Fair enough. I guess I don't see it as avoidable since I like so many Ubisoft games, but if you only want one or two then it's bound to seem like an irritation. Between Steam, Uplay, Origin, GMG and others, I guess they'd all benefit if we had some kind of single passport application for all of their untidy crap :)

It's not as if it's some massive resource hog or something. It shouldn't be there, but since it is, I don't understand why it's such a problem. Just a launcher.

GTX770 is definitely the best balance of money to performance right now. But, as you said elsewhere, you can have a fantastic experience with lesser hardware.

You will not need an 8-core processor. The CPU won't even be especially important. Reasonable CPU + half-decent GPU, that's all. Black Flag looks fucking miraculous on a GTX650Ti, and if you look around you'll see that's a port that's considered pretty sloppy. If Watch Dogs is as "bad" as that, it's going to look this…

They have got the Ivory Tower/Reflections team making The Crew though, so maybe they're building up expertise there before spreading it to the other studios.

I wanted a new gen. I'm a PC player who buys quite a lot of ported games. Without new gen, I'd be looking forward with some trepidation to Assassin's Creed: Comet instead with interest to both Comet and Unity. I wouldn't have The Crew coming this year either, nor the new gen Batman. The new gen consoles raise the…

It's variable. The big money comes from the increments built up from what they call "pre-roll" ads, which are the TV-style short videos before the real video that you probably never see anymore (assuming you're an AdBlock user). It's impossible to predict how many of those your video will be allotted, as far as I…

Well hush my mouth.

I must have got mixed up between Avengers and X-Men. Oops. (And Daredevil apparently, but I guess nobody cares about that anymore!) I thought with Fox Kids having run the Captain America cartoon that it was part of their partnership rights, but I guess that's just a licence then!

The most infuriating thing about this is that it's just corporate warfare anyway. Noah is Paramount Pictures, whereas Captain America 2 is Marvel Studios, which is Fox. So Fox News is lying about religious outrage and inappropriate mass-murder to Christians, in order to persuade them to take their kids to see Captain…

Using Chrome? Go to Extensions and add Hola Better Internet. It adds a tiny icon up to the right of your address bar. Click that, select the country you want to pretend to be from while using the current site (so be on this page first!) and select "US". It will open a tunnel and ta-dah, video!

Yeah, only a successfully "flagged" video loses its monetisation, but nothing about these ruined tech vids violates YT policy.

Yeah. You still have to be decent at promoting your videos, I guess, and then it's feasible for 5-10 such videos to easily cover you for a year (given that ad revenue is a little unpredictable — pre-roll ads make the most money, but you don't know how many of those you'll get).

As I said to someone else above, they're not losing any money.

Not for no reason: for profit. It's a terrible thing to do, and an awful squandering of resources and manufacturing waste, but anyone doing this is making a simple calculation of views, revenue and initial cost. The video in the article isn't even the original, and it's got well over 600,000 views so far. On a…

Please tell me it was:

Yeah, I'm sure that part of it. It won't just be the big farming states either; I'm aware that national polls measuring public opinion on ending subsidies always show a lot of opposition, but I think that's because people tend to think it's a no-brainer ("of course you shouldn't remove support from struggling…

It's not a conspiracy theory, it was an economic tactic. It's also been used in the other direction, in the first half of the 20th century, when it suited the govt and industry's needs to persuade farmers to reduce crop yields. It's just a shame that the diets of consumers suffered in the process of this overlong…

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It's partly about cheap production, but also about the US food industry needing to find products in which to hide corn syrup, which it turn is a cheap way to hide surplus corn, which US farmers have been subsidised to overproduce in recent decades, partly in order to help the US government fix the global price of…