Having your fate tied to an Oriole is a curse to which many can relate.

As a programmer, I’ll tell you right off that it is a BAD IDEA to rely on a OS kill-switch for everything and expect that every application handles it perfectly in all cases.

Alt-F4 sends the SIGINT signal, and it is absolutely possibly for the developers to botch how it’s handled and kill the program in the middle of a write operation. Handling shutdown gracefully is such an elementary part of development it would be pretty bad if they didn’t though. I’m guessing it’s akin (if not the…

The supershort, reductive, not completely true but mostly accurate answer is that a VTuber is a Muppet but a streamer but digital but an anime character and it’s set up like pro wrestling.

The actual, real, in-depth answer is that VTubers are streamers of varying stripes whose main gimmick is that they represent…

thinking NFTs are a scam because “how can you own something digital”

URNOT❗E

This is super ironic to me. Let me tell ya, I’ve been served, time and time again, the eternal argument AGAINST backward compatibility by Sony fanboys saying that they much prefer Sony invest its money in making new games instead, and that BC was for Xbox losers, that anyone who wants to play old game should just keep…

The Mootrix?

It was right there . . .

cryptocurrency and NFTs are a scam.

That’s a lot of opinion about a game you didn’t play. 

“Is a” vs “has a.”

Is there any reason why you seemed to willfully disregard the artist’s actual point, mentioned in the gist you linked to?

Or the free weekly games from Epic

“Has this guy ever played any MMO ever? The loot systems of every multiplayer game with any kind of progression is predicated around scarcity.”

The first one to be given the 4K treatment is Deceived, which was first shown off in June 2009, long before the game’s actual release, and at the time had a lot of people saying “holy shit this looks amazing”.

bUt It’S mEnTaL iLlNeSs, NoT gUnS

I linked it there for those reading the story but unfamiliar with what the videos actually were, but the vid has now been removed because that was also a stupid idea.

I don’t disagree with the notion that the attachments and deck-building make it less pick-up-and-play friendly than L4D, but I also think that’s kind of a silly criticism to make. L4D would drown in a week if it were released today.

For better or worse, we just don’t live in the world of static arcade shooters…

Putting the person who spent one month on the project in the credits devalues the credits of the people who spent 4 years on a project.

I have mixed feelings. I love Cyberpunk, and have since I was a young teen and discovered Gibson for the first time. However, I am also sick to death of pixel art. Maybe its because I remember it from when it wasn’t some retro-looking design choice, but the only choice because of hardware limitations. Maybe it’s…