What’s nice, though, is that if your phone supports HDMI out (whether over usb-c or lightning), you can Bluetooth pair an Xbox one or series controller, load up the app and play on a tv or monitor at up to 1080p. Works great, provided you have a decent internet connection. 

They have tons of great games on Xbox platforms. Your comment is fanboy nonsense.

Yes, but given the site we’re on, that’s because you’re a nerd. And I don’t say that with derision, but respect. I’m as nerdy as they come myself :D. But we’re not the average consumer, nor even the average gamer. Most people want to plug it in, turn it on, and play. Consoles make that easy, PC’s don’t (and don’t even…

This is a nice little snip, but I haven’t read the script. However, ANYTHING can be made to sound terrible if you alter the context, and odds are good few of us here know the context, given the script was never produced, and most people aren’t likely to sit around reading unmade screenplays.

It’s not about dismissing or excusing anything. It’s about understanding that human beings are complex creatures, and dropping any of them into a simple “good person” or “bad person” box on the basis of one singular aspect of their identity is intellectually lazy at best, and a vile step on the path to dehumanizing…

The thing I notice is that a lot of people seem unable to grasp that two seemingly contradictory things can—and often are—true about a person. Whedon is, by many accounts, an asshole behind the scenes. He has also, by literally millions of accounts, given visibility, representation, hope and courage to women and men…

The thing about serialized storytelling in television, and especially in Star Trek, is that if you do it as “A ten hour movie!”, you’re doing it wrong. Tv shows are a distinct format from movies, and shouldn’t follow the movie model, for the same reason that movies should not adopt the training times of seasons of…

How about a Picard series that DIDN'T have an Earth with slavery based on Data knockoffs, or p people living in trailers in the middle of the desert on EARTH, a place Star Trek has ALWAYS regarded as having no poverty. 

Star trek was NEVER about social justice in the sense an SJW proposes. Instead, it was about an idea that humans would learn to deal with each other in a more thoughtful way, and approach problems primarily through the application of reason and compassion rather than blasting people to smithereens from the word go. It…

Current Star Trek is ANYTHING but hopefully or optimistic, much less thoughtful. Picard was a dumpster fire, and that’s being generous. The closest Discovery has come to a good season is the second one, and that was thanks to spock and Pike being interesting characters.

There is a tendency among people, from pretty much any walk of life you can imagine, to think, “Hey, X works for me, and I like it, so therefore X will work for EVERYONE, and they’ll like it. And if they don’t, something is wrong with them”.

I have a powerful PC connected to a 55" 4K, but I still game on Xbox. The PC is for getting work done.

Not easily and not well. The Windows 10 UI isn’t built for ease of finding games with a controller. It’s built for productivity workloads.

There are a number of reasons.

Your point does not stand. We can learn from suffering, that’s true—and we should—but that doesn’t make suffering good or noble or moral. It just makes it a shitty part of life that we can use as fuel to learn better ways of living as we move forward.

That guy is an attention seeking idiot. 

Children’s issues are not what we’re discussing here. Further, I know INTIMATELY about abusive relationships. I spent most of my life in them until a little over a decade ago. I learned—as it sounds like you need to—that my sense of “normal” at the time was broken and wrong. “Normal” meant tolerating abusive people in…

I literally have met ZERO people who don’t understand which is which. Not. One.

Yes, that’s 18 politicians. That’s not the entire group, nor is it even close to being a representative sample of the constituency. And for whatever it’s worth, Pence himself rejected that argument and refused to do it. As creepy as I find that fucker, that’s a mark in the positive column for character.

In many ways, they are. Left and right alike are both obsessed with forcing their version of Utopia on everyone else. It just turns out that right now, the GOP has proven that they care more about loyalty to party than they do about reason (which I’ve said for decades now).