Riley MacLeod's discussions

I am proud to give readers everywhere the opportunity to do this. Read more

Yeah, the emphasis on it never happening before felt weird to me in terms of like, Second Life has been doing this forever, but maybe the fact that it was in Fortnite/the size of the audience? It was still neat, though!
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My twin sister has four kids (all under 12), several of whom have just gotten into games, and I keep trying to get her to let them play with me because it would be a way for us to hang out (I’m in NYC; they’re in Texas), but she/I are equally worried about the strangers they might interact with. Curious to hear the… Read more

ARCTIC SCIENCE!  Read more

Yeah, it’s at the end of the roundup! Read more

My understanding is it’s a separate thing that you select from the menu the way you select other mods—I haven’t seen any mention of Playground being replaced. Read more

It will! Read more

Like every game: that would be great. Read more

I can’t compare it so I don’t know. I don’t think so? Things taste different from each other, though I am really bad at identifying tastes if I don’t already know what they are, and I’m also not great at knowing which spices to use when I cook because I have trouble sort of remembering what they taste like. (People… Read more

Oh my gosh!! The only other person I’ve met who can’t smell was my roommate one summer, who spontaneously lost her sense of smell and taste when she hit puberty (a thing that can happen??). All our leftovers went bad because we forgot whose they were and we had no idea until my mom came to visit and was horrified by… Read more

You are winning the “without using smell words” challenge. Read more

Here are some nice comments from Jean Schulz on this piece: Read more

You can turn off permadeath, which, while it loses something, makes the ‘runs’ a bit less of a thing. It’s a really great game once you start to get the hang of how to not die in ridiculous ways that would make one rage-quit. Read more

I felt the same about Contrast, really--I was really excited for it, and then actually playing it was kind of a let-down, even though the world was so pretty. Alas. Read more

I am indeed most into Skull and Bones, because I love boats. Read more

That was a fun show! Not a ton of surprises, but nice to see how games are coming along! Read more

And it looks like we’ve wrapped up! Read more

This is all looking pretty cool, and I say that as someone who doesn’t play much AC. Read more

This game looks pretty as heck—a lot of bright colors! Read more

Now we’re seeing some gameplay footage. Read more