When I think of what I’d like to experience in the afterlife, I can imagine experiencing an infinite number of lives.

Game passes or whatever term they use are a second-rate service that generates a lot of direct profit for companies. They shouldn’t be seen as good. In the yesteryears of gaming one could rent a title through a company that could just give it to you for $5 and you could play the game for a bit. Used to be 2-3 days…

None of your takes are as important as questioning why these same people might vehemently defend online learning, using tech, and so on if it culminates into a “skill” for a job. The same people telling us to disconnect are sending us emails if we aren’t connected for hours at the right time.

Can’t you just decide what you want early on and stick with it?

Subscription models are preferred for a variety of reasons but mainly because they’re anti-consumer and anti-worker. Their success seems inevitable but better practices overall would largely wipe them out.

So racism but with a positive twist. Thank god for mega corporations like Facebook that dominate so hard and then give a fraction of a fraction back as good will PR for more money later.

The joke itself just makes me cringe but to call it “racist” is to “lessen” other acts of racism. Chinese rhymes with knees. The joke makes no sense. There isn’t anyone actually offended at stuff like this online who doesn’t have internet points at stake.

I’d rather consoles have more identity with individual games that are very different. Think Madden vs. NFL 2k and so on. 

The gears of the market grind ever onward, an irresistible force.

“Inverted controls” are mechanically more obvious. If you have a lever straight up attached to a piece of metal that’s horizontal, with a gear in between so that you don’t tilt, then it’ll be “inverted”. Pushing forward pulls the bottom to you. If there’s no sort of gear then it doesn’t. It’s intuitive in planes but…

Nerds in particular absolutely suck with realism. It’s a crux for not wanting to think about something critically. I always ask if “realism” is off the table then can Star Wars just replace lightsabers with pool noodles and and blasters with glocks? Clearly not. It’s not realism, it’s about expectations.

Per usual we end up in the worst combination of worlds thanks to bad practices. They don’t include a 2TB+ hard drive despite the clear need. Games are made haphazardly and sloppily so they’re bulked up with gigabytes they shouldn’t need. We’re using drive space instead of discs because that’s “old tech” or whatever…

Every complain about Geller as a person is missing the point. They named a Pokemon after him. All these years they could have just changed the name to not reference a living person.

This really does seem like the ideal way forward for international politics.

I wonder if things would be better - expensive, but for the better yet - if hardware went the way of the PS3 Cell architecture that was really advanced but still fairly simply. And if they dedicated time and space to just making a console big enough to handle it all. Airflow is such an important feature but it doesn’t…

This isn’t a progressive move.

The 360 was absolutely rushed out to compete with the PS3. Saying that it was manufacturing’s issue and not Microsoft’s is just compartmentalizing what was part of a long process. The structure of business at the time doesn’t change who gets credit or blame.

They push the limits but they also learn to use specific hardware really well. That’s the thing - even if you slowed down the release of newer chips and GPUs and the like, we’d be able to get games of a similar caliber. Look at any game released at the start of a console’s generation and any game toward the end. And…

You want people to tell others that they don’t have kids because they’re dedicating themselves to work? That’s likely the biggest issue we have. And it only works as an excuse if you’re massively successful; doesn’t work if you’re a manager for Staples or something.

They don’t respect your time because they’ve pursued some dumb metric the loudest voices have talked up: amount of hours as if they correlate with anything interesting to do. Games like Grand Theft Auto offered hours of content but the story made sense and you could progress really well. The endless hours offered when…