“Canon is a fool’s stricture” - wow, what a shitty hot take. This sentiment and statement is why I barely read anything on IO9 any more. Well, that, and the automatic assumption that anyone who cares about canon is a racist.

Nobody believed the orange idiot would win. He pretty much didn’t - he lost the popular vote, and got anywhere only thanks to Putin. By the time even his candidacy was likely, it was already clear that Moscow Mitch would block anybody and do anything for power. He blocked Garland for a year.

21:9 ultrawide monitor with GSync. It makes games far more immersive. For me it is even more immersive than a VR headset. It’s probably the biggest improvement for my gaming system that I’ve ever made - more than any video card, memory, or system update. I realize it’s expensive, but you can get one these days for the…

OK, this is the second post I’ve seen on this group of websites that says pretty much nothing, and yet talks about SW.  Did a general order go out to the authors to write something - anything - about the new SW movie?

But-but Captain Marvel is the first female superhero movie in history!  And the most successful!  And the greatest ever!

If you are not a treckie, feel free to try it now. If you are already a treckie, RUN! Because discovery is a POS that doesn’t care about history, continuity, lore, established characters, etc. Basically, it’s the TLJ of StarTrek.

This sounds like a dumb rule. Words have meaning. Rarely used words mentioned above often have a lot of secondary meaning tied to them.

That’s retarded and makes me want to play the game less, not more. I hope somebody is able to hack this in, or there is a limited “realism” mod that allows you to turn on fall damage and makes the game harder.

Yup, and they are not the target demographic. My guess is that you will be able to pay $10 a month subscription or something, and be able to play anything from a library of games. And/or add a game for a buck or something. This would greatly increase the number of gamers without eating into the console sales (much).

No, not really. Since you can stream it over a cell phone, there is very little hardware that you need for this. You may get an equivalent to Amazon FireStick or something, or it could be an app on the FireStick itself. Controller support may be difficult though.

The difference is that this doesn’t need to make all that much money. MS has deep enough pockets and enough datacenters to keep this going until the business is started. Plus while many customers don’t have the bandwidth to take advantage of this offer, they can still by consoles. It’s an add-on to the main Xbox…

Speed of the network is not an issue - if you can stream video, then you have enough bandwidth.  Latency is the issue.

Yup, that’s why MS is opening a new datacenter every couple of weeks. This won’t be for everyone, but even if all you have is an ancient Chromebook or a cellphone, you might still be able to play the new game. Especially if latency in-game is not that much of a factor - depends on the game, of course.

This service is for people who don’t have the money or don’t want to buy an Xbox to play some game.  You don’t need much bandwidth since this is streaming of video and audio - IE same as Netflix.  The only limiting factor is network latency, and that is a problem, but things are getting better.  Plus MS is constantly…

Unless you can mod a shotgun or a tank into the game, I am not interested. If it’s Rocksteady after all, I will also go with Batman’s gadgets and abilities.

Yes, I think the sea missions in AC3 were better than in AC4. Sure, there was no singing, but wind direction mattered much more. The waves were also bigger and provided an interesting vertical challenge in targeting. There were more restrictions to the battles.

WTF? Not to scale. ISD is 1.6 km. Executor SSD is 19 km. SSD should be about 12x larger than the ISD - doesn’t look like it.

“Bulls-eye in my T16 back home” is in the movie. The explanation expands on that. Yes, it was unusual that Luke could pilot, but he was not shown to be the best pilot at the drop of a hat - he appeared to be competent, that’s about it. Never in the movies did we see him pilot all that well. He was also crap at a bunch…

Depends on the Superman story. In some he is absolutely a Gary Stew - where he is smart and brilliant at everything.