Xbox cloud gaming works way, way better than Sonys offering. Destiny 2 is one of the titles I had no problems with, although I cannot speak for PvP - I don’t do that.

I’ve played several AAA games, including Destiny 2, that are totally smooth. You’re talking about a different services and your router might have bufferbloat. For local streaming I’ve done that via Steam and AMD and that’s also smooth (though video is still obviously compressed so fidelity isn’t 100% but is better…

How in the hell is hacking (a crime) and leaking stuff illegally going to “foster more disruption and competition”?

So the kids are still saying pwned these days? I guess that makes me feel a little less old! 

I was gonna say the same thing: I won’t pretend that I spend money with Bungie because they’re not actually a horrible place to work; I do it because they make a game I really enjoy. But still, it’s nice not to have to avoid spending money on a game I really enjoy because they’re a horrible place to work.

From what I can tell Bungie actually seems to have a decent reputation among current and former workers, employees a fair number of women and POC, and is trying to get things right even despite the occasional fuck up. Good for them. 

Maybe there is something I am not seeing here but... when a company has to fit a $18 million fine into its budget, a big chunk, if not all of the $18 million will be cut from existing items and it would be surprising that the executives deciding on this will target their own salary. So, basically, in one way or…

Please shut up with this pearl-clutching nonsense. Minors are a small part of Twitch’s demographic, if you ever bothered to fact check this talking point. Additionally, making lewd or sexual content is as much selling your body as any job ever is. Get over your hangups, lewd Twitch streamers are still operating within…

Man, I was already stoked about Isaiah’s potential at Kotaku, but that is significantly elevated now that I know he’s a Hunter main who makes it a point to style on the other classes.

There may have also been weed involved, and when playimg with the gf and another couple, a systematic loss of clothing (one article per death, socks count as one).

In the process of playing it myself. Getting by some of the crunch with old 3.5 knowledge of how things generally work. And god there is sooo much crunch to keep track of...but I do have some suggestions for surviving it.

I think the answer to this question is a bit nuanced. I think the game is definitely still fun. But what isn’t fun is coming back to the game, after having been at the peak, been able to play all the content and enjoy it - only to find yourself faced with a weeks long grind to get back there, because you dared to take…

Which a) makes total sense to me, and b) is actually hilarious from my perspective, because my ‘game that I enjoyed at launch but now find completely impenetrable after time away’ is... No Man’s Sky!

That’s not what I’ve read. I have seen some data that suggests certain games even load faster on the expandable drive. I don’t want to go look for the article now, but that information should be readily accessible via google.

glad to see these finally available, it only took *checks notes* Jesus 10 months!

Sony. Folders. How have you had to add folders after-the-fact on three consecutive console releases? 

Is the update that you can get one in stores now?

Those Cheetos-scented assholes only care about “historical accuracy” when it suits their agenda. “It’s historically-accurate” wasn’t good enough for these circus-rejects when woman and black men where included in Battlefield, but funny how it becomes important when there’s a character with melanin in their skin.

To be clear, I wasn’t implying you hire and lawyer to go over every EULA, and at this point, any nefarious EULA would draw negative attention and hurt product sales, so there is mostly standard language.

I was just clarifying that “buying software” doesn’t give you a right to reverse engineer it, with one legal…

Of course, courts are also split on whether shrink-wrapped EULAs should be enforceable in the first place. Consider this: How can a company legally justify denying you access to something after you purchased it? There is a reason companies almost always sue under DMCA rather than breach of contract.