners of the window, the whole interface stretches and warps. vibe coding is the future.

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the crazy thing about this trend is how badly this exposes that these people have the same attachment and awareness of video games as scalpers do for pokemon

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maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

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Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse

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Soon the only emulation I'll be able to trust is my raspberry pi that I set up back in like 2013 that Ive been afraid to tinker with in fear of ruining all my settings

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"A report suggests that [studio]'s take on [franchise] will be a reboot of the series - one that possibly explores [main character]'s origins." This feels like all of big mainstream culture now.

Eurogamer@eurogamer.bsky.social

A report suggests that Activision's take on Halo will be a reboot of the series - one that possibly explores Master Chief's origins. https://bit.ly/3TExoRH

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I know this is being done with good intentions so I say it with all love: Dudes, when women are expressing fear and disappointment over a predator who was by all outward appearances safe and kind, that’s not the time to, how should I put this, humble-boast about how *you’re* one of the safe ones. ⬇️

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Replying to @maffewgregg.bsky.social

During the commercial break on AEW Collision, PAC rolls to the outside to let the commentators know what he thinks about Ace Austin's kicks

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Exactly. I am tired of seeing the “I always knew”/“their work was actually bad” takes whenever allegations emerge. Sometimes—often, actually!—bad people find their way into good spaces and make good things. And you’re not better than the folks who were taken advantage of for “always knowing”

Samantha Nye // ציפּיע 🌿@thesamethyst.bsky.social

"I already didn't like him I just couldn't find a reason until n-" Shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up

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Genuinely, this is what bothers me the most, it's fundamentally changed my relationship with art where I'm greeting it initially with skepticism and scrutiny, I never want to feel that way about art.

Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

The feeling of questioning whether or not something is AI as part of its destruction of all visual art

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if there's anything i've learned after 15 years in this goddamn city, it's that finding someone who isn't a scumbag or a liar is harder than finding a thimble, a clock, a hula hoop, an hourglass, a picture frame, a duvet cover, a cookie tin, a claw hammer, a basketball, a toothbr