I think this is such a great example of how Bethesda works. They are obviously putting in a lot of work, but it feels like doing more work for the sake of doing more work, not of making it better. This is why Morrowind was the absolute pinnacle of their games, because all of those systems in conversation with each…

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 don’t think we’ll ever get to seeing eye to eye on Eternals, but I will say that in Shang Chi, the Simu and Awkwafina friendship was absolutely the highlight of the film. They’re both such charismatic actors, and they really had great chemistry.

Absolutely fair. I guess I’m not at all responding to the people that are specifically hoping things will fail (they all suck), but rather to the people who just seem underwhelmed and over it. I have no interest in these things failing, per se, but fewer and fewer incentives to actually go to the theater. 

Fair, and awesome! I loved Season 1, but I still find myself hesitant, and it’s really just from being burned out.  But this is going onto the stack of reasons to finally watch the new season!

So there is absolutely plenty of that, but there is also a good deal of just boredom and exhaustion with the whole MCU. I think the last Spiderman and GotG movies were both flawed, but the only actually GOOD phase 4 and 5 films (black widow was fine, but not needed, Shang Chi had great moments but was also meh,…

Looks fine, but I’m so very very tired of anti-heroes having the villain down the sight of their gun while the villain gives a “we’re more alike than you think speech,” until the anti-hero decides that despite the wave of henchmen they killed on the way here, they’re not a killer (so that the villain can keep coming…

Here are the two very contrasting thoughts in my head

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.