That’s what the final bit total ended up at? When we went to bed after the Portal 2 run, I thought it was still under 3 million. Setting the goal for blindfolded Majora fight at 5 million was a serious overestimation of the popularity of bits.

I’ve not played him on the PTR yet, but based on Kaplan’s video, it sounded like his passive was supposed to mitigate that? Based on the reaction, I suppose that’s not the case? When I watched the video, he sounded OP at first blush, but guess he’s still squishy.

All I get from this is some mental gymnatsics trying to justify piracy. Obviously you are not intended to rip YouTube videos. YouTube would not have made it a paid feature of Red (to download and play videos offline) if they were okay with people doing it for free. The argument that ripping audio from YouTube videos…

It’s not mentioned here, but his rocket punch ability bypasses shield abilities like Reinhardt’s (and presumably Orisa’s). Curious how that is going to shake out long term. Could devastate a Reinhardt-backed offensive push on a defend the point map if done well.

How is ripping the audio track from a music video any different from pirating a song? One is made available on YouTube under the assumption that it will be ad-supported. By ripping the stream, you are removing any of the revenue generation. Therefore, how is this legal?

How is this legal?

I very much agree about the false equivalency that you pointed out there at the end. Her argument is bullshit. I play WoW and there is nothing like this that I can think of. There are a couple of raid mounts that used to be available but are now no longer, but while they were, if you had a group you could do the…

That’s right, completely blanked on that. Curious what they are going to add there too. The defense class is already fairly diverse, can’t imagine they’d add another sniper flavor.

As cool as a new offensive character is, I’m really curious where they are going to go after this. They’ve now achieved parity in new character class additions, so just start over I suppose? Really want to see where they go with a new support class character, maybe a new dedicated healer in the vein of Mercy.

Funny thing is I enjoyed FFTA2, but I hated FF XII. People can shit on X and X-2 all they want, but those were more enjoyable to me than XII. Get that weak-ass Xodiac spear bullshit out of here; even high school me knew that was some weak shit (and this, coming from someone who beat the chocobo race in the Calm Lands…

I’ll try to see this if it comes to a theater near me (Your Name got a short release at my local cinema, so maybe there’s hope). Holy shit though, that intro text is insufferable. “Sometimes the answer is as simple as learning...to listen.” I didn’t know marketing like that still existed in trailers.

Made this point on the D.C. article, making it again here. Gender and sex are not the same thing. You can have an opinion about your gender (man/woman/X), you cannot have an opinion about your sex (male/female). One’s social, the other is biological. So unless you have some genetic condition (of which do exist) that…

Ah, that’s actually not so bad. I still wish they would transition to a Netflix-of-audiobooks style model, but will have to keep that in mind the next time one of my doorstopper fantasy books comes out.

Ah, that’s actually not so bad. I still wish they would transition to a Netflix-of-audiobooks style model, but will…

Can someone clarify something about Audible for me? So is it or is it not a subscription service? The $15 a month gets you a book credit, but additional books still cost the MSRP, right? So what is the difference between an Audible subscription and just buying the audiobooks straight from Amazon? I suppose the…

Can someone clarify something about Audible for me? So is it or is it not a subscription service? The $15 a month…

The Dixie Pig stuff was good. My biggest problem with the last couple books is the major plot device that King adds. No spoilers, but I’m sure you can guess what I’m talking about.

I realize that the fallout of Mass Effect Andromeda wasn’t really the dev team’s fault (sounded like mismanagement by execs and project leads based on Jason’s reporting), but I am stilled pissed at them and Bioware as a whole for fucking up and potentially killing one of my favorite series.

I’d probably consider buying one. The newest Xbox One controller I own (I think the revamped one that shipped with the One S) lives next to my PC.

Very pretty Mike. I’d have a hard time justifying $103 for a regular Xbox controller (regardless of the customization options) when the Elite controller is only $150 though.

Thanks for the reply; I agree with you. The way that gender and sex are essentially used as synonyms for one another is problematic since they do mean, and imply, fairly different concepts, but that’s a discussion for another time. The fact that the District is being more inclusive on their licenses should definitely…

Feedback on the currently reading from last podcast: World War Z, the book, was great, World War Z, the audiobook, was fantastic (only have heard the abridged, so imagine the unabridged is even better). Seriously, go look up the list of VAs they got, it’s incredible. Kirk kinda alluded to it, but the Dark Tower books…