Not entirely accurate. Other streaming services don’t have the special features from the physical media that Filmstruck made available through their service. Also, the Criterion / Janus Films library is far more extensive than what they will ever be able to release on disc.

I’m not a NMA Bethesda-hater by any means, but man, Fallout 76 is totally the Flanderized version of Fallout.

My wife was asking me what I thought about Stan Lee last night. I am a confirmed DC Guy (she knows this).

The best I could come up with is that he had an unspecified amount to do with the creation of a shit-ton of popular Marvel characters, but that he had collaborators who were just as if not more responsible for the…

The vast majority of players don’t get crashes? Huh? How the fuck do you know that?

Lessyoung Sheldon: the incel years

I actually do. There’s nothing sexual about a stuffed animal in public. Sporting events have quite a few of them. If people want to wear leather thongs and nipple rings and chains in public, that’s fine too. I can see worse than that at the beach or pool when someone wears a thong/string bikini/banana hammock. 

There is no excuse to how lackluster the game currently is and been the case for the entirety of the Gamebryo’s usage. If Bethesda actually improved all the facets of the engine, people would not have complained. Just look at how awful the character models, animation, physics tied to frame rate, obnoxious depth of…

I really don’t get the hate for furries.  A lot of the hate comes from folks who otherwise enjoy cosplay and it’s very similar.

In the way that those are literally the same words homophobes use about gay people. “Look, keep it behind closed doors, you should be ashamed and shunned.” I’m not saying the attitude is homophobic, but rather it’s the same tactic being used. It’s like if something becomes accepted by the general public, people feel…

furries have been cool this entire time, y’all were just too afraid of anyone on the internet displaying any ounce of real sincerity for the things they enjoyed

please get off the retirement home’s community computer, the other elderly folks need to write actually useful things on the web

“comfort of your own home. But when you bring it out into the public and try to act like its normal”... sounds kinda homophobic/bigoted. 

To say that Starfield and Fallout 76 are using the “same engine” because they might share an editor and other common traits is like saying Indian and Chinese meals are identical because they both feature chicken and rice.

He’s living his best life and making crazy amounts of money playing fighting games. Hating on that seems a lot more “cringe” to me.

The issue with reusing the same engine, over and over, is EXACTLY why these games have so many bugs — they keep bolting on new features to old code bases, creating all manner of unforeseeable glitches and incompatibilities. And just as damning, you’ve got a lot of old code chunks that can’t be excised, waste CPU…

Why the hate? He is just doing something that makes him happy. It does not affect you in any way.  

Add to this that Tom Howard has stated that the engine is the reason there are no climbable ladders back in 2010. So we get stairways and loading screens instead.

I think it’s a bit of both. Iterating on an engine isn’t a hindrance when it’s done right. RDR2 is built on RAGE which Rockstar’s been using since Table Tennis and nobody can argue that they haven’t made generationl leaps on top of using the same groundwork to speed up development. But sometimes an engine has core…

Jason, I love the article but I think there’s something that is somewhat missed in all this discussion.