FWIW The PS4 has had this ability for about three years now. (Also, neither the PS4 version, or the old version of Steam’s remote watching API have ever had low enough latency that this wouldn’t be a nightmare for the non-local person in the game).

You can play for free on all of the maps right now. There is nothing capping your gear progression regardless of the amount of DLC you have (IE the number goes up as high as the other players). Certain campaigns must be purchased for you to play them, but they can be purchased as you choose and you don’t need all of…

Yeah, it really should be noted that the Atlantis DLC is basically a 15-30 hour sequel to the game that breaks the way the game plays (in a good way) and adds new mechanics and totally different feeling environments.

This reminds me of many conversations I’ve had with people about HearthStone after they misprounce it —usually because they say “well it’s not a real word, so what does it matter.” Except, you know, both “hearth” and “stone” are real words and HearthStone is literally a stone that takes you to a hearth in the fiction,…

FWIW English twitter does get twice as many characters as Japanese twitter. (The fact that you can pack so much more meaning into fewer characters in Japanese was what made Twitter switch to 280 in English in the first place, since they liked the tone and feeling of Japanese Twitter more than that of English Twitter)

Every time I fire up a new FF8 game I obsessively scour the opening island for 100 of every spell you can draw there even though that’s mostly pointless and the best way to “level up” (get more powerful spells for your junctions) is to play cards and refine items/magic from them.

The problem with it isn’t so much the mechanic as it is that it really requires a specific build to beat: IE you really need a good high RPS weapon to consistently break the boss’s shield. Also the encounter is, by design, much harder in multiplayer, since there are adds in the “damage phase” arena (no other encounter…

“It is not a global thermonuclear war”

If there are a billion climate refuges, many India or Pakistan or China, are you sure it won’t be global thermonuclear war?

Funny. I don’t know why the higher ups at the company — smart adults in the room who once ran Forbes.com — would roll out such a video player before it was ready.

Gremins 1 is a better movie ... but it’s also sort of a bad movie. Gremins 2 is a very good whatever it is.

Wow, you misspelled “greatest battle theme ever made” there.

It’s a 162 game season where most of the teams are out of playoff contention by game 90 and many are out by game 50. People are less willing to stand for that these days. I don’t know if it’s really that much more complicated than that.

Early on the auto-balancing jacked up the difficulty too much when in a group. It seems to have evened off now. It’s much easier in a group generally, since certain weapon mods have the exact same amount of benefit for three players as they do for one (the aggro stealing tree for example, or the hunter vision), and…

Or he’s going to be Johnny Cage but they’re keeping it quiet because they don’t want racists mad about it.

At least part of it with the Art and Arcana book is that a LOT of the early art for D&D was both amateurish and stolen, so they can’t really tell the story of the art (and D&D generally) without facing some of the seat-of-their-pants ugliness of the early days.

FWIW, the giant, glossy, huge, expensive, officially licensed Dungeons and Dragons Art and Arcana book tells a story that’s actually surprisingly similar to the one above (though it doesn’t linger on the grievances)

I remember in Bound by Flame after you finish creating your character, in the literal NEXT SCENE, there’s another character who refers to you as the default character name, not the one you chose.

Both of their matches went to absolute LINE too. Essentially came down to last combo wins both times.

My impression was that he was particularly public about that appearance because he wanted to let Alfred know he was alive.

I always think of playing with Mouse and Keyboard as essentially playing with cheats. Especially for games like CoD that were designed controller-first.