I just (finally!) got myself a new gaming PC recently, so I’ve moved from TF|2 on PS4 to PC and I am loving it. I wish EA hadn’t released this right alongside BF1 because it deserved its own moment.

PUBG is kind of cool, but it’s wearing thin for me. Winning is exhilarating, but getting there is often a whole lot of collecting gear you’ll barely use, in between stints of holding SHIFT+W for several minutes at a time. Just running to get or stay ahead of the blue line of death.

That was exactly the Aphex album I had in mind!

This is absolutely my favorite shooter of the past several years (I mean the series, including the first one, despite its lack of a campaign). The titans are such a great evolution of the FPS genre, and the movement and gunplay in general are unsurpassed, imo.

I don’t think it’s superstition at all. When I was in school and had a lot of reading to do for classes, I listened to a ton of Autechre and Aphex Twin—fast paced, high energy electronic music, although both those artists have the occasional slower, more ambient tracks.

Yeah. But they couldn’t be forced to open their phones.

I may be wrong about this, but it was my understanding that a PIN or password qualifies as the kind of information that a court can’t compel you to disclose if you invoke your fifth amendment rights—while any kind of biometric lock is more like a key, and you can be compelled by a court to provide your fingerprint or…

I’ve had PS+ for years, and there’s a ton of games on my PS3 that I got for free that I still haven’t managed to play.

I really like seeing JC3 in the PS+ games because to me it signals a return to the PS3 days, now that there is a bigger library of PS4 games, they’re finally able to offer bigger, AAA titles for free.

Considering all the games that have had pretty rocky launches for their online components, I’d say betas are still both marketing stunts, and also time to test things out.

Titanfall 2, PUBG, Overwatch, maybe some Tekken 7..

My Pynchon avatar is better.

I did some googling for just the right picture to use to suggest that you save your money and cut out the middle man. This is sort of close to what I was hoping to find.

So.. it’s borrowing from Star Fox?

If your store has a bulk foods section, they might have bulk spices, too. Those are much cheaper than the glass bottles full of spices you find in the spice section.

Thanks to your link, I now know there’s a Ricky Jay documentary on Amazon Instant Video, too.

Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women

Google Fiber is actually way ahead of the established players in the market. They’ve had a tough road, with telecoms trying to block Fiber’s expansion through legislation, and other dirty tricks.

Yeah, that’s ridiculous, the Overwatch League one isn’t even anywhere near the colors. If the MLB didn’t see fit to engage in a trademark dispute with any of the organizations in that image, I’d say they have no right to go after Overwatch or its league for their Tracer silhouette logo.