I started in high school and carried through college, kept it as a side job while I was trying to make a career work, and then mostly worked evening and weekends once I had a stable job until my finances balanced out. There were positives to it, and I enjoyed most of the people I worked with and the customers, but the…

I worked there from 2006 to 2014 and went from $5.25 an hour to $8 an hour. I moved to CA and got bumped to $13 an hour for year, but when I moved back to FL they tried to drop my to $7.50 and I quit. Every year that they gave me pay raises, it was always a few weeks before the minimum pay rose and swept the bottom…

When I use virtual desktop it pops a warning that says “Your device isn’t hardwired to your router. This will increase latency.” I get about 40 - 50 ms latency, which is playable with some games, but made me sick with others, like Alyx. 

As am I. Maybe it’s someone else entirely who got plastic surgery to look like Kiryu? 

I use virtual desktop, but my gaming laptop doesn’t have an Ethernet port, so I have just enough lag to make me sick while playing. The Link Cable works well enough though. 

I like the Quest quite a bit, but I don’t know if I’d want this for an upgrade. So many games just skip the Quest store and I have to plug into a laptop to play them on Steam anyway. Unless they announce a low-latency streaming to Steam, or that all Rift games are coming to Quest, I’ll probably skip this and get the…

Adios Ari! I will miss your fun and detailed previews of games and *great* Halo takes. You convinced me to get Cursed to Golf! …which I hated.

I’m willing to bet that the purpose of this is to peacock for the EC so that they can make an argument for a consent decree that CoD has to release on PlayStation for as long as Microsoft continues to produce the game.

Came here to say the same thing. Hard to call it “plunging in” when you basically created the concept.

I think this was brought up in Apple v Epic. It was basically that Sony does co-marketing agreements and requires that games they fund not appear on a competing subscription services. It was part of how Apple defended their pricing structures. 

That… makes a lot of sense. Poinpy wasn’t there when I first looked, so I assumed they couldn’t be found there, but it was the same day that game launched so maybe it just wasn’t up yet. Still hate the Netflix app, but at least I don’t have to use it now. 

They have the worst discoverability of any platform. I never open the Netflix app of my phone because I have it on a dozen different devices where it’s a better viewing experience, so I’m already unfamiliar with the layout. Then, you have to scroll through endless recommended categories to get to the games one, which…

This is such a bizarre choice. They had 18 months between the Quest 1 and Quest 2, and it’s been almost 22 months since the second headset dropped in October of 2020. Why take the PR hit when they could have just ceased production on the Quest 2, introduced a minorly upgraded Quest 3 as soon as they could get them off…

This was my absolutely favorite part of BBS. Do any other games, like Model Simulator, capture the relaxing, puzzle aspect of building these? I wish there were more than three models.

Interesting. This game has been completely off my radar since I despised the last one, but I guess I’ll at least check out the demo. 

I had a similar experience with the proration. I went to pay $120 for the year and was offered to pay $9.54 for the next two months, which I took. I got routed through three separate web windows before they finally let me pay though, but I got there in the end. I was able to look through the alphabetized list of games…

I couldn’t stand Fire Emblem Warriors, it just felt like such a waste of time, but I loved Persona 5 Strikers because it kept all the themes of the game, expanded on the characters I loved, and had a fun story. Hoping this is more of the latter than the former. 

Depending on how you define “major”, I don’t think the release of Grounded should be ignored. Pentiment is also first party, but admittedly looks much smaller. 

I had a feeling that Giantbomb is where Jeff Grubb was going to announce he was moving to after leaving GamesBeat, and I think this makes it all the more likely. 

I have a feeling we’ll get a few surprise drops on June 12th…