I didn't rush to get my license. I was an avid walker and had public transit and carpool figured out for most situations and reliable parents if I needed a rescue. My state also had pretty intense New Driver Limbo for teens "under the legal age" so I did driver's ed in time to get my license at 18 and saved myself…

The reason that selling them is a problem is that you then can’t just say you are offering backups of games people already own, which is how most ROM sites stay in they grey. You can almost always find a place on those sites where you have to super duper pinky swear that you own the game already and are downloading…

Nintendo probably wants a permanent injunction but has to wait and prove bad faith to get it. They probably don’t care about getting the money, but they had to send a message (you can’t say that a single guy with basically no income caused you less damage than Evil Megacorp doing the same thing without setting preciden…

I baffles me that Google, Apple, Ikea and other big names can’t just back Z-wave directly. OTOH, maybe I am glad not to be any more attached to their fickle fingers of fate. The loss of Google Play Music was a pretty big blow to our smarthome usage when it happened and I have watched Apple struggle to take what should…

I have found my GE z-wave switches work well (except when I have to switch hubs dangnabit) but my z-wave door locks are essentially obsolete as smart devices. I still think it’s the best platform, but not everything has turned out future proof.

This. I have converted about 2/3 of my house to GE z-wave switches (hey, not everything gets done at once around here) and it runs off Hubitat, so I have some local control and a good passthrough to Google. I have over a hundred bulbs in my house, so smart bulbs were obviously off the table. The switches are great…

The sarcasm is strong with this one. 

I would argue HL: Alyx was just as big a jump in it’s own way. I know a lot of people are displeased about it being essentially VR only but it really does showcase VR as something different than what you can do on a PC beyond the silliness of The Lab or Aperture Hand Lab or frankly anything you might possibly call a…

I am not too picky but my wife wants an absolutely silent option for video conferencing and so far even the ones advertised as silent have been too loud. We'll see if switching mics helps.

I’m not going to pretend VR is the future (too many inherent problems, namely physical objects and movement in real space and VR space being a bit at odds... said as a VR lover and advocate) but Steam’s VR setup is far and away the most pleasant, versatile, and useable VR setup I have tried (not talking the actual…

To be fair, every other store that tried that was pretty much DOA until Epic, and even Epic... yeah. Steam managed to brand themselves as the PC equivalent of a consul store (with some hot in-house exclusives) at exactly the moment that digital media became viable, and somehow it ended up not being completely…

Bwahaha, first thing I thought.

I easily spent over a grand on my dogs this year so... okay? Anyway, I’m not going to get a PS5 or 30xx graphics card from a scalper, and I think it’s patently absurd that these things are basically impossible to get at retail so that crypto miners can get their juice. I would be less annoyed if this wasn't a whole…

Lego also did some Disney partnerships, they aren’t swinging on just one thing, but I think Mario was the perfect confluence of a nice backlog with some good variety and a 35th anniversary push all during a pandemic when The Right Age Kids really needed something to do, and maybe some Elder Millennials who wanted to…

How many of those people play jrpg's though? 12 million candy crush fans isn't going to help this game.

This definitely pulls some design language from the Bolt, LEAF and i3, but maybe that's just the size catagory.

Frankly it looks like someone left a dodge charger alone with an i3 for too long. Individually I like or at least don't mind the designs of those cars, funky as they may be... Individually I also like garlic and mint. 

It does feel a bit like they have the same promotion team as CDPR employed for Cyberpunk 2077. Let's hope they have a smoother actual launch at least. 

I hear there are places you can get cocaine without having to sleep on the sidewalk outside Whole Foods despite earning an engineer’s salary. Hell, you could probably buy a castle in Europe and get cocaine delivered by electric truck and come out a bit ahead on the finances.

I for one am deeply upset that all the money I spend on fine publication that obviously only publishes the best journalistic excellence would stoop to an article such as this! I demand a full refund and to speak to a manager, er, editor! /s 🙃