Um, what? The decision to stop development on the PS5 version was done before Sony objected to the Activision deal. So without any objection, they taught Sony that they would cancel their versions of games. Sony is now trying to keep them from doing that further. 

Quick correction to this part of the article: “He had reportedly been arrested for these charges and pleaded guilty to two counts in October of that same year.” He pleaded NOT guilty to the two counts. The current version makes things very confusing.

I’m not sure where you get incompetent. Are we deciding that not successfully overthrowing a dictatorship=incompetence? I don’t particularly like them, but incompetence seems a lot.

The ending to TLOU is fantastic, but the setup to the ending is terrible. It’s really where this game stumbled. Because Joel’s reaction is absolutely something that is meant to be seen as dooming the world, but also as something absolutely reasonable—a father saving his daughter. The problem is that really horrible…

Sometimes I feel like I must be the crazy one, but I never enjoyed You’re Wrong About. It always felt like a person who JUST read something giving us their book report, but we’re pretending that we have just been given top-tier knowledge from an expert? It’s fine, if you enjoy the personalities, but you’d be better…

Disclosure violations are always hilarious, because it’s such a simple thing, and idiots keep failing to follow the very basic, very well-known rules.

Makes sense. I tend to notice it for things like dialog, which sounds wonky, and drives me a little crazy.

It does, but since most of us watch movies using different sized speakers placed in a rectangle around us, sitting in one particular spot, and not moving at all, it works for that instance. But once you move at all, walking towards the big front speakers, but turned to the right, there will be no speakers in front of…

You play VR and never move your head? Playing with physical surround speakers very quickly gets quite wonky.

I would guess they mean as opposed to being able to play untethered, such as with the Quest 2. Playing without a cord feels MILES better, and I played nearly all of HL: Alyx in 2 hour increments because, you know, batteries. But it was genuinely worth it to take a break in playing to do it without the cord.

It’s not a debate bomb, it’s a stupid thing to say. You are arbitrarily declaring that an RPG is only game that attempts in some way to emulate a TTRPG like Dungeons and Dragons, and have decided to absolutely ignore a HUGE swath of RPGs, such as nearly every single JRPG that doesn’t let you choose a character,…

All hail! For we have found the greatest of orators, the unflappable, the unerring! All others should tremble, because perfection has been found, for the first time in human history! 

So sayeth the paragon of the vocal arts, who has never made a silly mispronunciation before, ever, and thus is unable to have compassion for humans making stress-based mistakes.

I mean, yes, wrestlers are actors. Also, porn-stars are actors. The reason people are surprised is that the requirements of the specific acting job they have are different from the requirements of being a good film-actor. Even more than theater actors, wrestlers are projecting to massive arenas, even if it’s also…

I mean, yes, that is literally what it is an image of. But since it has a vaguely accusatory look, and an exclamation, it works well for: HEY! You just boned me a bit! Which seems a solid compliment.

I always used pointing spiderman when they did a good move. 

I am genuinely interested in how TF they are spending that money. R&D is expensive AF, but did they really have that big a budget on hardware? Or are they just dicking around with software that we aren’t seeing, at an enormous scale? This goes back to Carmack’s departing note, where he criticized the lack of…

Deep breaths, dude. An invitation to reason is not an attack on your person.

Oh please. You’re inventing differences where they don’t exist because of an ideological blind spot. I’m a professor, and my wife is a nurse, and thus our circle of friends are largely other teachers (university and high school mostly) and medical professionals (nurses, doctors, anesthetists, etc). Our entire lives…

Jesus Christ, dude, let’s track the thread, as you seem to be incapable of doing so.