James

Wrestling is real. People are fake.

[James @headmon217]

@TheNathanNS This is pretty much just scare tactics. They cannot prevent you from modding a game, lol. The only thing they can sort of stop is someone marketing a mod, especially for profit. But it is literally legal to modify single player offline games, 'policies' cannot change that.

[James @headmon217]

@TimSweeneyEpic Isn't this the guy who raised prices on Fortnite stuff and justified it basically saying "we need the money". Then laid off a bunch of people.

Billionaire company, btw.

[James @headmon217]

@StefanPlaysBro @nattytackett @PBATour @PatMcAfeeShow Well, tbf, that persons tweet said 'current' #1 bowler in the world. Considering EJ Tackett has won 3 straight player of the year awards, i'd say that is a pretty good argument for being the 'current' #1 bowler in the world.

[James @headmon217]

@arneezy619 *Buys successful gaming studio*

*Has them work on completely different types of games than what made them successful*

*Closes studio soon after*

Classic gaming industry move these days.

[James @headmon217]

@Pure_PS @SquareEnix I've been saying this for years and before every state of play we get. It's not even asking much tbh, but even though they made 3 games it's like they hate this series, lol.

Also, I love how people's immediate replies are "but, PC or Xbox" completely missing the point. Classic.

[James @headmon217]

Feels like 90% of Twitch streamers these days...

[Elia @luscielia]

When you watch someone play one of your favorite video games and they don’t take it seriously at all and barely pay any attention to the story

[Katsuhiro Harada @Harada_TEKKEN]

LOL hahaha. Of course.

Here’s the reality: video game nerds like us spent our weekend nights inside games.
When we were young, after school or work, we weren’t just “playing” ..we were living in arcades, battling for high scores, dissecting strategies. Every year brought new massive cabinets and motion-based machines, and that raw excitement was irreplaceable.

Unlike the normies, gamers like us were grinding gold and coins long before crypto and digital wallets became trendy buzzwords.

Back in the early internet days of the 1990s, farming items, gold, and platinum in Diablo, Ultima Online, and EverQuest was busier than our actual day jobs.

And the first moment the world truly connected through online games? That was unreal.
On Ultima Online’s official launch day, players were introducing themselves by country, saying things like:
“My grandfather and yours fought in WWII — and now we’re playing together. How insane is that?”

That was the first time the world genuinely felt connected. The virtual world outshined real nightlife districts by a mile.

This was the narrowband era. Servers were fragile, and just putting an image on your homepage could get you treated like a criminal. Early Ultima Online? One step could take minutes. No exaggeration.

We weren’t using undersea fiber from Japan to North America. Japanese players literally signed contracts with American AT&T providers and dialed by phone line all the way to Lake Superior servers. The lag was borderline unbelievable but no problem at all because fun.

Going out to real-world parties? Not even remotely an option.

When EverQuest hit its peak, anyone who invited you out on a Friday or Saturday night was friendship-ending. If you had time for nightlife, you clearly weren’t camping rare named spawns.

Why go drinking when you could go dragon hunting?
And yes.... the excitement was bladder-bursting level. We literally couldn’t leave to use the bathroom.

Then PC performance went insane. Overclocking, benchmarking, higher resolutions.. nonstop.
Then came story-driven shooter campaigns like Medal of Honor and Call of Duty, plus multiplayer games that simply never ended once you started.

At some point, our lives even turned into nightly virtual bank robberies.

Gamers were absurdly busy. There was zero time for old men’s social gatherings, elite banquets, or brain-dead club parties.
The truth? Video games completely surpassed real-world entertainment.

When my wife first came to my place, she was horrified and asked:
“Why is there an arcade table cabinet in your living room? Does it cost 100 yen per play?”
“Why is the next room filled with towers of empty boxes, CDs, and DVDs?”
“Why are there so many screens and PCs ,,,, are you trading stocks?”
“Why are hoses filled with green liquid running from all these PCs to giant metal towers on the balcony?”
“Why are arcade controllers everywhere?”
“Why are PC parts literally covering the walls?”

Because at night I was being a blacksmith, a cute elf, a soldier, a bank robber, and a world saver —
then going to work to make games, talking games, “researching” games by playing them, rushing home, and staying busy landing headshots.

How long do you think it took before that finally made sense to her?

I’ve lived a life that was insanely busy! and incredibly fulfilling.

I’m proud. I’ve experienced every kind of place, moment, and community in the game world... and traveled the real world too, talking about games with people everywhere.
It’s been an overwhelmingly fun life.

There was no time wasted in decay. Every second was converted into XP, coins, or skills.

And yes,,, even within the same game industry, there are plenty of people who have never written a line of code, drawn a single pixel, composed a bar of music, or written a line of specs.... yet somehow stay busy burning entertainment budgets with outsourcing vendors and license holders.

They still love saying “when we made this game,” dropping the word "made", while bragging about nightlife war stories like that’s an achievement.

For the record, those fake “industry guys or producers” (and there are a lot of them) live in a completely different world from us.

[James @headmon217]

Da Bears

[James @headmon217]

It's kind of interesting how many fans of Yakuza 0 had no idea of the banger intro that has actually existed all this time.

[James @headmon217]

I love how these Twitch recaps are just a lot of self reports. 🙃

[James @headmon217]

What a frustrating day. 😞

[James @headmon217]

@InaYuchannel "traveller’s diarrhea"

As someone with ulcerative colitis, I couldn't help but laugh reading that part. 😂 Too real of a worry there, lol.

Hope you get that figured out though and have a wonderful trip.

[James @headmon217]

@arneezy619 Oh gawsh, thinking about this topic gives me borderline PTSD of my current and former tag. 😅

[James @headmon217]

It’s that time again.

[James @headmon217]

@arneezy619 Oh, they'll buy it. And then they'll complain about it. Like always.

[James @headmon217]

That might have been the most uninspiring CoD trailer i've ever seen. Like, I honestly would not have thought that was a CoD game if they didn't put the name in it, I would have just thought it was some new shooter game.

[James @headmon217]

I did a thing.

[James @headmon217]

We meet again.

[James @headmon217]

@arneezy619 Happy Birthday broski

[James @headmon217]

@InaYuchannel We had something...similar, recently in our backyard. It wasn't geese but it was a rabbit who had babies in our backyard and made a hole near our fence to 'house' the babies. Unfortunately a crow at some point noticed and flew down and took one of the babies. So sad to see live.