The original what? Castle Wolfenstein? Wolfenstein 3D? Return to Castle Wolfenstein? lol

Yes, The New Order, The Old Blood, and The New Colossus are truly magnificent games. Super cinematic, brutal games with great FPS mechanics. Before DOOM 2016 came out I thought they were the best rendition of a modern version of DOOM.

It’s a big plus if you like the simulated feeling of killing nazis, because these games let you do it in the most satisfying ways.

That thumbnail photo just reminded me. I need to play Wolfenstein: The New Colossus again

I think it adds to the presentation personally

If I exercise my free speech in the woods with no one around to hear it, is it free speech?

Insomniac is clearly great at developing what they set out to do, but I think what they set out to do here appears (to me, in my opinion) relatively uninspired. Wolverine would be a fun character to play in heavy, slow-paced 1-on-1 (or 1-on-a few) combat, but the trailer makes it seem like they’re sort of porting over combat mechanics from Spider-man, which in turn is just ported over from the Arkham games.

I think Spider-man is a better-suited character for the Arkham-style combat than even Batman was because of the ridiculous, cartoonish acrobatics that fit Spider-man’s characterization, and not so much Batman’s supposedly grounded and gritty persona.

I’m not trying to say I think this game won’t be good, I’m sure it’ll be more than competent and definitely fun, but my hunch is that it won’t outshine Spider-man.

Again, I’m just judging from that trailer, and the trailer was clearly one of the higher-octane scripted sequences from the game, but I really cannot get a sense of the kind of weight Logan is supposed to have. Like is he really fast, is he heavy (like, because of his entire skeleton being coated in metal, and the way the camera shakes when he hits the ground), is he acrobatic, is he old and stiff?

I dunno. I hope it does well, being one of the few single-player games with a console manufacturer funding it, but I’m definitely not looking to buy a PS5 for it.

Yeah you make a good point. I hate all of it

Wow what a bummer that trains, buses, bikes, electric scooters, and every other mode of rapid, inexpensive transportation has been un-invented. Those would have been really useful literally every moment since they were first invented. If we had those we could treat driving like it was the most dangerous thing people do every day, which it is.

My point is that driving is essential only because the people in power have unilaterally decided that it must be, and fuck them for that.

Driving is not a right. WAY too many people are allowed to drive. What’s worse is that WAY too many people have no option BUT to drive

Guess that means they’re remaking it in a few years

I’m looking forward to the Supreme Court ruling that a sitting Supreme Court member has “operational immunity” and effectively ruling that anyone on the Supreme Court can break the law as much as they want until their fucking life sentence term is up

Yeah you’re right, the main goal of science and the math we use for science is to model the universe. That model is completely subjective. The more we learn about the universe, the more the model changes. The way we learn is limited by our 5 senses and our mental models for the immediate universe around us.

That model is something of a language itself, and if a language is subjectively limited then I don’t think it can be universal

I think it’s funny to think of mathematics as a universal language because all of formal logic is built on the assumption that binary truth values are grounded in reality, but I believe that has yet to be proven. All of human communication functions based on an assumed shared context.

If I say I have an apple, and you say you have an apple, humans would say that together we have two apples but in reality we each have an estimated collection of matter that shares nothing physically in common with the other. Maybe other intelligent life forms don’t make the same assumptions that we do that lead to the statement that there are two “apples,” and maybe mathematics isn’t universal.

I guess I mean to say that formal logic and mathematics are not grounded in reality, but are grounded in the way that a human brain perceives reality.

“Fully modular” reads to me as “1 step away from returning to the terminal-mainframe” business model.