Nintendo naming feels like the uncle you think is eccentric until you see a bonified Q post. Like, yeah, it’s a little quirky but it’s not Xbox Series 1X (did they ask Musk to name it?) or the inscrutable combinations used for video cards and CPUs. Nor is it renaming a company “Alphabet” or “Meta” or “X” (what is his…

Switch or Switch Out-U

Isn’t the more recent The Last of Us game also a system exclusive? Fair if you didn’t include it because you aren’t interested though. I also think first party and/or exclusives are very different between Nintendo and... well any other current gen consul. Between two blockbuster Zelda games, several good to great…

Yeah, as a fairly serious fan of virtual reality, I have to agree with this. The biggest barriers to virtual reality adoption are not clear images or lack of being able to just think your inputs, and frankly brain control interfaces have been around for a long time without ever being that good. If VR is going to move…

You mean a game reviewing website is actually carefully reviewing a major release game and digging into the details instead of giving it a vague "seems good enough" like any shmo can do? What is the world coming to? They even separated it out into articles so people could read about aspects important to them. How…

Did you read the part about other Bethesda games getting mods for accessibility and the argument against it? In the past, Bethesda has leaned hard on mods for accessibility and QoL improvements, and that’s a huge problem because 1) it’s not great to lean on unpaid labor to make your game worth buying and 2) with…

The best solution to this that I have found is actually hardware, not software. You can get headphones with a max volume (usually sold for kids, so don’t get your hopes up for something fashionable). It seems like a limiter should be a reasonably easy piece of electronics to rig up in line with a headphone cord but I…

My skull has a ridge in it, so now I am debating how long I need to wear some chonky can headphones to counteract that, or at least turn myself interested the world's lamest unicorn.

It would be pretty great if they took all the effort going into Project Q and put it into launching their new accessibility controller, or at very least into figuring out why something so pointless made it into their official announcements.

Are you willing to share the name of that video game museum? It sounds neat, but I also understand if you don't want to call out your general location. Here in Seattle I am still waiting for The Living Computer Museum to reopen. 

I think that people who are truly good at organization and minimalism have to have an almost militant attitude about it, or else the exceptions pile up really fast. I’m not accusing people of being hoarders, but it takes some thought and action to keep from ending up having a small warehouse of essentially useless…

I bet a good chunk is foam. My 2080 ti packaging was SERIOUSLY over-foamed (and of course all the foam was glued in to make it virtually impossible to reuse or recycle). It wasn’t as ridiculous as the CPU for that system though, which came in a box in a large icosahedron in a box, and yes, I DO still have the…

I will say, when I sold my used PS4 after finally getting my hands on a PS5, it was nice to be able to sell it in the original box. For people who still have boxes for their PS3 or PS4, and still have the systems to go in those boxes, you may as well keep keeping the boxes. I went ahead and tossed (recycled) my PS5…

To be fair, other than the Joycon thumbsticks and the original kickstand, the switch can still take a serious beating and be none the worse for wear. 

It’s sort of funny that a basic con artist gets so much attention but leaded gasoline doesn’t even make the list. I would maybe acknowledge that it's too general for the museum if "plant based" wasn't on the "failures in progress" sign. 

I have a passive 3d TV that's pretty good, so you can use whatever cheap rotational polarizing glasses you are encouraged to "recycle" at the theater. Since it's 1080p and the 3d cuts the resolution in half in one direction, it is a little noticable when it takes that cut, but it's still fun. That said, I'm also "that…

I just started playing it (on PC, after buying it on sale probably a year ago) and it is FREAKING BEAUTIFUL. I don’t know about gameplay much yet but at least the drive mechanic is better than in Watch Dogs, and character customization is pretty good too. It's very clear that the failure was in releasing an unfinished…

The code for their comments section may get there anyway. 

The whole point of IVF is that spray and pray didn't work, so no, just grabbing a cocktail shaker isn't going to do it. Now, I personally think it's weird that we can make bespoke babies but not provide a well documented drug to people who have had miscarriages so they can move on with their lives, but oh well. 

That’s not actually disagreeing. The RIAA EQ curve is what causes the “warmth”. It’s the same thing, said differently and the same reason some people still use tube amplifiers instead of transistors. Of course, with a high enough quality digital file and transistor DAC, and comparable speakers, any effect can be…