You have to remember though that YMMV. I sell stuff all the time on Mercari and eBay and have to be able to print labels whenever I want.
I have a really old Pantum laser printer and I just bought a cheap off brand cartridge for it and it works great.

You get that this is an article about HP getting sued, right? The other companies aren’t the ones getting sued.

The problem is that they need to acknowledge that it has a new name, but Musk is so goddamn stupid that he renamed it the letter commonly used to denote a placeholder name. It’s kinda necessary so people don’t see “X” and think Kotaku just forgot to write in the actual name.

Why would I ask some half-baked AI to do it for me, only to have to waste time double-checking the AI’s work afterwards?

Me, last Friday: “I need a Python code that takes a WAV file and splits it into multiple MP3 songs so that I can have all the songs we recorded in yesterday’s rehearsal separated and ready to send as email attachments”

The argument has always ostensibly been the “Crypto” angle.

AI is an useful technology.

I miss the blockchain and NFTs. Not because I liked them, but because it was endlessly amusing watching people INSIST that it was super special magical technology that would change the world, and then never be able to give an actual use case for them. I think the closest they ever got were for recording transactions…

I could never see the appeal of GTA. I don’t understand why I would want to play a game so I could hurt imaginary people- I like the sorts of games where I get to help imaginary people and they appreciate it. But I sort of got on board with Saint’s Row by playing the series in reverse order (Gat Out of Hell then SR4,…

What that really means is that you don’t enjoy the game’s mechanics. I’m not a fan of Souls’ slow movement and defensive combat. I like high mobility and aggressive combat. That’s why I liked Sekiro so much, even though it was much harder than any of the Souls games. Yeah, I died way more often but I was fine with the…

So the big thing I notice here, which is not a big surprise because they’ve always been a very (very) vocal community, is the ‘I don’t have time for talking and plot and testing various things to see how they work because they get in the way of my shooting/axing people in the face.’

Used to agree on the Souls games (and it’s style of difficult), but after just sitting down, absent the bandwagon, I really don’t think they are as difficult as most people make them out to be. There is so much misinformation about these games too that the reputation is enough to dissuade people from even trying.

The MGS complaints sincerely come off as just really boring people. Completely po-faced stealth action games are a dime a dozen. Ask someone to describe the plot of ANY Syphon Filter game to you, they’ll shrug and say “Spy... stuff?” if not “what games are you talking about?” MGS is silly and interesting and has…

oh my god, grow up

That’s not what you’re supposed to do though. The game does not want you to bounce your head off a wall or “git gud”, it wants you to go somewhere else, get stronger, get better items, and come back when you feel more ready to handle the obstacle. There is no enemy in the game that requires fast reflexes or high…

Couldn’t the same be said about FF16 where you’re just button mashing the attack button waiting for your “Eikon Abilities” that do the most impact on the giant HP pool of mobs. The chaining of combos or abilities doesn’t do anything like multiply the damage and even using the “Magic” button for a magic burst barely…

That’s kind of what I’m getting at in my comment above. The vibe I get from friends who love Elden Ring is that the frustration is very much part of the appeal because of how it increases their satisfaction when they finally do beat it. And that’s totally valid, it’s just not something I’m personally interested in…

The framing of this article is about what people dislike, but I honestly read this as a feel good piece. I just love that there’s so much diversity in gaming in terms of game types. People are complaining about game types they don’t understand, this just means there’s different types of people out there who have…

Excuse me but Squall is insufferably annoying and we love him for it.

The huge uptick in slideshow “articles” over the last month has gotten way outta control.