If you’re choosing those locations specifically to forcibly alter the game state, then yes, you’re cheating. And if this sort of thing starts becoming common enough to “accidentally” happen on a frequent basis, I’d argue that it’s time to start imposing restrictions on the environmental conditions the system is used…

Many games are timed in a way where loading times are irrelevant. In those cases I’m fine with optical drive emulators.

A Game Genie doesn't mod anything either, yet is still widely considered a cheat. Whether it's a Game Genie or a hot plate, they're both still external devices being used to deliberately alter the game state.

There are admittedly more difficult to deal with privacy concerns raised by others, but bathroom breaks and other private moments could be dealt with via a “snooze button”. Pressing the button would disable the camera for a set period of time before reactivating automatically, and if the camera emits an audible…

That whole game is a language disaster. It’s as if they looked at every other fighting game out there and banned themselves from using any words that appeared in them. I mean, “1st Clause... DIVIDE!” and “BREAK DOWN! Vanishment of VOID”, really? Did they think using phrases like “Round 1, FIGHT!” would get them sued?

If your gold toilet is butt-freezingly cold, it was built wrong.

I’d love to be able to flip that around on them by refusing to authorize companies to commercially stream copyrighted content to me so that I can have them prosecuted for unauthorized commercial streaming of copyrighted material.

Easier for everybody. Blind people use words too, so they’re going to be just as affected when it comes to not using the word ‘blind’ “inappropriately”. Just look at the list of definitions posted by BlazeKingNJ. Between the four forms of the word ‘blind’ there are 15 main definitions, and many more sub-definitions.…

There may be no shortage of alternatives, but there’s also no shortage of alternate definitions for the word ‘blind’. It would probably be easier and make more sense to refer to people as being ‘visually impaired’ instead of ‘blind’, than it is to find alternate words for every other definition of ‘blind’, which among…

I had the same thing happen to me, except it didn’t ruin flight games for me. I used to play FPS games with inverted Y, and never had a problem. Then all of a sudden, one day my brain just refused to accept inverted Y anymore, and over the course of a week I ended up switching to normal Y. Fortunately, that only…

But in your camera on a tripod example, rotating the back of the camera left moves the lens right, and moving the back of the camera right moves the lens left. Why would inverted controls make sense for the vertical axis, but not for the horizontal axis?

It was much more than that. Right now it’s the world’s largest item of eWaste, which is considerably less flattering than pointing out its presence in games and movies.

Especially not the way it was presented in game. I mean, we’re talking about some kooky group that can barely keep itself alive claiming that they can cure the world—all they have to do is kill a child to do it. Their claims that they’d be able to cure humanity if they kill Ellie sounded like total BS to me. If…

Sometimes you don’t realize it interferes until after it’s started to deteriorate. Even in cases where it doesn’t affect function of the vehicle, it can get quite ugly. I’ve been in multiple cars with usable, but otherwise ruined displays because the clear plastic film was never removed, and eventually deteriorated…

Agreed. Based on images from various articles about the crash, I believe I found the site of the crash.

That doesn’t look like anywhere near enough front end damage for typical freeway speeds, let alone the sorts of speeds only a supercar can reach. I’ve witnessed far more damage than that from crashes below 65mph. Don’t discount the wedge shape of the Lamborghini when it comes to ending up under another car.

On the one hand, I absolutely agree with your point. One million failed consoles makes for a lot of potential complaints, even though the vast majority of people never experienced a problem.

I can kind of understand the complaint from the CRT days, as displaying a movie in its correct wide-screen format could result in a significant loss of detail due to the very limited resolution of standard-def TVs, especially for crazy wide ratios like 2.35:1. Also, TVs were often a lot smaller than they are now, so…

And given that the game has since been revealed to be a prequel, I’d argue that Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been canceled in favor of Beyond Good & Evil 0.

Keep in mind that plans likely started long before COVID-19 was on the radar of the typical American. By the time the pandemic became a major concern, commitments had already been made. And canceling months in advance doesn’t necessarily avoid penalties, because the owners of the venue can’t get back those months of…