Chris Person - Aftermath (Page 3)

An In-Depth Examination Of Death Stranding 2's Shower Handles

To play a Hideo Kojima game is to be assaulted by “design” at every moment. Often, this expresses itself in an unparalleled love and commitment to some of the sickest technical design you have ever seen. Intermittently, it feels superfluous and impractical, a bit like a Hypebeast-y affect. Both of t

By Chris Person

/ 1 Jul 2025

The shower handles in Death Stranding 2, which appear to be the same in Death Stranding 1. They are hot and cold switches lab

Lies Of P: Overture Is The Best Parts Of The Game Executed With Confidence

The original Lies of P takes time to find its footing. Overture does not have that problem: those lessons have been learned already, and so when you play it you hit the ground running. This is true not just in how the narrative lays itself out, but also mechanically. Overture adds several new weapon

By Chris Person

/ 24 Jun 2025

SiIvaGunner Is An Elaborate Game Music Joke Collective And One Of The Best Parts Of YouTube

The basic elevator pitch for SiIvaGunner is simple: a YouTube channel that initially seems to upload regular video game music, but is in fact uploading elaborate edits of those songs. Currently, the most popular upload, at roughly nine million views, is titled “Athletic Theme (PAL Version) - Super M

By Chris Person

/ 18 Jun 2025

SiIvagunner, a figure that looks like a statue wearing an eyepatch akin to Venom Snake's in MGSV, with The Joke Explainer Bot

My Lies Of P Save File Is Dead And I Am Full Of Regret

Turns out my save file is tied to Microsoft’s service forever. What’s worse, Lies of P is no longer on Game Pass. So if I just wanted to get my save file using a trial of Game Pass, cancelling it, and transferring the save to Steam, I would need to buy the game first. Even beyond the ethics of suppo

By Chris Person

/ 10 Jun 2025

P in the snow, wearing green sunglasses and a top hat with long hair.

I Need To Know If Sony's Fight Stick Is Good Or Not

Project Defiant seems similar to many of Sony’s hardware outings from the little we know about it. It claims to use the proprietary PlayStation Link format for low wireless latency. The product page says it has toolless swappable gates on the stick, meaning you can have your stick movement as either

By Chris Person

/ 5 Jun 2025

Nightreign is Uneven And Counter-Intuitive. Good.

It is fair to ask, “who is Nightreign for?,” and I’m shocked to report that it’s a game for me. I’m happy that Nightreign is a lumpy but interesting game, because FromSoftware was built on those. The FromSoft that existed before Miyazaki started hitting it out of the park was a lot of fun; that’s a

By Chris Person

/ 4 Jun 2025

Ironeye, the best character in the game, gracefully dropping in during intro that plays at the beginning of the 3 night round

What You Should Know Before Starting Elden Ring Nightreign

Nightreign is condensed and distilled Elden Ring. It even takes place in a smaller version of the Lands Between. But that distillation also makes it faster, denser, and even more challenging. As weird as it is to describe any FromSoftware game this way, Nightreign makes Elden Ring look positively co

By Chris Person

/ 30 May 2025

A character holds the tail of a mystical hawk in Elden Ring Neightreign, while they overlook a condensed version of The Lands

The Most Popular Window Air Conditioner Has Disappeared From Store Shelves [Update]

Not only is it the main pick for the best air conditioner for The Wirecutter, Wired, Tech Gear Lab, and various other publications, but The Wall Street Journal ran a glowing profile about the four years that went into its design.

By Chris Person

/ 21 May 2025

The Hundred Line’s Darumi Amemiya Is Mortifying And I Will Defend Her With My Life

Darumi will frequently name drop her favorite erotic games, forcing your character to play them should you interact with her, often in ways that foreshadow narrative events in the game. It gives me no pleasure to admit that she has frankly fantastic taste in the genre.

By Chris Person

/ 19 May 2025

An anime character with blue hair and the text "Darumi Amemiya" next to her. She has makeup on in the form of fake teeth and

The HÅG Capisco Is A Great Chair For People Who Sit Weird

The HÅG Capisco looks bizarre. Unsurprisingly, it was designed by a Norwegian industrial designer, Peter Opsvik, who also designed several chairs for children, kneeling chairs, and a lounge chair named “Garden” that looks like a tree with a bunch of orbs. I have often described the Capisco as “the a

By Chris Person

/ 13 May 2025

Bring Back Those Long-Ass Game Show Mics

If you are 30 or 40 years old, or a strange younger person who watches old footage of game shows, you probably remember Bob Barker’s long ass microphone. This thin, telescoping rod a few feet long was a staple of game shows from the 70s. They haven’t made that microphone, or really any like it, for

By Chris Person

/ 5 May 2025

Bob Barker on The Price is Right with a long mic.

The ZD-O+ Excellence Is As Close To A Perfect Controller As I’ve Gotten

The ZD-0+ Excellence is a tinkerer’s dream, S-tier in repairability, close to the quality of an Elite for half the price and compatible with already existing parts on the market. It’s Taobao excellence, a potential Forever Controller, the dream of a thousand Reddit posters and Discord lurkers.

By Chris Person

/ 30 Apr 2025

The ZD-O+ Excellence controller in blue on a wood backdrop.