Eh, it’s literally attrition with 12 teams of one instead of two teams of four (aside from the upgrade-weapons-on-kill thing, which is another old Halo mode). I guess if you squint it’s a battle royale, insofar as any mode that eliminates one or more teams entirely before the entire match is concluded will look like a…

I think they tend to hide behind the excuse of “the person who posted the comment being replied to is the one who has the power to reject a comment and send it to the greys!”

Usually the worst stuff in GTA is there to parody and point out the absurdity of the worst stuff in our society. I’m having a hard time figuring out how that was the case for this content, so it’s good that they’ve removed it. At best it is something that worked at the time but doesn’t any more given how society has…

Why is the picture for a new york style hotdog just a plain hotdog with ketchup on it?

it serves to be part of the constant “content drip” that keeps you subscribed. It’s not going to sell months of subscriptions alone, but it’s going to continue to justify the expense to people. That’s what it’s all about - get them in for something, then continue to demonstrate that it’s worth not cancelling. Stuff…

I never got the hate in general, it’s a pretty fun map to me - but I understand why it is frustrating in ranked where everyone spawns with a BR. It’s just not a good setup for everyone to have a ranged precision weapon on.

Sadly, there isn’t any money in that

Yea, metaverse itself has a long way to go to even get to the point so much as a theoretical idea that seems compelling. But “metaverse” is increasingly tied up with VR (thanks Facebook), and I was responding to a comment that was sort of conflating the two. I agree that while VR might seem promising, “metaverse”…

They’re hyping things up too early, and it’s going to kill the entire concept. This could be huge for work - once they actually get the technology to a point where it can deliver on even a tenth of what they’re envisioning. They’re at maybe 1/100th right now. They should be quietly working away at R&D, not hocking…

It was a better choice across the board than the actual shotguns in the game. They had to do something. I can sympathize with people who think they made the wrong choice for what to do, but not with people who think they should have left it alone.

New maps come with new seasons, and this season was double length to allow them to “catch up” - the consequences to a probably-too-early release. Presumably going forward it will be new maps every 3 months.

I couldn’t disagree more with this. It is absolutely their primary business. They’ve spent almost $70 billion on acquiring content for it over the last few years, anything else they’ve done in gaming pales in comparison.

That wasn’t a loophole, it was (and as of now still is) an intentional offering. You still can upgrade for $1. It’s been like that for years, and Microsoft definitely knows about it, and they’ve intentionally done nothing to “fix” it.

They didn’t look the other way, they did it on purpose. The deal is still active - if yours just expired, I suggest you let your entire subscription lapse so that you can do it again (rumors suggest they might outright remove Gold soon).

One would hope that they do what Microsoft did when Game Pass Ultimate released, and merge the two into a longer timeline. In general though, Microsoft’s transition prices were super generous, and I somehow doubt Sony will be as charitable because customer acquisition for this service is not their primary business…

Looks interesting, but having just gotten an Apple Homekey compatible lock (the first, I think?) yesterday, I can’t really see myself going back, even for such a streamlined package. The ability to use my phone as a key for the door even when the phone is dead is an irreplaceable killer feature of a smartlock, because…

Looks interesting, but having just gotten an Apple Homekey compatible lock (the first, I think?) yesterday, I can’t…

He probably wouldn’t mind if someone spilled a beer on it either because I’m sure he insured the hell out of it and that would just mean he gets his purchase price back plus whatever the attention from this stunt has made him in the meantime.

It’s a similar mechanic but as far as I can tell the penalties for not matching aren’t nearly as severe - and the “4 elements, 4 slots” layout of borderlands also makes it far less punishing. Match game in destiny isn’t terrible in and of itself, and actually might even be fun if, like here, it was the only element at…

HBO and Disney+ both put original content on the service Day 1. Granted, Hulu does too, but they’re primarily known for network TV where the whole model is based around trying to drive interest in watching the network shows live (i.e. the “supplement traditional distribution models rather than replace them” model that…

Game Pass is supremely confident about retention, as mentioned in the article re: their $1 intro price, primarily because of their content pipeline. I’ve not seen any conversation about what the content pipeline will be for this service, but the pricing suggests that Sony is not confident at all. $18/mo or $50/quarter…