Could be worse. Intrusive advertising kinda sucks, but I’ll take ads for Sandman on Audible over ads for Buicks or political candidates any day.

Man, you know you’ve hit rock bottom when Dubya - who got us into two long, poorly planned foreign wars and saw the economy tank twice on his watch - is more willing to own up to his missteps than you and comes off as being more competent.

The improved load times vs. my XB1 would still be an improvement, but if the series X is only about $200 more but would have ray tracing capabilities and actually take advantage of my 4k TV instead of giving me pretty similar graphics to what I’m getting out of a 5 year old XB1...I’ll spend the extra $200 for a…

All we need now is for Neuralink to release a functional mind/machine interface and we’ll have completely arrived in a Gibsonesque cyberpunk dystopia.

I’m glad you made a worthwhile connection with someone you otherwise probably wouldn’t have talked to...but the whole process seems exhausting at best, masochistic at worst.

So...they’re suing him for the costs incurred by their lazy, quite possibly incompetent, police work?

Absolutely loved her as Chloe in LiS. It was a real shame she wasn’t able to voice her again Before the Storm. The actress they got was fine and all, but the game would definitely have been better with Ashly.

The capabilities described are intriguing. But it’s...Facebook. All that stuff will be used to collect even more data about you and push targeted ads at you. Only 100x creepier. Instead of having this eerie feeling that FB is somehow watching and listening to you...it will be explicitly able to see what you see and…

It’s impressive, but with my gaming budget being where it is nowadays...I’ll be looking forward to these capabilities when they make their way to the eventual successor to the Series X.  

The only benefit I see here is that it’s slightly cheaper than a subscription to Instacart. But it’s the same price as Shipt, and you’re stuck with Walmart’s fair-to-middling quality of fresh food. If they at least had Walmart employees doing the deliveries, I would say that you’d save on tips...but it looks like…

I’ll give it a shot since it’s on GamePass and the only thing I have to lose is some download time. I loved the original Wasteland as a kid, but...my standards were a little different back then, as were most of the available alternatives. I did attempt Wasteland 2 when it came out (mostly due to pure nostalgia), but…

I appreciate the insight shared here, and it’s got some good details. That said, the folks claiming that the COVID death toll is only 6% of the CDC’s tally aren’t going to listen. Not to the article, not to those of us who read this article and use it to show them how wrong they are.

You never know.

The simulation is out of sync, and the portion of the program managing the Twitter feed hasn’t caught up to the one that manages character mortality status.

Travelled throughout SE Asia in recent years? After the SARS and MERS outbreaks, surgical masks have been a normal daily accessory there for a lot of people for the better part of a decade now.

There was a lot to like about DA3. But let’s hope DA4 chills out with the fetch quests and keeps a more even pacing. DA3 was way too easy to get completely sidetracked in and lose all sense of urgency about an impending apocalyptic battle.

Colon cancer at 43 (technically, 39 when he was diagnosed)?

Or, you can just eat a decent veggie burger that‘s still tasty but isn’t ashamed to be made out of vegetables, legumes and nuts. Just as (if not more) environmentally sound, way less processed with fewer additives....and a fraction the price of “faux meat”.

A FPS shooter promoting fringe right-wing conspiracies? Sure...what’s the worst that could happen?

We’re talking completely different levels of threat, though. While there have been a few radicalized leftists that have engaged in some degree of violence, it’s absolutely dwarfed by the damage done by white supremacists, neo-Nazis, incel/men’s rights chuds and people bent on harming LGBTQ+ people.