Consider Maher has publically disagreed with the historical thesis presented by Dawkins and others—that you can tie Christian religiosity and clericalism in a meaningful way to to World Wars and 20th century colonialism as a source of violence relevant to religiously-driven violence today, I think there is “something…

As an atheist (from a country where atheism is actually common enough not to be controversial, even among older people) one thing particularly sticks out in my mind with Bill Maher was his interview with Richard Dawkins years ago. Dawkins, an avowed atheist and an evolutionary biologist, has expressed a…

Well, there are multiple ‘R’ (and a few ‘D’) in the legislature who’re advocating shooting down Russian aircraft in the Syrian Civil War—one could argue they’re probably amenable to confronting Russia in other areas, especially domestic affairs.

I think I will primarily remember Sen. McCain for the decade (or perhaps decades) he spent making his case for bombing Iran into smolder ruins (not wholly unlike what the United States did to my own homeland in 1945, which is perhaps why I fixate on it). I even remember when he managed to get television personality…

Arcades are still in vogue in Taiwan, particularly those locations operated by well-established gaming companies, like Club Sega in the Tiger City Mall in Taichung City, my own hometown—since modern consoles aren’t quite as prolific, they’re a place where you people can play modern titles. I’m bleakly confident that…

Worth noting—the oldest Xbox One controllers are also PC-compatible—just not wirelessly. You can connect any of them via a Micro-USB computer to any Windows PC and they will work immediately. Compatible, but you are limited to the length of your cable.

Worth noting—the oldest Xbox One controllers are also PC-compatible—just not wirelessly. You can connect any of them…

(They’re still mad about that, too. As recently as 2014, MPs in the Russian Duma formally called for him to be tried for treason for what they think was his purposeful efforts to dissolve the Soviet Union.)

I wasn’t aware of that (I’ve opened a few event loot boxes, and I didn’t notice the difference from previous event loot boxes). That’s certainly a welcome change, but my particular luck in this area might be bad enough that I’m still very dissatisfied with it. Thanks for sharing that.

Maybe? I tend to analyze all my (monetary) behavior in life, so that part seems normal, so I don’t consider that “over-internalisation” (?) but appropriate rationalization.

I have a pretty good way of contending with this in Overwatch, which I’ll share: every time I think I’m going to pay for loot boxes, I immediately recall that the unlocking system is goddamn horrible and I want no part in it.

And yet they couldn’t turn the Gamecube around. :(

I think I heard the same. Other consoles have been doing this for years (and we’re going to see something similar on the upcoming Switch), so I suppose this was an inevitability? While I can see some people preferring the alternative, it’s much, much more immediately approachable for the overall audience than…

Hey, that’s cool! I always assumed there was some specific concern keeping Sony from doing this, concern over the system’s integrity or something like that, but I guess that’s no longer true.

Update: it now says “You people didn’t like Federation Force. How dare you? You don’t deserve more Metroid!” Also some brief flashing screen about how Team Ninja secretly replaced all the writing for The Other M and it not being Nintendo’s fault.

I guess? I know multiple PS4 owners, but not a single person who owns a PS VR. That’s entire anecdotal though.

Wow, that’s messed up—I know I saw them in December at the earliest. I thought I saw them in January too, maybe I just saw some third party accessories? So I guess that does support the notion that they haven’t been shipping more (which is bizarre in its own way). If anyone’s feeling brave, go on BB’s website and…

I mean, literally go to Best Buy’s website and buy one right now—you’ll get it on the 31st, for nothing above MSRP (and even free shipping). Unless that’s only a Georgia thing? It’s crazy if so...

These things do change week to week—cross your fingers (if you happened to want one!).

Indeed, in any case, there’s no shortage with that particular retailer. Weird.

Drive up to Atlanta Highway earlier this month—they were absolutely here in the new (ish) Best Buy south of Athens. Okay, that involves time travel, but you get the point.