Are Anthem’s servers shut down?

We’re talking about the kind of one-off challenges that not only won’t end up on leaderboards, but also likely will never be undertaken ever again, either by other people or even by the challenge runner themselves. Is that really “speedrunning” at that point?

That just increases the murder potential, I’d think.

It is supposed to be a bad joke...

The big name games get front page coverage on Steam, so they’re not exactly buried. As for smaller games (and even the big ones), I just rely on covwrage from gaming outlets, such as this one. I have hundreds of games from big names and small indies on Steam, and not once have I had to sift through the shovelware on…

Wow, after your comment I had to go back and look for the comic because I didn’t remember what it was. Turns out that my brain registered it as an advertisement the first time around, so I auto-skipped it.

Oh, FFS. I was a big fan of Shadow of Mordor, but was already annoyed enough about the loot box nonsense that had been put into Shadow of War that I wasn’t going to buy the game for more than $5.00, and even then that was only after the loot box crap was removed. I guess it’s time to cross the game off my wishlist…

Unfortunately, that’s worthless until manufacturers start adopting standardized form factors. On my last phone with a replaceable battery, I had to navigate a sea of counterfeits and shoddy knock-offs to find a quality 3rd-party battery. Eventually when that second battery started doing poorly, the 3rd-party…

Now suppose the “fanbase” took that advice and held the streamers accountable for their actions?

That’s because she did the hard part already. To stand up for what’s right and basically get disowned in the first place instead of just going with the flow, shows a great deal of character. She probably spent her whole life getting force-fed racist bullshit, and instead of becoming the next generation of MAGA because…

You’re overlooking the difference between a reset glitch and deliberately inducing thermal instability in the hardware, that in addition to the reset glitch could cause the hardware to malfunction in other ways that would not occur if the hardware were running under normal operating conditions. I don’t see how a…

But he DID mention Hades. He just did so somewhat negatively. ;)

It’s just a cartridge that plugs into the standard cartridge interface of the console. No actual changes to the console hardware actually occur. If intercepting the data stream is enough to count as a mod, then a device that literally alters the console’s components so that they work differently due to thermal…

That sounds fine to me.

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.