Cryptic used the FF14 technique in City of Heroes and Champions Online. Being superhero games with flight and superjumping skills, they had to design more carefully for vertical movement than most MMOs. Fall damage scaled with altitude on a rather generous scale, but even from a map’s ceiling, you’d lose ~95% of your…

Slab, did you— did you just jump off the Buzzard’s Nest? God damn you make me proud!

Normally, the upgrade process copies your %userprofile% folder under windows.old, too. Apparently, 1809's upgrade process checks if users have active OneDrive logins attached to their accounts, and assumes that everything is mapped to OneDrive if they do and writes an empty folder structure to…

The best of the 2nd-gen LH cars was the Chrysler 300M. Tightening up the proportions to keep it under 5 metres seems to be the secret sauce that let it age better than the Intrepid, Concorde, and LHS.

Randy Pitchford is probably glad that this doesn’t try to rationalize the release schedule and story timeline of the Borderlands games:

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a Prequel to Red Dead Redemption, which itself was a Spritual Successor to Red Dead Revolver. I think this means they’re only slightly more closely related than Lonestar and Dark Helmet in Spaceballs.

Can’t wait to buy this new car used five years from now. [BMW | Audi | Infiniti] drivers are jagoffs. Jalopnik are Tesla [fanboys | haters]. Looks like a [Hyundai | Kia | five-year-old Accord Coupe]. Mini ain’t mini.

[fills in “rant against free-standing infotainment screens” on Jalopnik bingo card]

Haven’t we already discussed this?

Doc Ock’s origin story has enough freedom to make a much better slow burn of it, as Insomniac did here. Connors lost his arm years ago. He devoted himself to the study of limb regeneration. One day, he tries a serum based on lizard DNA and becomes a human-lizard hybrid. Boom. You’re done. That origin story tells…

Oh, you sweet summer child, you really don’t get the cause and effect, do you?

Oh, here we go with the “Don’t count another man’s money” takes. Search that phrase and “lodestar” right now, and see which gets more hits.

Hey, why don’t you try fucking off work for the most critical day of your work year, and see how happy your colleagues are.

Definitely Lauren. Contrarian Yinzer Media shitheels don’t give as much of a damn about Pittsburgh sports front offices as her. She’s already grossly overestimated the relative size of the Pittsburgh market to make the Pirates look like the Dollar Bill Wirtz-era Blackhawks, and phrased it in the most condescending New…

Get an Audi, Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai, etc, and eventually you will be paying a thousand dollars to replace a freestanding screen that you hit with your computer bag when you were throwing the bag into your car.

I’m somewhat astonished that Buick’s marketing department is making an actual effort to promote the Regal TourX. The brand campaign in general is annoying, self-sabotaging trash, but at least the wagon is getting its own time in the spotlight. But I’m positive that the “We don’t have a TourX on the lot. How about this…

Whoever produced that side-by-side video chose poorly when selecting a deinterlacing algorithm for the 480i SD source. That could produce both the fuzzy image quality and the significant juddering on those vertical camera pans.

Because the plant where they were built, Michigan Assembly, has already been retooled for the Ranger and Bronco.

If the fly ball is the first out of the inning, that’s a more reasonable risk. In the worst case, he’s doubled off, the tying run is at the plate instead of scoring position, but you still have at-bats left. On two outs, from 2nd base, discretion is the better part of valor.

On the one hand, I’m fond of bold horizontal/longitudinal statements in the side profile of a car.