John Walker's discussions

rebotherer
John Walker
rebotherer
Seeker of indie secrets, needlessly beautiful, purveyor of www.buried-treasure.org.

Oh my goodness, the conspiratorial webs you weave! No, the mistake was made because I’m an idiot. I mixed up these Mightiest Mark Pokemon with the legendaries. I’ve fixed it now. Read more

Well, yes, I say exactly the same in the article. BUT, they look so cute and daft! Read more

$10 every four weeks for a scattering of in-game rewards? $130 a year perhaps seems an awful lot of money for a card game on my phone. Read more

It’s such an odd suggestion. Yup, a comment buried deep in an article is designed to get those hits from, um, all the people who already read down that far. Read more

Firstly, it was a miserable mess of being dragged by the nostrils through its godawful story, with almost no actual tomb raiding, incessant hateful cutscenes, and almost no puzzles. Then there was the shitty rape scene opener, the racist characterisations, and the absolute betrayal of Lara as a character by having her Read more

I was being silly! You’re quite right - both were December games. Read more

I’m not interested in your lies and propaganda. Read more

Exactly this. There are a lot of replies here saying (perfectly correctly), “But if you X and Y, then Z wouldn’t happen,” and I think, “But hang on, this is a kids’ game.” Read more

I finally got the herb drop after 9029018923 raids, and then immediately got another one the following raid. Wonderful. Read more

Weirdly, the ONLY Pokemon my 8yo can reliably beat, with any of his lvl 100 monsters, is Charizard! Not that he can catch more than one. Read more

Yes, this seems an...anomaly. I’ve “only” had it completely CTD twice before reaching the ending, so I can see how complete crashes might be avoidable. But no, everyone’s got the same game where if you’re stood on a hill, the camera chops reality in half. And indeed the game where Pokemon wander through rocks and Read more

The only non-awesome thing I said about it is that it’s SSD is too small. Read more

Ooooorrrrrrrr, and bear with me here, someone who openly wrote about his hypocrisy as being entrenched in capitalism and willing to use its worst excesses, while also recognising that it’s terrible? Read more