He could always move to... [checks notes] ...any other first-world country

Making the text bigger is easy; making all the layouts still work (keeping everything on the screen, preventing “overflow” out of bounding boxes, etc.) can be a cascading series of complicated reworks depending on how flexible their UI system is.

Just goes to show that backwater ignorance isn’t specific to any particular country.

Given that they’re also _driving a race car down a track at maximum speed_ while trying to manage all those controls, I think I’d be requesting a macro feature

Am I the only one who thinks half the characters in this game are *unbearably* annoying?

It still works out though, because the latter half of your original loan is “forgiven”. It’s as if you “bought” the phone for half-price but had to give it up after one year instead of two. Or, if you prefer, it’s as if you bought it at full-price and then sold it after a year for half of what you paid. It’s not a bad…

I’ve had mine for six months. I have one of Apple’s basic silicone cases (the front is open), but I don’t use a screen protector. The only damage mine has taken are those micro-scratches that you can’t even see without first cleaning off all the finger prints.

I read Kotaku enough that I would pay a small monthly fee.

It sounds more like the cost of graphics. This game’s aesthetics - which they made premature promises about in that first demo - look truly next-gen. I’d bet that they explain nearly all of these cuts. For nearly a decade we’ve had sprawling open worlds with roving creatures, emergent scenarios, and side-quests you…

I’m not someone who’s prone to compulsion or addiction, but I’ve had exactly one (lesser) experience like this. I main Pharah in Overwatch, and when I first learned of her Mecha skin, I wanted it so badly. At first I just did a bunch of grinding for boxes, but I eventually spent around $20 on a string of loot boxes…

Those dynamically-lit glossy backgrounds in the dark area really interrupted the illusion

“It has been my great fortune to work with and be mentored by Reggie for four years at Nintendo of America,” Bowser said.

It’s The Witness all over again.

Even setting aside the stock options, how someone could make a million dollars a year and then also consume ten other people’s potential salaries is beyond me.

The important thing is that it’s not pay-to-win, but is anybody else offended to a lesser degree just by how incredibly contrived these systems always are? Why are there multiple types of currency? For god’s sake, why is there a crafting system? It’s just a pointlessly complicated way of unlocking things…

This is why they’re usually treated as separate categories; they’re fascinating in two different ways and take two different kinds of skill.

No kidding. The Switch’s interface is just so... functional. I don’t want my game console to feel like an Android tablet, especially my Nintendo one.

You left out one of the classics:

The part about the non-Google sites and services that rely on it was fascinating, but realistically, “dropping Google” for privacy reasons really just means not using their services and blocking the ads/tracking scripts. And that’s much more feasible to do. Google Cloud and Captcha are somewhat tangential, even if…

What a time to be alive.