the xbox as a brand really does feel like it’s dying.

i guess i could’ve gone further into this, but the curves are designed so that it can be placed vertically or horizontally without ever lying completely flush against any surface—this allows for as much heat to dissipate from it as possible—even to the point of being a bit overkill. so even if you stack book on it…

the current gen really started with the PSVR2 and GT7's VR mode.  

i think it’s designed for maximum longevity. all of those curves, the verticality of it and the general size of the thing, are perfectly engineered to minimize overheating.

this is what happens when a console maker focuses on supporting their product and expanding its ecosystem. VR2 for instance, may not be selling earthshattering numbers, but i think it would be a mistake to overlook the impression that it makes to gamers—that sony is in the business of caring for the interests of…

Consider one thing we know really well: and that’s streaming is perfect for subscription-based entertainment.

steam is inherently better because of its features. it was a social space even before facebook was a thing. 

the cloud has been microsoft’s ambition for more than 15 years. there’s definitely market research on it.

the acquisition of King is the most likely reason for the court’s rationale—king’s mobile games will be the breadwinners for streaming. 

i wonder how you will feel once microsoft finally closes the subscription loopholes on gamepass and corners you into paying actual market value for their subscription?

because it was wholly up to the folks at twitter to decide who met their particular standards for notable culture figures. 

it’s not a reach at all and i’m sorry that you think so. a simple look at the salaries of anyone working in silicon valley or the bay area would shock you. i’m not sure why you would think that social media companies would be more ethical than the government, especially when what we’re talking about are a bunch of 20…

i’m canadian, dumbass. my *wife* is canadian. i’m also a leftist. but i’m not about to paint the early years of twitter’s blue check program as some kind of utopia in order to create a narrative. it wasn’t good then, and isn’t good now.

i remember back when twitter started getting really hot, about ten years ago—my friends in the fashion and film industries literally sent champagne to twitter’s hq in order to get verified. it was never, ever, an objective system of user verification. 

it’s a weird cultural artifact. the gameplay in 5 is, in fact, quite solid, but it’s so full of global war on terror-style tropes and the kind of cartoonish anti-black racism that could, at this point, only originate from an asian monoculture, that it’s inescapably difficult to recommend.

I feel like this disappointing result was almost assured the moment that Nintendo decided to work with Illumination Studios. Illumination has always made the most safe, boring, sleep-inducing animated films. 

i’m not sure i’m going to depend on a site who’s whole modus operandi is to say things are bullshit to be accurate about what is, at the end of the day, just one of many systems of measure—a useful tool. but all tools are understood to have limited applications, when used by actual scientists. 

your understanding of aristocracy is too aesthetic, i think. if you think the professors of hogwarts, for instance, aren’t all extremely wealthy, regardless of their personal/political values, you’re mistaken.

abolishing slytherin seems like a very slytherin thing to do...

i notice when they’re not included (in, say, my old ps4 games), and that’s always disappointing. we get used to it, but it is indeed a valuable aspect of ps5 gaming. i’d say the fact that it has so cleanly integrated into the experience speaks to the validity of its inclusion. if haptics or trigger tension were more…