EricUmbarger
Eric Umbarger
EricUmbarger

Here’s to piracy. It’s really the only reason why video games from the 80s & 90s are still available to play. Want to play that arcade game you spent way too many quarters on back in the day? Piracy lets you do that. Want to play a beloved Atari or Sega Master System game? Piracy lets you do that. The companies that

not unlike the film industry before the move to digital. Half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever, because it wasnt seen as an important thing to preserve until film became respected as an art form and not a sideshow distraction.

Hoping gaming starts preserving

Kids should not be drinking any kind of energy drink either way, not sure why would someone give one to their children...

Accepted the check.

Oh a new Diablo class? Nea...oh it’s for Immortal, who could possibly give a shit

I’m just impressed that you can keep them all separate in your mind. To me, they are just kind of a supercut of Tom Cruise running and doing stunts.

have yet to meet anyone that likes motion blur yet they still keep on making it default on

And Macron leans even harder into authoritarianism.

It is fascinating to me that we in the west somehow seem to think authoritarianism only exists in those other countries. As if time and time again we don’t see that when the people want real change, all of these governments will be as authoritarian as it needs to quell that desire and to maintain its power

What we need now, more than ever, is a good, solid gaze back on history. None of this unrest and discontent is NEW. It is old, very old. In the past people were handicapped by the lack of speed in the news. As a species we were more compartmentalized, with some places hearing about events a few years prior for the

Trying to quell the rioting French public is historically, a poor decision:

Maybe try de-militarizing the police, instead.

If you learned how to read entire articles and not just headlines, you’d see it’s “valued” at that because a store put out a bounty offering that much to whoever found it. Remains to be see if they follow through, I know another one that offered 1 million confirmed with the finder they’re ready to buy if he wants to

Google makes enough money selling my data so they don’t deserve to get money from me directly. All the youtubers I watch have merch stores or pateron, so I support them directly that way. If they did this, it would hurt the youtubers because I’d stop watching and buying their stuff. 

I would rather stop viewing YouTube entirely than allow ads. Advertising, in every form, is intrusive and unwanted.

Judging by Steam hardware surveys, that’s not true at all. The majority of PC gamers use Intel and Nvidia hardware. AMD-sponsored games tend to be disadvantageous to both Intel and Nvidia users, which means AMD-sponsorship is a negative for most PC gamers.

I doubt it. Most PC gamers don't have the latest GPUs, which means they are relying on upscaling tech to get 60 FPS or higher. That seems to be the main reason (aside from not owning an Xbox) to play on PC instead of console, so I suspect many of us will be interested.

Temperature increased to -32C, not -78C. Just FYI

Maybe I slept through too much of my Civics class, but I thought the President / Governor was the head of the Executive branch.....and the Executive branch was in charge of ENFORCING the laws.

It’s a slow-paced artsy walking simulator centered around a rather heavy-handed social message.