This is painful. Pillars of Eternity is downloaded on my desktop and ready to play, but I'll be out of the country for a week starting Saturday and my laptop won't run it...

It does indeed run on Mac:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/291650/

Yes, GPU naming can be very confusing when you're just getting started. It's particularly bad in mobile gaming, because there aren't that many reviews out there for mobile gaming GPUs. If you just want to do a quick comparison, I strongly recommend the GPU Hierarchy at Tom's Hardware:

FYI, "Gamegated ManFortress" is a parody account created to satirize the perceived logical and ethical failings of the proponents of the "Gamergate" movement. The satire often (as in this post) requires some level of familiarity with the whole "Gamergate" debate to make sense, so I can't blame you for missing it here.

Did you also click through to Freya's production diary? The sheer amount of work she put into making that suit is incredible. The fantastic results are a testimony to what happens from putting hard work, advanced crafting techniques, and attention to detail together in pursuit of a clear vision.

Unfortunately, the reason it's still being talked about all the time is that nothing much has changed (at least in the AAA gamespace). But yes, Kotaku does provide fairly regular coverage on diversity issues in gaming.

Of course. Everyone should thoroughly research every $3 purchase that they make in their life, regardless of the time required to acquire and maintain the necessary expertise across the entire array of domains in which your average citizen now purchases goods and services. To suggest otherwise is just crazy.

I bought my current rig approximately a year ago, and it came with Windows 8. The first time I received a 7zip file, it asked me if I wanted to find the correct program to open it on the Windows Store. I went there, the first hit appeared to be a link to the 7zip website, which turned out to be a link to some scam…

I wonder if, in Dubai, conspiracy theorists are saying that this was a US plot in revenge for 9/11. Conspiratorial thinking isn't limited to the US, after all.

But QTEs in cutscenes that basically just pause the video and expect you to hit play before a timer runs out, otherwise the video rewinds to the beginning, is not gameplay.

I believe Lauren is referring to the Cataclysm which utterly wrecked the Dragonlance world many centuries before the original novels were set. The world is definitely more "recovered" than your typical post-apocalyptic setting, but it did suffer through a continent-sinking, ocean-draining, civilization-wrecking…

Wouldn't the increased color density throw off image saturation and luminosity? Of course, if it did so in a predictable way, you could compensate for the impact using a decent image editor prior to printing. . .

Sex strike, perhaps? If it can end the Peloponnesian War, surely it can end a game of League of Legends.

Given Harvard's socioeconomic profile, financial aid policies and massive endowment, I'd wager that most Cantabs aren't having difficulty with student loans.

Don't worry mate. We all get tripped up by Poe's Law every now and again.

There is a certain species of internet denizen so obsessed with "feminists" and "white knights" and "social justice warriors" that they will start spontaneously ranting on little or no provocation. As with temper tantrums generally, it's often best to simply ignore such outbursts.

Your GPU isn't being used above 50%, or your CPU isn't being used above 50%?

Unfortunately, women who are vocal about their interest in the male penis tend to attract a lot of slut-shaming (as opposed to the "well duh" reaction men get when expressing interest in women's genitalia).

This is purely my own opinion, but I think this may be the most prominent philosophical debate in modern feminism - how to conceptualize pornography, prostitution, and (expectations about) women's sexual expression generally.

This picture actually shows an incubation chamber custom-built for an egg that was covertly retrieved in the recent landing on Churyumov–Gerasimenko. If you look carefully, you can see the rapidly developing embryo inside, which is growing into a creature that will form the inspiration for the mid-budget sci-fi/horror…