That Bruce Willis game that was in a bunch of magazines in the 90s. Looked it up, Apocalypse. Never played it but remember a celeb being in a game being a big deal.

1. Portal
2. Team Fortress 2
3. Rogue Galaxy
4. Peggle

After being delayed again in October, it looks like this thing is FINALLY coming out. Although, the email they sent out seemed to be encouraging people to delay their delivery so as not to miss it over the holidays, which is kind of weird. Assuming mine arrives when they say it will, I will try to post some observations.

@dipset It's so crazy. Top of the group, 6 games left and only one against the US and none against Mexico. Being a Vancouver sports fan, it's hard not to think they will fuck it all up but this team is actually legit. I don't think they'll be needing a coin toss to get through this time.

I guess I like the rush of the pre-order craze because I had zero interest in getting either but then jumped into the pre-orders day of and managed to get one of each. The Xbox I sold to a friend before it had even arrived. The PS5 another friend wanted and then changed his mind so I kept it.

I'm not sure if anything has changed but I remember the UI felt super barebones and beta to me. I was pretty disappointed with the launch lineup but was fortunately in the middle of Borderlands 3 so got to play the PS5 version of that a lot. Save transfers didn't work properly and it stopped tracking my progress. I didn't see any games that interested me so that was when I decided to sell it. While I would say the price isn't justified, once I went back to Borderlands on PS4, I really saw the difference. The load times and frame rate on PS5 are insane. I have barely played Borderlands since. Still doesn't justify the PS5 price to me but super impressive stuff.

@dipset Please don't tell me they are looking at taking Tom Wilson.

I think players will quickly get an idea of how little competition they are facing and adjust accordingly. It's probably in China's best interest to go down 2 early so Canada/USA cool off a bit and don't throw any huge hits to build momentum. Even so, I think going into a game against China, other teams won't be super interested in playing physically simply due to the risk of hurting themselves.

Now, that all goes out the window if they take Tom Wilson.

@dipset There are so many things to laugh at here. China trying to Arab prince a team (with the minor caveat that all players must be nationals) in 7 years. This team having to go up against the two biggest, baddest teams in international hockey, on the biggest stage, on home ice. Brandon Yip still playing hockey.

And I feel zero guilt laughing at this. These are grown-ups who play hockey so it's not like it's Squid Game or something, they know what they're signing up for. Plus imagine what it'll be like to see McDavid skating against these guys.

@yoshi I don't know why people are saying these are hard. I did them all first try with the joycons in the off hands. Seriously though, if I miss the down input to charge shinespark on the last part of one of these again...I will probably yell "why can't I use the D-pad to move?!" again.

Of note, Eternal Sonata has 2-player coop so you can assign different characters to each player. Played through it with my wife years ago and it was great fun.

Eternal Sonata is really good. The combat and visuals are great. But oh my GOD the talking. It never ends.