I was a disappointed when the game ended, because it relied too much on the idea that the ARK is a good thing. I never bought that, I always assumed there’d be some twist coming around the corner. I fully expected that the WAU had transferred itself onto the ARK, for example, and turned it into a nightmare. (It could…

That is pretty ignorant. Every language does this in some way or the other. If you use an anglicized foreign word, you can be quite sure that you are butchering the original pronunciation.

You hated that you couldn’t hack a computer because your hacking skill was too low?

I do get the appeal of automatic levels. I’ve played some in Trackmania, and they’re fun. But once the novelty has worn off, it’s natural that the players also want a game to play. Not a movie. And this is extremely frustrating, because the snowball effect you mention makes the rating system useless. If automatic…

So far, this is the least helpful intervention I’ve ever seen!

Both of these statements are simply wrong...! Both games have a zoom function that tilts the camera and takes you out of the strict isometric view with 30 degrees angles everywhere. And both of them are 3D, so that they actually have a vanishing point (things get smaller in the distance). An isometric view doesn’t…

Diablo III and Civ V aren’t isometric. You can zoom in and change the perspective this way. I don’t feel like that should count.

Sadly, this makes some sort of sense. They seem to be big Pokémon fans, so they are probably active in some online communities. And of course people will brag, troll, flame and bully in those communities, no matter how harmless the hobby is on the surface level. In fact, a person might start to see a divide between…

Well, so much for the week of positivity.

My recommendation: watch it at half speed. You can actually follow the story, and the guy sounds like he’s super drunk, which is hilarious.

You’ve just convinced me with “it’s short”. Because I was interested in this, but I’ve realized lately that I simply don’t have the time for long games (especially if the padding is boring gameplay), so I save my money for games I’m really enthusiastic about. (I didn’t buy The Witcher 3 for this very reason. I’m sure…

You can download the map yourself and get the exact same result. It’s what a PF (“press forward”) map is all about.

There’s no steering involved at all. This is a PF map. You don’t steer in those, you press forward. That’s all you do. You can download the map yourself, press forward and get the exact same result.

Not by the uploader, though. He simply downloaded the map and pressed forward while capturing the clip.

You can download this map, press forward and get the exact same result. That’s the point. There’s no other input from the driver. All the apparent minor turns are due to sloping and momentum.

You shit.

It seems like these people might have been idiots, because this wouldn’t have happened if they had Steam Guard activated, which is the default for Steam and highly recommended. (It means that logging in to your account from a new computer requires authorization via e-mail.)

This might be the case, but I think it’s a side effect. I mean, it seems very much to be a cultural thing, you don’t see this pose in Western pictures (while your explanation would be just as valid there).

She clearly is having fun, but that doesn’t answer the question unless this pose specifically represents “having fun” in some way. (Although I admit that I phrased it badly. I wanted to ask: “Why did she choose this pose here, what is the cultural context behind it?” I didn’t want to sound as if I was being…

Not helpful.