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Joe Manchin can choke on a dick.

Watch_Dogs Legion Got this on sale and I can see why it hit that. I actually quite liked the first and second Watch_dogs (more so with the latter) but this one I think I can appreciate the legion idea, but it just wasn't hugely fun. There was very little variety to the people - there was only like one or two missions where you'd somewhat need a specific type of Operative, but with the gadgets they all ended up much of a muchness. It also meant since any mission could be done with any operative the dialogue was written as bland and generic as hell. One thing that really grated for me was the amount of gun play in this game about hackers. It's like "cool you snuck into this building, got passed everyone, ran your spider through the mazes, deactivated turrets etc, now twiddle the console so we can move on to the next part of the mission where everyone knows where you are, we're going to throw an army at you, and you're limited in where you can go as you need to be near by to do the hack". So towards the end I mostly used my hitmen operatives since they had actual proper pistols and rifles rather than the weedy tazer pistols most of the others had. Which sure fit into the aesthetic of not being terrible bad guy hacker group - but they're super weak and slow so why would I use them rather than an operative with a auto-rifle? I did like exploring virtual london and seeing some of the sights. Some really weird gore going on though - like I found a flower bed with feet and hands in it. And hidden torture rooms and such. But also some nice things like Bowie mural. Also a hilarious advert for a burger paid for in pounds and weighed in pounds called "The Churchill". Which was funny given everything was in a crypto currency (foreshadowing!!!!). Also kinda neat how London lends itself to a kind of video-game map layout. I don't see us getting a 4th Watch_Dogs game for some time now.

The Gunk A few technical issues aside, I really enjoyed my time with The Gunk. It looks pretty, it has a nice charm to it and it's got an enjoyable enough core mechanic (sucky suck suck) that the 4-5 hours it took to complete breezed by. Won't win any awards, but yeah, not a bad little game this.