We made a very conscious decision that after about 30 hours of Shadow of Mordor that the player should just be OP as hell and be able to have fun blowing through everyone with all kinds of wild tools. I think it is the best way to make a single player game!

Another reminder: the only reason GameStop survived Target and other retailers moving into their space in the early 2000's is because they commercialized a resale market and basically stole money from the game developers that you all claim to appreciate.

Does it bother anyone else that there isn’t some way they can recycle these? I mean can’t they throw these in some vat and make new Funko Pops? Shouldn’t they be made out of a material that can do that?

That’s my whole point, you basically do two kinds of saves. One on the server (that is an always online play) that is uncorruptable. And a single player save that you can do whatever you want.  There are issues with this approach, but it’s probably the best you can do.

I don’t mean it in a pejorative way (my bread and butter is hard sci-fi!) I just mean it in the sense that it’s never going to be more than 1-2% of the public. So your article is not going to catch fire because a ton of people are going to say “Fantasy with hard rules about magic! Let me read more!”

You’ve answered your own question right there. Writer is assigned to write an article about an very popular author. Finds out his life is beyond boring, his books are serviceable, but will always be for a non-mainstream audience, and desperately needs to add some spice so that he can produce an article that will get…

I think you could make a great Terminator 3 that is sort of a prequel / sequel that completes the time loop and shows what happens after Reese and company get sent through the time machine, but that would have to be the end.

I honestly don’t think the movie would have worked without them. The script is ok, but it’s the cast that makes that film a classic.

There was a very good Alien comic about Newt coming back to earth and her cryo-pod failing so she was an adult when they woke her up.

Game dev here. I’m not sure why he isn’t saying this, but I assume its “always-online” for cheat detection. Basically they don’t want you to just download a utility that gives you all the best stuff and then when you play multiplayer with others you are just a ridiculous beast (even in PVE this is still not fun).

I just can’t believe this show is still on.  I remember watching it when it first came on, seems like a completely different world today.  I swear it was 20 years ago!

100% this.

To me the biggest issue from the video was that it looked like all four characters played the exact same way, flying around with the long range gun fire. I assumed a core part of playing the game would be that the four characters would play different (I especially though the shark guy would be primarily a melee…

They really should have gone out of business a few years ago. Their physical assets were just about at about the price of the stock - which would have triggered someone buying them up, selling them for parts and that would have been the end of it...but then the idiot meme-stock thing happened and pumped a few more…

I see someone hasn’t ever player Lost Frontier. Go look it up Ethan, you’ll thank me later (and change the title of this article to “2nd Best”).

1) Melania is just waiting for him to die

I can’t see any scenario where the stock doesn’t go down another 80% in the next 5-8 years. They just aren’t that big of a car company. In very simple terms they are smaller than BMW in every measurable way (employees, # of plants, # cars produced, models, R&D budget, etc...) and yet worth 6 times as much. And there…

Yes, but SpaceX is pretty great.

Now that the big automakers are turning their entire R&D budgets to EV, it is only a matter of a few years before Tesla is massively out-gunned. It’s simple economics. If he doesn’t move into new areas he is going to be sitting on second rate tech, below average build quality, parts issues, a very small overall market…

The Boring company’s whole business model was cozying up to politicians to remove safety requirements to make tunnel construction massively cheaper. Why not apply the same business model to nuclear plants?