I’m all for “innocent until proven guilty,” which is why I take issue with officers breaking into a private residence with guns drawn and ready to fire.

Someone on Twitter really said it best: Something ain’t right when there’s more consequences for wearing a t-shirt than there is for actually killing a person. This is as far from a political issue as it gets—it’s a moral one.

Amen. Isn’t there a pretty big intersection between those who choose to remain silent on this issue and those who support “law and order”? Makes zero sense. Almost as if “law and order” is an empty platitude to preserve the status quo and the conveniences it affords them (like not having to think about right vs. wrong)…

The thing is, calling for justice for her is not political. Since when has wanting murders to be arrested political? These things are labeled as such by people who don’t care to or want to talk about or face such things. So saying it’s political is a convenient way to avoid it. Racism and police brutality aren’t…

You gotta love when the company that built German aircraft, tanks, and submarines is able to grow with the times and have the correct take. 

I think you’re missing the point Riley.

Thanks. I was actually in the beta. I do plan on picking this up, but not for a couple of months.

While you’re at it, his concept of the economy of flight sims is off, too. Flight sims have had payware planes, scenery, weather, jetways, etc. since forever, and the nice thing about FS2020 is a lot of that stuff is just plain included in the base package. We don’t need a weather addon because the weather is already…

It’s less about the inclusion, or lack thereof, of a mine in a flying game. It’s about the fact that any thoughts about the game itself are lost in a mire of pseudo-intellectual babble about cloud gaming in general and the possible future of games as a service.

Amazing how deep dives into MS and its “intentions” on a game review seemingly always creep in but these same games journalists fawn over everything Japanese hyper-capitalists do like anti-consumer Nintendo just did with a bogus limited timed release on a physical/digital game of a lazy upscale.

The author even LIES…

Not only, the freeware add-on community is still alive and kicking. They’re releasing several every day.

Also, the simulator community has always been a den of commercialized mods. Microsoft has monetized nothing that people weren’t already monetizing on their own. Passionate players were not making content for free - they were selling it, and frequently forming decent-sized companies to do so.

As someone wise once said, “Oh, SNAP!” It tells you a lot that this fellow didn't think to check whether his conclusion was accurate. He just went straight to his non-Microsoft word processing software and typed out this rambling consideration of life, the universe, and the tragedy of having to pay extra for the…

I would argue there wasn’t even 15% of a review... when he wasn’t talking mine, he was philosophizing and complaining about cloud streaming, microtransactions, and game economies... From reading this does a reader know what the game offers as far as challenges, number of planes, challenges beyond free flight, training…

Wait, this was reviewing a game? I thought it was a TravelAdvisor post on some mine. 

Ouch. And if Will removes the Grasberg Mine thread which spun off into all of these other topics, that would leave only 15% of the review which was devoted to reviewing the game itself.

I read half of this review and I still don’t know if the software is any good.

Oh wow. This is quite the screw-up. They gonna leave this review up? The entire tone and substance of the review is predicated on a falsehood. Seems like the author had an angle and went for it. Didn’t see the mine on first attempt and was all to happy run with it.

Dear Will, if you took a second to try and review the *game* Microsoft Flight Simulator instead of the concept of cloud and games as a service, maybe you would have done the tutorial, which would have taught you to fly VFR (which incidentally is the only form of navigation actually included in the tutorial).

Brad: “Screw the rich”