Wait, you put salt and baking soda in pancakes?! Is this some kind of American thing? We just use milk, eggs and flour, and a bit of oil to coat the frying pan...

Vitally relevant information that; good we know that he’s not living at the house of a different relative or, God forbid, homeless!

I am kinda baffled that this has turned into a Big Debate, because honestly the UI in Elden Ring is just.

I haven’t played it, so I’m open to the idea that it’s better looking when you’re distracted by playing it, but it looks genuinely ugly in screenshots. I say this as someone who still cheerfully plays games from twenty-plus years ago; graphics are not something I am terribly fussed about, but a lot of the images of…

It’s a cliche, but a cliche for a reason that the hard right assume everything is a battle in a culture war, because to them it is. The idea that respecting others is just basic human decency doesn’t register, because they see it as a zero sum game, if I am not able to put you down, then you must be pushing me…

It runs abominably badly on my PC. My machine is pretty old, but nothing else I have played recently has run this badly. Deathloop ran fine! Fucking Cyberpunk 2077 ran fine on modest settings! But 2042 stutters and chugs enough that it’s only barely playable at all.

The Kinect was also (unsurprisingly) bad at detecting non-white people. I recall one instance where a dark-skinned colleague was trying to sign into his console using it, and his Kinect put a box around the back of my head where I was sitting behind him, and popped up “Is this you?”

It’s so good.

Yes, four years of the incredibly socialist Trump government. Obviously.

What the fuck have they done to Kainé’s face?!

Hm. Not sure how promising their pedigree of combat-heavy FPS titles is for this. The Wolfenstein games are good, but I wouldn’t want an Indiana Jones title to play anything like them...

Hi! White person here, speaking out for the marginalised community of trans people of which I am a part!

Leaving aside, for the moment, the many serious problems CP has, I wanted to address this:

The N64, for example, will forever be remembered for its introduction of a proper thumbstick, but there’s little else about that pad’s design that made a lasting impression.

If I saw something tagged “First Playthrough” I wouldn’t infer that it was what’s commonly known as a “blind playthrough”, I would assume that either it was (claimed to be) the first playthrough of the game anyone had completed, or that it was the first of multiple planned playthroughs by that streamer.

Good theory, but it wasn’t a developer choice, it was Sony themselves. It’s swapped even in the system software of the original PlayStation.

But in Japan, the O (confirm) button is in the same place as the A (confirm) button, and the X (cancel) button is in the same place as the B (cancel) button. So why would they decide to reverse that for the Western release?

I have been trying for years to find any actual info on why they were swapped for the West, and nobody actually knows.

Or imagine something like a Grand Theft Auto with actual modeled interiors for every building. Video games have been doing “look at that mountain, you can go there” for years, so doing it faster isn’t really that impactful. I want “look at this reasonably photorealistic city, you can explore every inch of it…

Never call the cops. :/