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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 13h

PSA: Gears of War E-Day is out *today.* Anybody with $100 can buy it and play it. It is simply not accurate to say it won't be released until October 6 - that's just the day it's available for $70, without a bunch of extra stuff bundled in. So very tired of this BS.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 13h

It's fair to say that the disc hasn't been released yet, but the game itself absolutely has.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 23h

Missed that one! Does seem like it needs more than an optional note.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When people expect a 10, a 7 (which means GOOD) might as well be this.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is for sure striking what a lot of “Christians” believe.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My one thing is that **SPOILERS** If Sinister can absorb mutants’ powers from their blood, why doesn’t he have a healing factor?

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I thought Wolverine’s story was a dang good reinterpretation of those characters and that timeline. Way better than most. Well done. The combat was a tad repetitive but simple enough for an old and slow gamer like myself to understand and pretty spectacular.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sounds like a bifocal situation. A Benjamin Franklin invention! My son and my mom both wear them.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Those are AR goggles and he’s taking pictures of another dog’s butt to sniff later.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If that's all you want them to do then there's almost no reason to do so! The speakers are better, sure, but the originals were no slouches (not an audiophile but I had no complaints and I've been told they're respectable).

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For like a year I've been really annoyed that my Echo Studio randomly stops playing music, and Alexa couldn't tell me why. Turned out that it was interpreting vibrations from its own bass as a physical tap, which by default is a play/pause command. Turned that off and it works. Bravo, Amazon!

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's probably quite a bit less than that when it comes to people who were mad enough to even bitch about it. The YouTube video only has 18K downvotes. Probably 0.1% are the real nutters.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh, I think I've been thoroughly vindicated on that one. After it came out, there were more people mad at me for scoring it too high than too low.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In keeping with the theme of helping him with his math homework, I posed it to him thusly: If 2,700,000 people watch your review on YouTube, and 1% of them are unhinged morons who do not understand how opinions work, how many people are mad at you for not liking a game enough/liking it too much?

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, it took until he hit 5th grade, but today one of my son's friends said they'd seen a YouTube video about how I'd written a bad review. It seems to have been one of the frothy-mouthed lunatics who rushed to dunk on my Starfield review before they got to play it themselves. LOL.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It is. Also I can directly transfer from my main PC, where I have plenty of storage.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm excited about it! I feel like I'm in a rare situation where it's almost a no-brainer purchase, since I have a big Steam library and a wife and kids who like to play but don't want to mess with my PC.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That one's probably in the least demand but also likely has the least supply, so... maybe? I already bought the controller and I have a PC with a bunch of storage that I can locally transfer from so I figured I'd go with the base model.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Finally getting close! And I haven't yet talked myself out of it - even though yesterday Minecraft Dungeons 2 failed to launch on Steam Deck because apparently it just does not work on Linux for unknown reasons.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I did break down and pay for The Verge a while back and I don't regret it.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ah, compensating people for using their work and effectively republishing it? What a novel experiment!

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was not expecting this when I went to take out the trash this morning.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was not expecting this when I went to take out the trash this morning.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It would have been *nuts* to set this game in this time period and not do it.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Probably should’ve put Half-Life on there huh.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That’s…not really what this list is about. Admittedly the template shouldn’t have put that in such small print.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Probably forgetting something obvious.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They had it in guides for years before they finally ported it over to the articles CMS. I was jumping up and down mad that they couldn't just do the same thing for us.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's way too subtle, but it does work! www.ign.com/articles/mon...

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Star Wars Zero Company review guidelines said you weren't allowed to say that Revenge of the Sith happens and you fight Storm Troopers. It was like saying you aren't allowed to reveal that the Titanic sinks.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's in-line and not as elegant as I'd have liked, but it does work. But it's one of those things that's in the CMS that (despite my best efforts) people didn't even know was there.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I demo'd it in morning meetings at least twice! ...I tuned many of those out too.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I nagged for about a decade to get the ability to do spoiler tags in articles so you have to click to reveal the spoilers. By the time they finally added it, writers were too conditioned to avoid spoilers of any kind and they barely used it.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Angrier about feeding children than they are about bombing a school full of kids in Iran. Pretty much sums it up.

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That your opinions remain unpopular sounds like a skill issue.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is your problem with Stat Wars?

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean, I understand it. Those Reddit articles are getting traffic, so we should do that. It’s robotic chasing whatever numbers are left. The real death knell is the “This Christopher Nolan Movie Killed Three Hookers” headlines.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To be clear I am against developers and everyone else getting laid off. That’s bad. But apparently other people will get jobs at this new Activision studio working on new Halo. That’s good. Most gamers should not have to worry about this stuff at all.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just.. Who cares? You don’t have a team with a strong track record. What does it matter whether the next Halo is made by 343 or Halo Studios or the new team Activision is building? Make a good game first and ask me to worry about it later.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There would be nothing wrong with another movie about Skywalkers had you not completely fucked up the post-RotJ story. I thought Rise of Skywalker would be about rebranding Jedi as Skywalkers but no, it was some epic bullshit instead of creating a path for the future for the series.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It was all a dream” is the only path forward.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Played some co-op Halo with my 11-year-old son and he only attacked and killed me seven or eight times. It was a magical gaming experience.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You broke up with someone over their pie crust not being good enough? This just raises the stakes.

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Dan Stapleton @danstapleton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My kids would make sure I never tasted them.

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