If you mind me asking, what 7200 RPM drive do you have plugged into your XB1 that doesn’t need an external power source? That would be more convenient on my end too.

I have a big 7200 RPM drive that does need an external power supply—you get what you pay for I suppose.

I wouldn’t disagree—I have a 7200 RPM drive plugged into my XB1, and nominally it’s faster than the default hard drive in a PS4 or an Xbox. It is on the louder side, and needs its own power supply, but it was very affordable even with the enclosure. Transporting it would be inconvenient, but I really don’t move my…

It’s a curious trade-off. On one hand, the PS4 (and PSFro) are generally designed to be pretty amenable to swapping internal hard drives. Yes, there’s some work, and you have to format it, but it’s doable. It is not doable on the Xbox One. However, the XB1 will accept any sufficiently-performing USB storage device as…

Gosh, first a uniformly terrible year (2016) and now this. What a bummer—I really didn’t know the last year was that bad for Platinum simply because I didn’t play anything they made (I did hear about how bad Star Fox was though). I wonder if that had anything to do with MS pulling the plug...

It looks super adorable. But frankly, I’ll stick with literally the best forge creative community in the history of the franchise (and one of the best in gaming period).

You’ve basically said “Stop enjoying things I don’t enjoy!” combined with “Fun is this and you’re doing it wrong!”.

This begs the question—should we prefer it if Donald Trump instead was...

Agreed. I remember Resident Evil 4 (HEY! LOOK! ZOMBIES COMING OVER THE BRIDGE! WAIT, THEY’RE STILL COMING! NO, WAIT, ONE LAST GUY! OKAY NOW YOU CAN PLAY!) and 5 also had this issue to varying degrees.

You absolutely could buy a PC—I own both a PC and a console—but no offense, a PC you buy for $300 (or less) may or may not be well-suited for playing those games. Even if you build it yourself, which not everyone can or wants to.

That would explain what they meant. I still haven’t seen the Soldier 47 short, so I’m behind.

Unfortunate but not surprising given the existing legislation—I wonder if there will be a rating change of some sort (this is how The Sims 4—and maybe The Sims 3, where Sims can obviously have homosexual as well as heterosexual relationships, are sold in Russia—they have a +18 plus rating rather than a +12 rating, in…

I remember that the TIE starfighter series—fighter, interceptor, bomber, etc.—were described in the past as featuring an extremely high-precision but relatively inexpensive (if only by the virtue of economies of scale) powerplant that had no moving parts, allowing it to be low-maintenance and, for an extremely complex…

Insightful! That does explain why almost every cosplay “superstar” I know of—or at least recognize by appearance—is American.

Cameras are pretty great...

Russia—and more generally its neighbors in Eurasia, including Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan—has a major photography culture going back decades, and a long history in hobbyist photography.

Apparently it has gotten a lot worse but (more so than I expected), to give it some context—Steam was drowning in shovelware last year too.

It’s worth noting that the original Kinect was one of the best selling video game accessories ever when it came out—in fact, I seem to recall it being the fastest selling peripheral released by any company in that console generation, but I’d have to look that up. Ultimately it ended up being a technological dead-end…

Kinect was (and is) vastly cheaper than PSVR, much less HTC Vive or Rift—of course, since the endgame for Kinect is “cheap depth-perceiving camera for educational or industrial uses”, that’s not much consolation for that. Kinect was largely a peripheral (and an ignored one at that—I say this as someone who still uses…

In the past, there has been some occasions that examination of equality and women’s rights and interests in Japan was en done without much consultation of Japanese women (not that I think this article is falling into that trap!). You in particular may be familiar with it, but for everyone else, there was response of…