Those profiles are interesting. Guess I’d be a “Johnny”.

[sigh]. For me 95% of the fun is in originality. So I spent around a year trying to succeed while being original, burning money on boxes trying to keep up with the netdeckers (i.e., everyone else), and at some point it just wasn’t worth it any more when I’d literally never win a game.

Meetups are where it’s at. Of course that varies widely by location, but in Austin, for example, there’s a Pokemon TCG meetup at a different store nearly every day of the week.

I picked the Pokemon TCG back up a couple years ago, and enjoyed it until I got too bummed out by the metagaming. The winning strategy became “look up a winning deck on the internet, go buy those cards”, and if you didn’t do that you’d lose.

I mean, they used to be pulled into a whole separate “Defense” category. That’s since been simplified out, but there’s a reason it existed in the first place. When most people say “DPS” in the context of Overwatch they mean Genji, McCree, Soldier, etc. Characters that go out and just try to kill things. All I’m saying…

For once this wasn’t Facebook’s fault. Browser extensions are a hilariously massive security hole. Any old extension can execute arbitrary code on every page you visit and see (and modify!) all content, at will. No matter if you’re on HTTPS. No matter if your data is client-side encrypted. No matter if you’ve got…

Torbjorn and Symmetra, while technically high-DPS, play a different role than the characters colloquially thought of as “DPS”. And it’s not wrong to say that the tank, support, and defensive categories have gotten a lot more revision (and new characters) than plain-old offensive characters.

The N64 really did have a pattern of melancholy in its games’ music, and even in some of their stories. Dire Docks was mentioned, and Ocarina of Time’s title theme was another standout, as well as many of the songs Sheik teaches you. OoT has many scenes of farewell, aging, and decay. And then of course, if OoT was…

I’m honestly just looking at this game as “Smash 4 but on Switch”. Everything beyond that is gravy. Some of it, very weird gravy.

Yeah; the only thing is - and maybe this isn’t a good reason - I’m not really into cowboys? I suppose there is a surplus of fantasy/sci-fi titles out there, but part of me still wishes this much effort and originality had been put into one of those. From everything I’ve been hearing, though, I may be won over despite…

Bethesda games - at least Skyrim, the most recent one I played - don’t commoditize their worlds quite as intensely as the Ubisoft-likes. The numbers and checklists are somewhat more obscured, making them feel more like worlds and less like theme parks/tax forms. Admittedly, the Elder Scrolls games did gravitate more…

I’ve been completely exhausted with the Ubisoft formula since Shadow of Mordor; I don’t think I’ve bought an open-world game since then, aside from Breath of the Wild (which falls into some of those tropes, but does so with such charm and polish that I can mostly look past them to the greater game that lives alongside…

I wasn’t looking for Borderlands, but what I saw was all the bad parts of Borderlands (pretty drab shoot-outs and loot-grinding) without any of the good parts

I watched roughly the first hour of your stream, and what I saw just looked like Borderlands without the humor, charm, or wild guns and abilities, which is basically everything that make that series worth playing

Illicit actors won’t go to the trouble to target your specific device unless you’re Jeff Bezos or Donald Trump, but law enforcement will be happy to snoop your personal data if you’re, say, going through customs on the Mexico border.

Glad someone pointed out that Assassin’s Creed Odyssey actually belongs the Odyssey series; I had a much harder time finding a coherent story when I thought it was part of the Assassin’s Creed series.

I’ve never heard of Sea Monkey, but Theranos was straight-up fradulent... Magic Leap’s tech is very real, and is marginally impressive in its capabilities. They talked it up as if it were the Starship Enterprise, and what we got instead was an incremental improvement on the Holo Lens, for around the same price point.…

seething rage

DNS blocking is the only solution. For desktop browsers, traditional adblock extensions can do this. For mobile Safari, use a Content Blocker app. For your home, you can set up a hosts file on your router.

Here are DNS lists of all the domains owned by the biggest tracking offenders, so you can block their scripts no…

I look at it the same way I do Apple’s marketing. It’s fun to buy into the grand vision for a moment, so long as you filter things back out of the rose-colored glasses before making any buying decisions. Like Apple, Magic Leap is doing some moderately impressive things which are moderately innovative, and which…