“I like MGS1/2/3” actually does have an effect on the game.

The older Picross games are under $10 apiece. Nintendo will make out like bandits under this model :)

Great game, well worth the $7 and more. Bought at launch with no regrets.

The base edition will be $35 at Walmart.

The base edition will be $35 at Walmart.

Uh, you think Microsoft is paying off game developers to not add Linux support? I can tell you straight-up that this is not happening. Linux has tons of distros, which makes it extremely difficult to support well. If you support it badly, you have customer support costs and your studio gets a bad reputation. Plus,…

This is actually terrible advice:

I have three kids. Audio-only monitors are much, much cheaper and are just as useful 99% of the time. (Plus, they are not an interesting target for creepers in the same way a video feed would be.) We stuck with those and it was fine.

I have three kids. Audio-only monitors are much, much cheaper and are just as useful 99% of the time. (Plus, they…

Just did this mission the other evening; didn’t think to use this trick. If you sneak into the heart of the base, there’s a comms station with a grenade sitting next to it. All you need to do is pick up the grenade, drop it back on the ground, and run the heck out of Dodge. The satellite dishes don’t need to be…

If the game worked fine for you, and you want to, y’know, keep the game and play it some more, don’t return it.

“PC versions of popular games should not be pawned off on development partners and released when they seem good enough.”

Having a PC hooked up to the TV is super cool for gaming, but for all my TV/movie watching? Nah, I like having a dedicated tiny streaming box.

You must be joking... Gimp doesn’t have 1/10th of the filters.

You must be joking... Gimp doesn’t have 1/10th of the filters.

There’s a market. For instance, if you run a blog, you might want to clean up/retouch/color-correct your photos. I’m intrigued by the anti-judder filter they just introduced and the content-aware eraser. I bought Pixelmator but it’s weak on the filtering aspect.

There’s a market. For instance, if you run a blog, you might want to clean up/retouch/color-correct your photos. I’m…

Generalize much? I don't pirate anything but I Adblock. I tried to resist it but the ads these days are so obnoxious they basically forced my hand.

I played it post-patch on PS4 and it was worth going through the story missions. Most of the biggest complaints are resolved—I never felt any pressure to spend money or experienced any bad glitches, other than NPCs clipping into furniture oddly. I found I enjoyed the game a lot more when I switched to French…

I played it post-patch on PS4 and it was worth going through the story missions. Most of the biggest complaints are…

Lots and lots and lots of shareware games did this back in the day. When you opened the game, if you hadn’t bought it and entered the code, there was a “register now” screen and a 10-second or 20-second countdown timer.

You might get dropouts, like I did.

You might get dropouts, like I did.

Be advised that AV500 is an older standard for HomePlug. It’s not bad, but it’s a little bit like buying first-gen 802.11n wi-fi gear today. There’s a reason it’s on super sale.

Be advised that AV500 is an older standard for HomePlug. It’s not bad, but it’s a little bit like buying first-gen…

Don’t feel too bad. I played through it when it was new and logged like 70 hours into it. It was a good game but that’s a lot of time to sink into a game. I don’t think I could play a retro 3D game for 70 hours today either, especially one that has modern sequels that you could play instead and get a similar…

I am unfamiliar with them as well, but the website is loading over here.