The headline is a bit misleading. He is not sentenced to life in hospital prison, he is being held in a hospital indefinitely until he can get treatment and is no longer a danger to himself or others. If he is deemed to no longer be a danger, they will most likely release him to another facility or back into the care…

I feel like this video is supposed to be more of a proof of concept type thing. Yeah, they’re hyping it up, but they’re also pointing out that it’s smoothing away some of the facial expressions and the eyes have loss expressiveness. They’re definitely not saying it’s ready to go.

Steam does do pretty much exactly this with the trading cards and badges. They are literally tiny jpegs you can tie to your account or sell on the marketplace. They are NFT without the blockchain. The difference is that most of those badges cost like 5-20 cents and no one buying them expects them to have any value…

It was a totally different landscape back then. No one was developing games in Poland on that scale, and certainly not with an IP that no one in the west had ever heard of. CDPR also started out as a translation/publishing company, so they had a bit of a financial cushion should the game have failed entirely. When The…

There are directors and devs who I think should be considered auteurs but usually aren’t because they go out of their way to make sure their staff and crew get just as much credit as they do. ‘Auteur’ has become a loaded word, like ‘diva’. It used to just be a visionary artist but now carries the connotations of being…

I reluctantly switched back to Nvidia after avoiding them for years due to past driver issues, and I should honestly have switched back from AMD about two graphics card upgrades ago. Intel can suck it though, I will probably never put another of their processors into my machines. They’re both massive corporations, but…

My niece had an elongated head and had to wear the little youngling helmet too. Her mother and I used to laugh that she looked a little like Sloth from The Goonies, but everything was corrected by the little helmet and she looks like a perfectly normal 6th grader.

Five Guys for an obscene amount of fries and a pretty good size burger, even if you order the “little” option. A couple bucks more expensive than basic fast food, but far better quality.

That’s my take-away from it. It just seems mean for the sake of being mean. It comes off as petty and it shows the author in a far worse light than Sanderson; he’s childish and envious of the success of a writer whose work he considers inferior. It’s embarrassing, and I bet later in his career he’ll wish he had been a…

How dare we not implicitly believe everything a woman says, even if she’s a known liar and abuser herself? I believe sexual assault victims and support every single woman who pushes for her abuser to be investigated and prosecuted. I also believe that every person who is accused deserves to not have their life…

Considering this economy, most adult daughters would be thrilled to get cheap or free rent by staying in mom and dad’s basement. Same with adult sons. 

The quest with Arn is the moment I quit the game and quietly uninstalled it. I wanted to give the developers of the game a chance to see if they could get away from the tarnish of JK Rowling and do the right thing and instead we got this white savior colonialist fantasy. I cannot fathom why they decided to make goblin…

When I was at Universal Studios in Hollywood a few years ago with my nephews, we wanted to ride the big Harry Potter ride. I am not the smallest lady, but I am also not massive. Comfortably plush maybe? We waited in this line for like three hours, and near the front of the line they had a row of seats from the ride. Th…

I think the difference here is that this is a very small game studio and they have been entirely transparent for their reasons behind their decisions. It’s easier to understand why a company with a handful of devs working on a project needs continued funding. Nintendo, on the other hand, is a giant megacorporation who…

I last upgraded my ram in probably 2018-ish, and I have 32GB. It wasn’t even a consideration, as others have said. My PC had two slots, the 16GB sticks weren’t expensive even back then so I bought two. I feel like for most PC gamers, this is a non-issue.

Your copy editors know that a ban is different from a suspension, right? I see these splashy articles all the time “Some rando you’ve heard of said a naughty thing and is banned from Twitch!” only to click and it’s just a dude that got a minor suspension for a couple days for reposting a video. And then he came back…

Shouldn’t this fall under fair use? It’s clearly a parody, and as far as I recall those are still legal.

Remedy played around with the idea in an interesting way with Quantum Break, with the game being one storyline and a live action episode between each game chapter telling a second story. But I think the difference is the “interactive” part, it’s a cohesive story that you play, and not sitting through a twenty-minute…

That’s a fair point. And a narrative-driven game can be a great game, but the gameplay makes or breaks the experience, especially if it’s a mediocre slog between cinematics. The really good games make the cinematics and gameplay feel nearly seamless. I guess the key difference is that those games are well crafted as a…

If that is what you want, then that’s awesome. Consoles are always a fantastic option for people who want a dedicated gaming machine that just works. I like PC because I like customization and modding the crap out of my games. I also enjoy the process of upgrading and tuning my PC, which makes me a little bit of a…