Liking VO or not is a personal opinion so you do you, but

I cannot overemphasize how amused I was watching this dude be so completely wrong and wildly misunderstand basic concepts. You tried, patiently, to re-align him with basic business ideas, but it was to no avail. Thanks for your service to intelligence, though, it was delightful to watch mr. Walker so tragically fumble…

I love it when people who have moved the goalposts absolutely since the very beginning of this conversation get all huffy and try to change the goalposts. Let’s take a trip down memory lane:

I’m copying this as a textbook example of a strawman argument for my students, so thanks. Honda and Hyundai are in DIRECT competition with each other, yes, as they both make essentially the same kinds of cars at essentially the same kinds of prices. This is true also of Mazda, Ford, etc., etc. You saying that they are…

I mean...dude. While you can absolutely make the argument that all people that sell the same kinds of products are in competition with each other, it also misses the forest for the trees. This is like saying that Barnes and Noble is in competition with my local games store. They both sell books and games, but in such…

I’ve run into a few memory leaks that make the game perform worse and worse until a reboot, but it’s honestly been manageable.

Well. I, for one, think Dead Space is better than RE4, but you, for instance, seem to think otherwise. It’s time for a horror remake of the year cage fight.

I have no idea how well this game runs, so I can’t speak about actual optimization (it might be great, it might be terrible), but what you’re seeing here is the game having a higher low-end. They have built the game so that mesh shaders are required, and that simply has a GPU cut-off, where if you don’t have that…

I mean, look, motorcycles are very dangerous, but THAT slide? That is a scraped hand and leg, and easy to walk away from. No luck required.

I mean, sure, but those people are broken anyways, and it’s better to just ignore them ;-). 

The cheap traps thing is interesting, because there are “good” cheap traps (a monster right around a corner that you SHOULD check, but get complacent about) and “bad” ones (mimic shit is tiresome), and some of this is people having that meta-knowledge ignoring the bad ones as if one should just know the thing they…

Great points!

This gets to an interesting thing that happens where I LOVE that these things can happen for the same reason the end of this article talks about it being awesome, but I absolutely LOATHE playing with people in BG3 after these things happen.

It’s a shame, it looked like dumb fun, but there was obviously a lot they were tying to do, and making that all work out isn’t easy.

You’re thinking of different things. you liked the multiplayer mode that came packaged with the game. They weren’t doing the new version of that, they were making a much bigger, stand-alone, money generating iteration that they were hoping to make a hit all on its own.

Would it? They never got anything off of Microsoft. They got this incriminating evidence from a recording made by one of the people after the FBI showed up at his house, having noticed the trades: “[they can’t get the 360 chat recordings] Viggiano allegedly told Salamone in a recording made by the latter after both…

Oh lord, not Obsidian. A new KOTOR game? Yes, Obsidian, but trying to make the old one look great and perform well? Nooooooo

This is no surprise at all, but I’m still sad about it. A KOTOR remake would be amazing. Alas, ‘tis not to be.

Eh, it is and it isn’t: don’t fail the mission accidentally tells you that something happens, but...is saying that something can happen in a videogame the level of spoilers we’re worried about?

I mean, A) you shouldn’t be able to get this until like 20 hours in, it’s a bug, and B) I got absolutely wounded quickly even with it on a number of planets. It’s solid, but kind of middling.