There is a huge space between “spending 3 million dollars on a house” and “living as an itinerant beggar.”

I don’t understand what the ostensible critics would even want him to do, spend his money renting property to the enrichment of landlords? Give up material possessions to become an itinerant beggar?

Do you think Warner Brothers or Disney is? Or hell, even Fox Searchlight or Focus Features at the end of the day?

So Matthias was picking tracks he did not already have the top record in and practising until he was good enough to get the top record in those tracks (in the open) and Burbank was picking tracks he did not already have the top record in and practising until he was good enough to get the top record in those tracks (in…

It’s cool that devs and players can both enjoy some of the immediate benefits of early access—more funding and capital up front when needed, player input on direction, getting quality entertainment from the game before it’s out.

running games at 800p. Docking the Steam Deck to a 1080p TV or higher-resolution monitor would require more power and if the dock isn’t going to provide that it’s very likely in that scenario that some higher-end games could suffer performance issues.

There are theories that perhaps it was randomly generated somehow, taking into account popular TikTok trends and formats. Then again, some believe there’s a genius out there who crafted the clip that, while confusing, clearly has everyone talking. Mission accomplished.

Probably that by copying the designs and products they won't be beholden to an international supply chain that wields sanctions and embargoes like a cudgel. 

Absolutely fallacious argument on Red China's part, they just want to ban games to make kids more productive because it’s all about the almighty dollar when you’re an atheist authoritarian nation.

Always a Colonist tho, never an Earther 

I did a full Paragon Adept and full Renegade Soldier the first go round back in 2007-2013 but this time it’s mostly Paragon with some funnier or less racist Renegade thrown in for that ‘edge’.

“If there are no profits, there’s no company. All of our legal actions are protecting our profits, which benefits employees because they get to keep being employed!*” -Corporate executive logic that’s been with the company four months and makes nothing.

the fact that she does not appear in the film to defend herself—nor do any of the other interviewees defend her—results in a biased indulgence in the sexist trope of the femme fatale

No lie I’ve watched all of the seasons of Community almost yearly since like 2015, often without meaning to start doing so. It was also a reliable comfort when I was very isolated and heavily drinking for a long period. Even if the movie doesn’t get made I’m still happy with what we got.

but was he right about what the grenades did

Holy shit Wildermyth is addicting, right out of the gate these random ass motherfuckers are lovable, and procedurally generated? I’m sure there’s a limit where I’ll have seen a lot of the interactions but it fits together so organically, the universe wasn’t wrong.

The Steam Deck seems more geared toward “hardcore” gaming folks who’ve already purchased a library of games on Valve’s platform. It seems unlikely that someone would purchase the Deck on its own without an existing Steam account. It is, in other words, an additive piece of equipment—and a luxury one at that, given…

My buddy with an 11 year old account was hit with the “your account is too new to make a purchase” error. I got hit with “you’ve tried to make too many purchases” which froze me from completing the transaction when servers resumed functioning but since it stayed in my cart I managed to reserve a preorder for the 256…

All four of the games mentioned there are played on console, and the vast majority of console players are not running ethernet to their systems.