It’s possible as well that some pentagon brass were the Commander-in-Chief was itching to use [his] new toy and saw this as a good opportunity.

Nice insight. You, friend, play an impressive amount of games. (Curious: is this the Old Man Light from the middle of O hi O?)

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Not-at-all Scripted, Spontaneous Show About Portly Gearheads Who Espouse No Bigoted Views, Well Maybe One of Them, Tops

USA or BBC America or whomever should take a chance on picking some real fun guys. Jalopnik writers, Ken Block or someone similarly funky, then maybe a mainstream journo or host... gotta be someone among the NYT/LAT/Wash Post/NPR/etc. crowd who has the charisma to glue some personalities together. Put the…

Baleted

Isn’t it funny how these things take steps backwards? Way back on Ye Olde Xboxe, you could play the Wolfenstein game online and it would allow you to change your alias at anytime, even during a match. Say whaaaat??? Yeah, I just happened to be so lucky as to come to PSN late when my XBL/Steam names were already…

Heh, OK.

No, you don’t pull anything back to the PS4—that’s pre-update 4.5 talk right there. Crazy talk.

Let’s take a moment and be real: the whole concept of not being able to play games directly from your external drive but instead swapping them to the onboard drive was silly, like a last-gen concept.

Now you load the…

Yes. It’s a slap in the face to digital consumers. Why certain regional corporations are prone to act haughty and blame their users for their own discontent is a closely-guarded ancient secret.

Maybe they gather the bitterness and sell it as canned tears in vending machines.

Totally true. Most every OS since the beginning of time has had a distinguished name for you with other aliases layered on top of it. I’m pretty damn sure my XBL ID (and my PSN for that matter) correspond to User145588372 or whatever, so changing the display name—I can almost guarantee—is a no-brainer.

I was noting the other day the ridiculously poor quality of PSN usernames compared to XBL when someone said “yeah man, xXyoloSWAGGINSyourMOM420MLGnoSCOPEZXx has never been able to change his name which accounts for at least half of the terrible handles.”

Had it for a few weeks: no, still laggy. Maybe the production release will tweak further. Plus side though: external HDD support is awesome.

I see. You’re likening it to ‘automotive’ while others are taking the ‘automaton’ approach. Crazy how just the title of the game is part of its personality.

I’ll bet someone could write a pretty good book on Japanese fiction titles from the tame Voltron and Robotech, to the odd Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, to the…

Auto-mata sounds like the food of the future. But you get to decide whether a delicious hearty vegetable with many uses or a processed fortified Soylent Green-like wafer.

Where in fact are the strikes/raids, deep leveling system, etc. that made games like Destiny so great? Where is the feel of a milsim that Op Flashpoint/ Arma gave us, minus the hurr-hurr Sergeant Bro vibe?

The Division had very, very little staying power and while I think this is potentially a better game, there’s so…

It wants to be Op Flashpoint? I wanted it to be Op Flashpoint. Straightup somewhat-more-casual milsim with a big place where you can do anything and wage campaigns against an equal foe.

But the bromachismo jingoistic gungho military bullshit, complete with “A Seal, a Ranger, and a Delta walk into a bar” jokes, is…

My fight would be like this: [other people]: It’s pronounced PRIMER, like CLIMBER.

[as opposed to “primer” like “skimmer”]

Yeah, I’m with you there. I’m not good with phonetic approximations of the schwa, etc.

I’m going with “Aw-TOM-o-tah”——am I right? Do I win?

Hmmm, I can hack all cyberpunk-style and then ride a giant boar?

Japanese action RPGs, where have you been all my life?