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On one hand, fair for Hotz to say he realized he couldn’t do what he thought he could. He thought he could come in, fix a bunch of issues that Twitter’s former engineers couldn’t/wouldn’t, and get a high-five and a big paycheck from God Emperor Elon. Got a look under the hood and went, “Yeah, nope, that’s f***ed

Good for them. That’s actually pretty clever to hold a strike in a game that mirrors supply chain logistics in way that would - consciously or not - enable people to do so.

At first, I was like, “Man, that’s extreme, I wouldn’t imagine ‘Jimmy Pesto’s VA’ to be someone popping up in the Capital riot hubbub...”

And then I found out he’s best buddies with the Proud Boys, he worships Trump as a demi-god, etc. and it all seemed less surprising.

Don’t get me wrong, this is a huge step in the right direction and a major improvement. I’m glad to see they seem to be dedicated to acting on player feedback. This is a big step.

The “beta” defense is a cop-out. I’m sorry. I love Halo, I’ve always loved Halo, but you can’t tell players MP is beta with the clarification that it’s pretty much launch-version status; get negative player feedback about progression schemes and paid tracks; then claim “well, it’s in beta.” We’re not talking about

I get the negative feedback. It’s a massive price increase for a small amount of mediocre emulations of games we already have in other (better) forms. Yes, it’s only $50 a year, but it’s a +250% price increase (assuming you’re going from $20 to $50) for...some poorly-emulated 64 and Genesis games that are mostly

I’ve seen the Youtube-channel-username players dickstomp teams, so it’s hard for me to disagree with the “P2W” conclusion. And to those people who say “it isn’t as prominent at lv15+”...kinda, but by that time, you’ve already lost the match. If it takes you until the end of a match to find even footing, it’s been sort

Isn’t that the Catch-22 of it, though?

Anti-vax lunatics spend all their time circling the same “Facebook science” posts to reassure themselves that the world is wrong and they’re right, refuse to accept...y’know, ACTUAL science...claim that it’s all a liberal hoax and it’s not as bad as everyone says it is...

Then the

I’m not picking up a torch or pitchfork or anything, but I agree this is pretty underwhelming. My OG Switch has some dents and dings from my kids, so when it was announced that a new Switch model was coming out, I figured it would be a decent upgrade/replacement.

I wasn’t expecting 4K or anything “modern gen” by any

I miss these kinds of flight combat sims. I still remember playing Red Baron a million times as a kid with a cheap two-button flight stick on my grandpa’s old Windows 95 PC. I loved how you could play missions as the war went on, and what you did or how you performed would result in different effects on the overall

If people selling off graphics cards to try to order the RTX3000 series tells us anything, it’s that this would be a terrible idea...because scalpers will absolutely gobble all of these up to resell at a premium.

I think in the current age of Star Wars movies, I’m leaning the other way. I was mostly fine with the sequel trilogy until the last half of the third film took an already-shaky train off the rails and into the ground.

It’s sad, because I recently started trying actual D&D with some family members who had been asking to play for a long time. When I saw ads for this game, I thought, “Oh, awesome timing, an Icewind Dale/D&D game!”

First review I read gave it a glowing score, but didn’t really give a ton of practical details on why, so

I have to call BS on the pearl-clutching over 78 degrees in Texas. I live in AZ, a similarly hellish landscape where we enjoy 120+ temps in the summer, and 76-78 is considered the reasonable temp for an air-conditioned house. I’ve also had newborns of my own in the house during flat-out AC failures and power outages

I think you pretty much summed up the differences: MC and some retailers taking active measures to try to curb it because they actually care about their consumers - versus - manufacturers and distributors who don’t care, because at the end of the day, they just want to sell everything in stock and make money.

Ethics

I say this with absolutely no snark intended, but I honestly forgot about CP2077. It launched, I got it on Steam, I powered through it - cringeworthy glitches and all - and it was...alright, not horrible. I think the fact that the cuts and missing content bits were pretty visible and a stark contrast from what was

Eh. I’m still tinkering around with this one. I bought it because I had Steam credit and it’s been all over the “video game news” lately, but so far, I don’t get the hype. Like a typical “early access” game, there’s obviously some cool concepts and you could tell there are good ideas here, but the execution doesn’t

The sad thing is, this is a statistically proven fact. It’s not even political or a radical opinion, it’s a black-and-white numerical fact that the discrepancy between executive pay structure and the average employee wage has exponentially widened in the past few decades, and it’s only getting worse.

I think what

Christian bakers refuse to do business with gay people because of their views: free market, freedom of speech, personal rights, etc.

“Progressive” people refuse to do business with angry, violent, or terrible people: CANCEL CULTURE, UNFAIR, WITCH HUNT, UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

I have to imagine that it wasn’t just a random, unprovoked decision to leave gracefully. There had to have been inquiries and conversations, and Leavitt likely decided he should bow out before it got any further than that.

I also have to imagine, based on his sort of tone and history, that his video will be the usual