Look, dude, are we talking about a novel, or Heinlein’s personal politics? If we are talking about the novel, we have only the novel to discuss, and what it says and “Heinlin later explained” doesn’t mean anything. Authorial “intent,” especially as given as a rebuttal to criticism the novel received, can kiss my ass. I…

The JOBS act allows for a million dollars of crowdfunding from non-accredited investors. This wasn’t true when fig started, but it was in the pipeline, and they made use of it after. It is, obviously, of limited use, as that kind of money doesn’t do much.

Right, right, there is absolutely nothing fascist about restricting the right to vote or hold office to the people that have gone through the government brainwashing program, and the novel definitely doesn’t glorify fighting and the infantry as the heart of the moral philosophy. It isn’t like the protagonist’s…

Yup, a long time ago.

It’s actually a little bit more annoying than that, because on the screen where they show that 2%, the other stats we can see are 28.5% of “Films from top 10 distributors in 2022 contained LGBTQ characters” and 10.6% “Of all series regulars on primetime scripted broadcast series in 2022-2023 television seasons were…

I’m confused, where is the flying cow? Isn’t that a requirement?

Oh, so...uh, you really can’t learn then. You keep making the exact same failures. While yes, when you play a game you play “as” the character, and, yes, “it’s a goddamn videogame,” but you keep treating these SIMULTANEOUSLY as if they are both true (despite being diametrically opposite), and that ONLY they can be…

I appreciate that you come at this from two different angles (good for you!) and still manage to WILDLY miss the point.

Honestly, smart. Sony has a huge lead in consoles, and the exclusives simply aren’t bringing over that many people. Delay it a year and the people who would get an xbox will still migrate, and the people that won’t switch will pick up a year-old game for $70 on PS5. It’ll probably help (a little) the next time they do…

Loving the big-yikes energy here.

I mean, that success WILL matter, but remember that this game has been in development for a long time, so we will see more devs/publishers put out SP games in the next 2-4 years that are a response to things like BG3, then one will tank, and some MP title will be huge and you’ll see games responding to that, etc., etc.

What’s wild is that if they had just put out a 15-20 hour game, I would give them my money and enjoy the hell out of it, but because they’re trying to do this live service nonsense, I’ll do what I did for Avengers, which is wait for it to drop to $20, play through the campaign and they’ll have wasted a hundred million…

Do they really think they can just fold her in to the cast?

No, it’s an uncorroborated claim from someone with firsthand knowledge. While that isn’t the same as being a fact, it is also very different from being a rumor.

It was STRIKING how great Metro Awakening looks (visually), immediately followed by Legendary Tales, which looks like a generic PS2 hack and slash ported to VR. It was a side-by-side comparison of the highs and lows of VR development.

There is a lot to admire in the game (while blunt and manipulative, the white phosphorus bit is a fantastic critique of COD MW’s jingoistic embrace of military tech), and if it had come out 5 years before Bioshock (a game that is already a better adaptation of Heart of Darkness), rather than 5 years after, I would…

Thanks for the recommendation! We don’t read this, though it would go very well, as instead I have them read excerpts from Keogh’s Killing Harmless, and then we move on.

Woof, that is a dark thought. I hope you play more shooters, friend, as this isn’t a very good narrative.

That’s a tough question, to be honest. The 4070ti super is definitely a better card, and if you’re looking to do 4k, you frankly need every single ounce of muscle you can get, but it’s also only an incremental improvement over the non-super (the biggest upgrade being more RAM, tbh)—which you can get open box from bestb…

The easy answer is that the quality difference between literally any 50" TV and an OLED is massive. All 50" TVs are in the “budget” category, and OLED is in the premium category.