I love the speed of the game, but I do almost wonder if the game had been built for 8 turns instead of 6 if it might have a little more depth (plus they could have spread the power rates from 1 to 6 to 1 to 8). Weird things game designers think about late at night.

Honestly ridiculous to have Dominic West as Prince Charles. If Prince Charles was that good looking, the entire history of the modern crown would have been completely different. Diana and the country would have loved him. Here’s much better casting:

I mean the real answer is that he either has or is negotiating his upcoming Superman contract, right?

Yeah, Twitch and Lenovo aren’t going to pay a cent, the venue and the company they contracted to build and run the booth are going to be ones financially liable. That’s how this works. And, honestly, this is exactly how it should work.

“Rome” and “From the Earth to the Moon” not on the list? Turn in your badge.

It’s fun to slag on Facebook, but honestly the Quest is very well made for a VR headset.  The idea that it should be more than an entertainment device is stupid, but they have built a very good piece of technology with the huge number of constraints they had.

From a technical standpoint getting Fortnite on a quest is actually pretty hard. For VR to work it has to render at at least 60 FPS, at 1080P, and once for each eye, so that is already 4x what Fortnite on your phone of pc needs to do. It also needs to be doing a lot of calculations to process that cameras into the…

The other trade-off also is latency.  You can get things that look good with less sensors, but the time lag is longer (which might not be a big deal in this situation).  (Latency = you kick your foot out and it shows that movement 1/2 a second later - no big deal for a social room - a big deal if you are kicking a…

Big is relative. For a lot of companies having a business the size of the Xbox or Playstation is a 20 year goal. But for a company like Facebook, they are looking for industries the size of the IPhone.

They have to own a fully vertical stack (meaning hardware, OS, software layer). It’s too late to enter the phone market now, so they have to get into the next hardware wave. We might debate when they will happen, but it will be AR glasses. (VR is going to be a big market: Game consoles + exercise scale, but AR will be…

Worked there for years. The upper management knows that long term there isn’t much future in social media to make money (particularly if you don’t own the platform), so they really don’t have any choice but to try and do what they are doing.

Most likely the company that runs the event - maaaaaybe the company that owns the venue. This isn’t their first rodeo. The companies with their names on the booths are protected by several layers contract companies. And honestly, Lenovo and Twitch have nothing to do with this. Do you think they have a foam pit…

The avatars are terrible, but if you go into a vr meeting with good spatial audio it is literally 100 times better than a zoom meeting. It is shocking how many monkey brain parts of you head light up when some kind of spatial representation of a person and the audio sync up.

No one watches RomComs in movie theaters anymore.

If cruise ship burned fuel remotely as cleanly as cars and trucks it wouldn’t be a problem. But because they are on international waters, and their emissions are largely unregulated, a cruiser ship’s engine is one of the dirtiest diesel engines built by man. 

I am completely convinced this is all PR at this point. Movie has zero going for it, so they release a bunch of this shit in the channel to try and raise some desperate interest. Sites like this easily fall for this stuff.

I don’t think releasing these rumors are going to goose the ticket sales.

I think a lot of it is just Taylor Lorenz. Man, do a lot people on reddit, 4chan, and twitter hate Taylor Lorenz. Just having her as a commentator in your doc gets 1000's of people to hate it.

Cunt isn’t as vulgar a word in the UK as it is in the US.  Context is important.

It’s a shame, because I think you could support an hour or two a week of good video game programming, especially if you hired some people that actually understood the industry to interview people about the process of making games. Maybe another few hours if you include competitive gaming. But the idea of hanging a…