A note: This isn’t the 3D Lords of Shadows, it’s the HD version of the DS-game spin-off.

Something to note: The console and PC versions of Dragon Age were more different from each other than it seems on the surface.

Dragon Age was initially concepted as a PC-only game, and the console versions only came about later in the process. The game is significantly easier on console (console “normal” is about the…

Did Glory Holes shut down?

You legitimately could just remove gearscore from the game (all enemies are now “at level” and all gear is just without a level) and the game would simply be much better.

Is it possible to 3D print your alt’s armor with your main?

Something that’s on Analogue’s site but wasn’t really in the press release they sent out:

“Pocket is designed for FPGA development. We added a second FPGA dedicated just for developers to develop & port their own cores.

My impression was that the Serpent Guards were those like Dominguez/Amaru: locals who were all-in on Trinity and who Trinity had allowed to leave the valley to get an education at Western schools and universities.

Yeah, the “immersion” option was weird ... because the game went out of its way to also say all the people speaking English ... were speaking English.

It’s been a while since I played the game and it’s mostly washed from my memory, but didn’t they have the fact that all the guards (and basically everyone else) spoke very modern English as an indication of Trinity’s targeted cultural authoritarianism over the valley?

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.