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…

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.

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

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%?

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.

I believe it's possible that you're overestimating your typical American male's adherence to best practices when it comes to informed consent.

You're complaining about encountering judgmental parents... in Park Slope, Brooklyn?

Yes, but only jimmyjams that wouldn't look out of place in a generic sci-fi movie.

Fair enough! I'm not big into overkill myself, but I appreciate the cash and work you and yours put into cutting edge tech. It helps make the tech cheaper and more reliable for us mainstream types.

We're in a bit of an odd space in graphics right now. The top of the line cards (970/980/290X) are close to overkill for most modern games when running at a typical 1080P or 1400P setup. On the other hand, the same cards just don't deliver decent performance when maxing out those same games at 4K. We'll probably need…

Really, Commander?