I thought this was a very thoughtful take on this question (especially your points about “up” and “forward” being confounded), but I fundamentally disagree with your “there are no good ways to do this” argument. There are lots of good ways to do this, but they require breaking out of traditional conventions for how…

I do have direct AAA game development experience doing user testing on open world games with three-axis navigational components (not for Ubisoft, though). It *is* really hard to get it right, but it’s not impossible. AC control are really bad, and in my opinion it’s mostly a function of mental model mismatches, not…

What makes this even more mind-blowing to me is that Ubisoft has, hands-down, the largest team of user researchers in the business, and over the last decade has been taking user feedback, usability, and human centered-design far more seriously than just about anybody but Microsoft. They’re not just jumped-up QA…

That was meant to be redundant, right? I mean, at least three of those were clearly the same thing.

Troll.

This actually lines up perfectly with the attitudes I would expect of the kind of people who call up Christian talk shows.

I can’t tell if this is intentionally obtuse or just flame bait. Either way, I’m not going to waste more brainpower trying to decipher it.

Huzzah! Potentially one more reason to loathe that immature woman-beating no-talent loser.

“Sactuary” Hills? Can’t tell if that’s an intentional joke, or just a typo.

This was a really heartfelt review. Despite the push for objectivity in reviewing, I actually think that this is when reviews shine - when somebody tells you why a game is important to them personally. Because, an objective review tells you about a game’s mechanics, but a subjective review like this tells you about…

With a few exceptions (cough paleontology cough), where an academic is located often has very little to do with their speciality area, or how good they are at it. Given the general strength of the US university system, the most respected and published academics in any field will typically be at US universities…

This cop’s actions were wrong, unreasonable, awful, and dangerous. But the people who paint all police as unhinged authoritarian thugs as a result of incidents like this are making exactly the same mistake as the few cops who actually *are* unhinged authoritarian thugs make when assuming the innate guilt of all black…

This really wasn’t true back when I played it a few years ago. I really wanted to like it, but there was just way too much MMO silliness in what would otherwise have been a nice RPG to stick with it for more than a month or two.

That’s dead center in the 15-25 Hz range that’s most seizure provocative. This was actually on an exam on one of my classes in grad school, which is why I remember that. Here’s the peer-reviewed paper if anyone wants the details:

Dunno if anyone pointed this out, but it looks like the swerve happened in front of the bike, not alongside it, and was already being corrected when the bike hit - probably not long enough for the biker to react, but early enough that it might have been either an ill-conceived and clumsy attempt to stop an illegal…

Wow. Masculine Cindy is a dead ringer for my deadbeat cousin, right down to the feathery hair and trucker hat.

Possibly literally, depending on where the bullet goes.

The only thing that amazes me more than how many people will pay extra for a phone that doesn’t work (apparently in the odd hope that someone might envy its pearlescent apple glow) is how many otherwise decent and intelligent developers pander to those shallow trendy hipsters by making apps for them that they will…

No offense, but this is absurd. Everybody has been enslaved at one point or another - the Irish were taken slaves by the vikings, the Spanish were enslaved by the pPhoenicians and then later enslaved most of central and south america, the Romans enslaved damn near everybody including Greeks, Russians, French, Germans,…

I don’t get the rage. Whoever she started as, she’s clearly spent her life trying to advance the cause of racial equality. Don’t her opinions and actions matter more than her race? I seem to recall important black people talking about that occasionally on TV over the last 50 years or so. I call hypocrisy, and not on…