What I’m tired of is blame culture. Things go wrong, immediately it’s, “Who fucked up? Who can we blame? I want to know the REAL story.” Sometimes there’s no “real story”, sometimes shit just happens.

And I’m sick of people treating Covid like it’s an excuse. The pandemic HAS fucked things up industry-wide and it HAS…

You’re talking about now. I’m talking about when the surge first hit last spring. And yes, it absolutely was unexpected at that point. We were just finding out about the Blizzard scandals, and the surge hit immediately after that. They didn’t “enlist” prominent streamers, those streamers made the move on their own,…

Except that isn’t a fuckup. They got hit with an unexpected surge in players and haven’t been able to acquire hardware to open more world servers. That’s an extremely unfortunate circumstance but not really something they could’ve done something differently to prevent.

Also the queues are way down now from where they…

I think that’s part of it, but a bigger factor was a sense that it was important to get in there and watch early on to avoid spoilers about who is and isn’t in the movie.

It helps that SE doesn’t usually fuck up the truly important things (and when they do, they own up to it and fix them), so it’s easier to just laugh about the little things.

Probably nobody would have noticed the Endwalker grapes either, except that one of the camera angles in a cutscene shows them really close up. I was honestly amazed they went for that shot with the grapes looking like they did, lol.

If we think the Eye of the World was slow and repetitive, just wait until we hit Books 7 through 9. I think all three could probably fit into one or two episodes.

I remember Howard Hesseman and his being replaced by Billy Connolly for the last season or two, I remember the theme song and how it was the first sitcom I ever saw that in its later years just played a couple bars of the theme and then launched straight into the episode. I kinda sorta remember the kids, especially…

It’s refreshing to see that Japanese gamers are just as ignorant and out of touch as Western gamers.

PS3's biggest problem, and what hampered FFXIV on it, was its video memory. Switch has 8x the video memory PS3 had.

Switch could run FFXIV just fine. The game is not exactly a bleeding edge hardware-pusher; the PC recommended specs are low. Even PS3 ran the game and the main limitation that caused the game to be handicapped on PS3—its low video memory—is much higher on Switch.

The main obstacle to FFXIV on Switch is the portability…

Michael Moriarty left the show because he wanted Dick Wolf to be fired for a perceived deference to Janet Reno—and canonically they killed off Ben Stone—so unfortunately he’s never coming back.

FWIW they say they’ve identified the major cause of the 2002 error and are rolling out a fix on Tuesday. The queues have gradually been decreasing, too.

I would recommend installing MS Remote Desktop on your phone and using it to join the queue an hour before you get out of work.

I have a feeling the public appetite for erotic thrillers and sex scenes dissipated a lot with the advent of internet porn. People aren’t as repressed and it’s not as exciting when you can just see sex any time you want to, anywhere.

Oh yeah, I love stuff like that. That Zelda II save I mentioned is off the one and only cart I still had from when I owned my original NES (the rest I foolishly sold at some point and the other NES carts I have today I was forced to re-acquire as an adult). So when I not only found the save still intact but was able…

There are two reasons for the high resolution: one, they can recreate the different resolutions from various consoles without the non-integer scaling being a visible issue. Two, it allows them to simulate the differing screens from each handheld exactly. The article talks about this some, but I recommend other reviews…

(Honestly, at this point, I want to figure out an easy way to back up all those files but that’s a conversation for another day.)

You’d be surprised. Using the jailbreak on the Analogue Nt mini I was able to make a copy of my Zelda II save from like 1990. It was still on there, somehow. All level 8s, parked right before the final dungeon. Now thanks to Analogue I’ve preserved it indefinitely. Now, I hope, I’m going to get to do the same thing…

It’s more than just plausible, it’s fact. It took my company four months just to get 2 server machines they ordered, and meanwhile according to Yoshi-P a single World server requires 10 of those.

Server pops were never really that much of an issue (apart from player housing shortages) until this past spring when WoW players started switching over en masse. By that time we were a year into the pandemic, and they just haven’t been able to compensate in the interim because additional server machines aren’t…