Have you actually seen the stuff they put up in the Wall Street Journal though? It’s a blatantly dishonest cut and paste job, and it’s more reminiscent of the kind of reporting you’d see from Kent Brockman on The Simpsons than real journalism. WSJ absolutely deserves to be called out on that shit.

Whoever wins the fight.

How about we just don’t do genocide then? Is it an inevitability that if people are allowed to talk about genocide, that we will necessarily start a genocide? Is genocide really so appealing that even speaking about it is dangerous and must be stopped at all costs?

The bar for accurate analogies is pretty low around here so I think I’m doing OK. The wolfenstein mod is idiotic because within the context of the scenario, it doesn’t matter whether any of the sprites are Nazis are not. It would be equally ethical to kill them if they were just random dudes who imprisoned you and…

More accurate take on this would be a mod for Grand Theft Auto, where every time you kill *anyone,* a window pops up and asks “Do you consider that person a Nazi?” and if you click “yes” then you don’t get any stars added to your Wanted level.

Right. They don’t need the money but they want the money, preferably *before* they have made or shipped the product. It’s a preorder masquerading as “hey everybody let’s all chip in and make this great thing happen!” If you fund this you’re a chump. Obsidian is smart to build their business around the gullibility of…

Yup it’s stupid and an abuse of the system. Let’s use crowdfunding for projects that actually need help. This is just a metastasized extension of preorder culture.

I know you guys have all been waiting to hear my thoughts on this matter and I’m really really really really sorry to have taken so long. It looks like Blizzard is making the right choice here. It’s clear that they never originally intended the Mei character to be seen as fat (I mean seriously look at her neck), but…

Without the tweet he was replying to, this is all a giant nothing. We have no idea what he was refusing to do or what argument he was refuting here. We’re arguing with ghosts. Oh well that’s what passes for discourse I guess.

Perfect Dark on the N64 had the best difficulty tweaking options I’ve ever seen. You could change player and enemy damage, accuracy, awareness, etc; in all kinds of ways. I’d love to see more developers embrace this kind of thing and the Dishonored update seems like a step in the right direction.

Yeah don’t get me wrong - it plays *just fine* with a pad so if that’s what you’re comfortable with and you have no desire to ever play it with a flightstick, then the PS4 version is probably the way to go.

Your experience is valid and I don’t disagree, except in the case of helping factions gain control of a system. You can totally do that and it’s become one of the main activities for a lot of player groups.

Just about every unrealistic thing in this game has a pretty good “handwavium” explanation to it. If you look around the interiors of the ships, you’ll notice that they all have big speaker systems built into them.

Just about every unrealistic thing in this game has a pretty good “handwavium” explanation to it. If you look around the interiors of the ships, you’ll notice that they all have big speaker systems built into them.

It’s not *that* complicated. It’s not like a full-on flight sim. It’s just that things can go south really fast if you don’t know how to do everything. Accidentally fire your gun near a station? Dead. Don’t quite know how to land on the landing pad? Dead. Fly too close to the sun and can’t figure out how to get your…

T Flight Hotas X is a good stick/throttle combo and you should be able to find it for $50 or less. T16000M is an even better (standalone) stick and you can get it for $50 or less. I’m sure there are others but these are the ones I have direct experience with.

You might be surprised at how well optimized and scalable the graphics settings are. I’m on a macbook from 2011 and it runs fine on medium settings.

I went out to the Aries Dark Sector last night and I was more afraid of running into humans than the aliens.

It’s like NMS but “realistic” - which is to say space is mostly empty, the simply logistics of getting from point A->B can get you killed, and every planet you land on is going to be a lifeless rock. In the entire time the game has been around, life on other planets has been found in only a couple places, and it was…

There’s no end to the game. No winning. The only “goal” of the game is to reach the rank of “Elite” in the areas of combat, exploration, and trade; but even these are optional and there’s not much of a payoff for doing so.