Grass > Sand

I have an Xbox and can’t play Last of Us or God of War or Horizon Forbidden Zero West Dawn (sorry, that’s an inside joke amongst my Playstation friends).

I don’t care. I’m glad there are great experiences on that platform. I have my own that I enjoy immensely and wouldn’t give up... that doesn’t mean I’m going to…

That’s a fair consideration, but Sony’s acquisitions aren’t as small as you might be thinking. All of Bethesda’s eight studios sum around 1000 employees, while the six studios Sony acquired in the last 12 months sum about 600 employees. Firesprite is pretty big.

That seems like an odd concern for a few reasons:

Man, these guys really need to go outside and touch some grass

This dude thought we were gonna agree. 

I love my gaming PC but I’m not so entitled to not realize that a decent video card costs more then a PS5 or Series X.   

Kojima should be like …

Bummed out is getting ice cream after dinner because you got a parking ticket. Starting a petition to cancel a project that has nothing to do with you is deranged.

While Sony’s initial messaging to developers said timed trials for games would be mandatory, Microsoft says its demo program will be optional and allow developers to “be compensated” for sharing their games with the Game Pass audience.

Eh, I think it’s a little dramatic calling this the drought. This time of year was pretty crappy on Gamepass last year too. There’s still a large library for people to pick through (just look at the slideshow from last month that’s linked in the article). If you’ve managed to make it through them all, either your job…

“To decline that quickly when fully vaccinated is almost unheard of.”

Sure, but if something’s one in a million than someone is going to be that one.

The earliest she could have contracted Covid at PAX is April 21. She died on the 30th, so that’s 9 days, which is about the earliest Covid can cause organ failure. So that timeline is possible. It does seem a bit more likely that she was sick before going to the convention, but that’s not really a great look for the…

Because America, where you’re better off dead than having to pay off a hospital bill for the rest of your life.

There were rumors that they paid AMD for chipset priority. They also just generally have greater purchasing power because they’re buying a much larger number of chips - not because they’re trying to make way more consoles than Sony, but because they also use those same chips in their datacenter for cloud streaming. I…

After so long with this shit I’m starting to break down on being ultra cautious. It just doesn’t feel like it’s ever going to really go away and it is starting to feel like it’s just something we’re going to live with. But I still think even if you do nothing else you should at least be fucking vaccinated and I’m…

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 have friends who at this very moment are sitting at their desk on break playing mobile games they will tell you they don’t enjoy because the phsycogical tricks hooked them. The entire point of designing games around them is the game doesn’t need to be fun or interesting as long as the dopamine hit of opening a loot…

But for too long, the media discussion of mobile gaming has ignored the human component: the actual players. ... Their games aren’t inherently inferior, and they’re consciously choosing to play games that fit into their busy lives. It’s time that PC and console players learn to respect that.

If that were true slot machines wouldn’t exist.