I say this every time but I’ve lost access to far more physical media than digital media over the years. 

That seems like a lot of wasted effort and storage for stuff you could just download off the internet if you ever needed a digital copy. Backups are important for personal files but I realised years ago that maintaining a digital collection of movies and TV just wasn’t worth the effort anymore. And even less…

I'd wager good money that it has far less to do with disdain towards the arts and far more to do with profit margins. Money is always the prime motivator when it comes to corporations. People ascribe all sorts of evil master plans to corporations but the reality is money is really all they care about. 

At one point yes. It isn’t really fun anymore. I tried to go back to OW2. I really did. But the game I enjoyed just doesn’t actually seem to be in there anymore beyond a superficial level. That there isn’t great alternatives isn’t really a good excuse for me to keep playing it.

There are too many people who just take chasing savings way too far and don’t really know when to walk away when all the hoops they’d have to jump through just don’t become worth it anymore. Or they’re unwittingly spending more money just to “save” money. That major inconveniences are not a good price to pay for…

I used to love Naughty Dog but their last great project was Uncharted 4 (well their last great big project, Lost Legacy was great but was essentially extended DLC in terms of the amount of content) and they’ve been downhill since. TLoU2 was solid in terms of gameplay but the writing talent (which was one of their…

There hasn’t been any official confirmation of that though. It’s still just rumours.

Not going to tempt me to play that disaster of a story again that’s for sure. Gameplay was the best part of the game though so No Return might be worth a punt. I’d still rather see the return of Factions though.

That’s definitely an overstatement. It’s a great game and one that I have a lot of hours in and I came in from a background of playing both TCGs and Roguelikes/lites so it was definitely my cup of tea. So much so that I bought it again on Switch to play on my honeymoon. But I wouldn’t put it close to being one of the…

Now you’re just being pathetically pedantic. And back to claiming it isn’t useful like a moron. It’s fine not to like AI, especially given the economic consequences of its commercial adoption, but pretending that it has no practical uses is just embarrassing because it makes you look thick as pig shit.

I mean the article made it pretty clear that the way in which it was broken was entirely behind the scenes. You can have code that’s a broken mess and is impossible to maintain or refine but results in software that runs absolutely fine.

Well it’s also a Valve game, and they’re well known for hating the number 3.

It’s easy to forget that Valve is privately owned sometimes when so many of the big names in gaming are publicly traded and so have to maintain at least some level of transparency through what they communicate to shareholders.

Are you suggesting that’s a good thing?

If you don’t understand its uses then sorry but you’re a fucking idiot. The problem with NFTs and crypto bullshit is no one could adequately explain what it was good for and it was extremely difficult to imagine use cases where it presented any tangible advantage over existing solutions.

Completely different ballgame. People wouldn’t be shitting themselves if AI was the same worthless garbage that the majority of crypto is. It’s legitimately useful and disruptive and that’s why people are scared of it. Overreactions in some cases (I think some of the “dangers” are overblown, at least with where the…

It’s something food marketing has been doing for years. Ascribing some vague health benefits to a product makes people feel less guilty about eating it. And the sheer amount of people that want to eat healthy but also want to avoid making any real sacrifices or changes to their diet makes for a huge market. So they…

Reason is more important than time. And a generational bump is a fine reason to issue an upgrade. If it’s a small bump and/or is close to the consoles launch I think it should be free for owners of the game, if it’s a while later and/or it’s got some extra content then a small paid upgrade is fine.

I think this undersells the PS3 too much. Sony started rallying before the PS4 came out. The PS3 had a truly awful start but they really turned it around and it wasn’t just the result of “fanboys”. And it’s weird to mention stuff like TLOU coming out on the PS3 but not the first three Uncharted games, despite 4 being…

No return might actually get me to play it. I'm certainly not going back for the story.