Would make a great gift for any hip judges in your life!

Absolutely. In film it makes sense, because the author knows where the audience’s eyes are focused in the frame, and knows exactly where the action is. If it’s important, it will be closer to the foreground, because that’s how shots are staged. In a video game, it’s far far far more likely that the audience might be…

Video games are for everyone, and I’m all in favor of corporations being required to take meaningful measures to warn or educate their consumers about the risks their product presents, so that people can make educated decisions. Just feels like a boilerplate warning on load-up isn’t going to help that, and a…

Looks more like Coach at the top, I think you got the cheeks right the first time!

So it’s just boilerplate that ALL games throw on, but some also (or should also) add splash screens calling it out on startup?

A lot of the grey replies to my post are in this vein, so I want to clarify: if Riley has concerns about the Trans representation in this game, I’m not arguing with him AT ALL about that. I thought the article was wishy-washy and unfocused, just wish he’d picked one and explored it, instead of rambling all over for…

I can’t imagine that they don’t patch in that warning screen as soon as possible; if it made its way into the EULA, it’s not like they’re disputing the risk or ignorant of it, sounds like they just overlooked putting it in at start up as best practice dictates?

The “mixed feelings” in the title come off more as overwhelmed ambivalence and fatigue in the article, than like you truly have had a mixed experience with good and bad game elements. Again and again and again you bring up things that seem subjectively good, and then qualify that by saying they left you cold,…

That repeats a lot of what I’d read, and make mRNA vaccines exciting and cool... which still leaves me wondering why we haven’t been developing flu vaccines for them in the last few years, since (to my limited understanding) supply bottlenecks are such a big challenge to those every single year? Don’t we develop…

Yeah, “No mRNA vaccine has yet made it to market” had me googling to figure out why that would be the case, since I’m not going to watch a video on the subject at work (really, Beth?). Googling around it sounds like the technology isn’t widely used more because of efficacy reasons than any special safety reasons with…

I think I’ve partially played Brotherhood, Black Flag, and Syndicate... it’s hard to keep straight, because I’ve finished none of them. In each instance, some sort of bullshit modern office scene has been the point where I stopped playing and had no interest starting up again. Nobody gives a shit about this modern…

I was staring at the ceiling of my doctor’s office the other day, and it’s that type of foam panel with all the tiny little air bubbles? And really thinking to myself, god I’m glad I don’t have trypophobia right now, this would be really oppressive, there’d just be no getting away from it, it would probably feel like…

Can PS+ subscribers that don’t yet own a PS5 just grab a copy to add to their library of PS5 games, preparing for buying one in the future? I can’t recall there being any sort of gatekeeping/validation with PS+ or the PS Store to check what systems I do or don’t own...

It could just me being a poorly educated consumer, but I know I’ve run afoul before of having a base game before and having purchasing an upgrade for it be more expensive than the sales to purchase an entirely new copy of the game with expansions. Dragon Age Inquisition I think is what caught me up, left a bad taste…

I’ve tried getting into AC a few times over the years (I remember really liking the pirate one a lot while watching a friend play it?), but every single time I bounce off of the headache of trying to figure out which version to purchase. I tend to purchase games impulsively, and if it takes me more than one or two…

My YouTube recommendations have gone to hell since falling down the rabbit hole. I really wish there was a way to toggle a setting where you’re like “Okay, continue to show me videos that you already have correctly guessed I’ll watch, but please don’t FURTHER learn from those that I’m about to, cuz I’m about to binge…

Lawschool tests (in my experience) were almost entirely open book... because our Professors were testing our ability to understand and apply concepts, not regurgitate them. There might have been a dash of “ExamSoft in those days didn’t yet have the ability to police your bodily functions, just your screen” too, but I…

Doobie’s letter is excellent legal writing: concise, clearly stating the issue and their client’s position, making a clear demand, and avoiding any veiled hostility that might derail attempts to negotiate a resolution.

Murray’s response is a garbled mess of incoherent “jokes” which don’t really land. They’re so busy…

DA2 mechanically and aesthetically is bad and you should feel bad for liking it. :)

Here’s Rep. Jim Jordan at a lil’ Trump campaign office opening. How many masks do you spot?