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Damn, I haven't been reminded of BOFH in a while. Those are due for another read through, along with maybe the Jargon Files too.

If left unattended for any period of time it will immediately begin seeking out the nearest knife

I've heard some folks where it comes out more akin to "dubby"

Yeah that's a fair point and I think I feel similarly, re: getting older and shifting perspectives. Much of my own perspective comes from not having played a ton of shooters in the past few years. The ones I do play, I tend to enjoy shooting at monsters more than people these days, but a lot of the ones I enjoy don't really have a compelling story or campaign to go alongside them. I have in the past reflected on the fact that the overwhelming majority of games I own, play and enjoy are games about violence. It makes you think. But I think that I grew up on a steady diet of fantasy novels of great knights slaying monsters and powerful wizards turning the tides of fate. That culture shaped my personality and as a mild mannered introvert in real life it lets me engage in that hero fantasy without harm to others or myself. I enjoy it and I've come to accept it for being that. If you stop to look at it a overwhelming amount of entertainment in general frequently features violence, and I think it's just baked into our universal human experience. Violence has been a mainstay in human history, and art reflects reality. I don't know how I'm supposed to feel about that. In order to maintain my sanity I choose to accept it as a fact of the human condition and, though maybe not revel in it, I will engage that instinct in a safe manner. The safe manner of my choosing is frequently by firing a big fuck-off gun at some ungodly creature that is threatening to impose its place in the food chain upon me, in some video game.

Good talk, internet stranger. I just wanted more people to enjoy Titanfall, I didn't expect an impromptu therapy session, but I've thoroughly enjoyed this.

Shitposting is a tradition literally as old as the internet

It's older than that, really, but before message boards it was just pranking, so honestly I'm glad for people to have the emotional outlet this way instead

The one I had in mind as the exception to the rule when I posted that was maybe Doom Eternal. I really, really liked that game. But the more I think about it.... Doom isn't really there for the story. John Romero, though no longer at id, is famously quoted as saying that video game stories are akin to the plot of a porno - it's expected to be there, but it isn't expected to be good and it isn't expected to get in the way of the game itself. New Doom takes itself seriously enough to have lore - pretty good lore, in fact, in my opinion! But I wouldn't call it... inspired. It is, truly, just the necessary set dressing required in order to orient oneself to the ripping and the tearing. They put a little more effort into it than old doom did but the overall result pretty much plays out exactly like you expect it to. There's no big twists or turns. There are bad guys, Doomguy arrives to delete the bad guys, and gets a lead on the next bad guys. Rinse repeat until out of funding. And it's fine, it works. Doom is a game more about the moment to moment gameplay anyway.

So, not Doom. What then? Dusk maybe? Dusk was a fucking good game. Doesn't hold a candle to Effect & Cause or The Fold Weapon though, in my opinion. Dusk didn't have characters I could get invested in.

Bioshock is a good contender, but Titanfall is a better game overall imo and therefore takes the W.

The last big ones that come to mind to me personally are Half-Life, like you've said, which is an extremely strong contender for this title, and then Fallout New Vegas (yes I am one of those people but believe me when I say it's a really fucking good game and you should try it)

But even given those challengers TF|2 can sit very comfortably within the top 5 ranking of 'objectively' best single player FPS campaigns. It is an absolute banger of a game and I'm eternally disappointed that the series basically got absorbed into Apex Legends. I'd sell my left nut for a Titanfall 3. In the meantime I'm making do with Armored Core.

Today I learned that laser is an acronym. "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation"

The second one not only has a campaign, it's one of, possibly the single best campaign to be included in a first person shooter, ever. Short, but extremely memorable.

This is almost literally the plot of Elden Ring with minor changes

Ah, yes, my favorite meme. The Jizz Repeater.

Build quality does matter though. Especially for a cable that will be plugged in and out frequently.

That was kind of my point with the gold plated cables though; the ads for them will act like they're better in some way and that you'll get ultra high speed super definition picture or whatever. But it's the same damn spec as the Amazon Basics cable.