Evan Lahti

@elahti

Strategic Director @pcgamer.com • FPS, card games, journalism • My name anagrams to Leviathan for some reason evan@pcgamer.com

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Evan Lahti@elahti· Jul 12

Just started watching Pluribus and this scene gave me such high school group project overachiever PTSD flashbacks

Scene from Pluribus E2 where characters are meeting at a table inside Air Force One, main character expressing exasperation

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jul 10

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jul 6

Key line here in Xbox's dismal layoffs announcement. Gaming has been in an age of parity for years and years, but this is one of the first formal acknowledgements from a publisher—the biggest game orgs compete with individual game creators like Zeekerss or lemorion_1224 in the attention economy.

"We now find ourselves competing not only with the largest publishers, but also with smaller independent studios," writes Xbox

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jul 4

Got this great Frank Gorshin sketch from @stevelieberart.bsky.social. Thanks Steve!

Black and white postcard illustration of The Riddler from Batman ‘66, with bowler hat

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jul 2

Drives me insane that Apple Podcasts does not instantly download podcasts when new episodes are published when you’re on wifi. What’s the point of something being automated if you have to manually check that it triggered?

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jun 29

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jun 23

Sorry, the account is called XCOM food?

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jun 13

Also in this run: Nightmaring Adrenaline to draw 3 copies of it, ho ho ho, I am positively full of norepinephrine (and persistent block)

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jun 13

Look Knight Gang, if you can't handle a being stabbed with 19 little knives that are paradoxically big enough to hit you all simultaneously and the occasional letter opener, maybe you don't belong in the NBA

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jun 10

The same image Andy posted but with the Mass Effect dialogue wheel overlaid

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jun 10

Weird win in Slay the Spire 2. Only fought 2 elites, done in 33 minutes. 🤷 Beat Aeonglass w/ shiv emphasis but none of the 3-attack triggered relics, which is not ideal Glam on Up My Sleeve gave me 8 shivs on first play and reduced its cost to 0. Fresnel Lens helped a lot, Knife Trap finisher 🔪

Run summary page from my run, showing just 12 relics, 33 cards, low HP on win

Up My Sleeve card with Glam enchantment, which gives it replay 1. Add 4 shivs to your hand, reduce cost by 1 when played

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jun 4

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jun 3

You rang?

Evan Lahti@elahti· Jun 3

Marsh, are these guys being transmuted into minnows? Because if so, tip top job

Evan Lahti@elahti· May 22

Woodpeckers going absolutely ham on the sweetgum, got my tree looking like an Excel file

More woodpecker pokes arranged in a strangely tight grid, implying a methodical approach to bugfinding usually reserved for wrens

Approximately 20 centimeter-diameter holes in tree bark, closeup

Evan Lahti@elahti· May 19

So feral were '90s game magazine ads that even the humble Sega Saturn Net Link was marketing a 28.8 kbit modem as Giga-9/11

'90s two-page game magazine featuring Sega Saturn Netlink, on the left a rustic lakeside cabin; on the right page a mushroom cloud over Manhattan. This would have certainly have been published pre-9/11.

Some of the copy reads: "Why should the military have all the fun, now you can blow people away from across the country ... Remember, someone, somewhere, wants to take you out. Get them first." 😬

Evan Lahti@elahti· May 10

Enemy I Feel Most Guilty About Demolishing: Axebot Most Annoying Fight: Myte Least Interesting Enemies: Twig & Leaf Slimes Best Boss: The Insatiable

Evan Lahti@elahti· May 10

Favorite Silent card: Serpent Form Favorite Regent card: Kingly Kick Favorite Ironclad card: Stampede Favorite Necro card: Bone Shards Favorite Defect card: Echo Form Favorite Colorless: Jackpot

Evan Lahti@elahti· May 10

Best Meme: Miniature Tent is transparently good Best Fan Art: The pregnant Regent doodle

Evan Lahti@elahti· May 10

Best Ancient: Pael, aka "What if Clayface was a Dragon?" Relic Most Likely to Save Your Run: Diamond Diadem Favorite Build: 0-cost cards on Defect + Feral + Unceasing Top + All for One payoff

Evan Lahti@elahti· May 10

Favorite Character: Silent Best Mechanic: Osty block retention/separate damage source Least Favorite Mechanic: Doom Best Elite: Flail/Magi/Spectral Knight Best Common: Glitterstream Best Uncommon: The Bomb Best Rare: Unmovable Best Relic: Sturdy Clamp

Evan Lahti@elahti· May 10

Got through all 50 Ascensions in Slay the Spire 2 this past week. Let's hand out some awards 🏆

Evan Lahti@elahti· May 10

It's a morel! False morels look so weird and brainy that I'm surprised they're considered that.

Evan Lahti@elahti· May 8

Q: Do you get *songs* stuck in your head, though? With lyrics or without lyrics? Also on this scale where you at?

Evan Lahti@elahti· Apr 30

It’s a good thing when the gasoline costs An XCOM Amount, right

Cropped screenshot of one of XCOM’s x-tra explosive gas stations with prices around $10

Prices in the Southern California desert today, 9.79 for diesel etc

Evan Lahti@elahti· Apr 23

Finally got through Silent on A10, woof. Keys were Serpent Form (6 dmg/card play) and the clay relic buddy that doubles your first block card every 2 turns for defense. Shiv build with Ornamental Fan and Letter Opener as well so I was getting icing block/damage when I dropped a bunch of shivs.