Brink was my introduction to the “Splash Damage” type.  I liked it a lot, but, on console at least, it had networking issues and lost its playerbase before they were ever fixed.

It’s worth pointing out that this game is the beginning of a long chain of titles where Splash Damage iterated on the same concept of asymmetric objective class based FPS games. If memory serves, Enemy Territory was directly ported to Quake, then many of the concepts appeared again in Brink with Parkour added, then…

Presumably, the accident disrupts their attempts to get Alejandro, the friend who passed out on the beach, to the hospital, and he dies, in addition to any occupant of the other car.

For the first two thirds of this, I was convinced it was a parody post.

Have you ever played Manual Samuel? That concept is part of the core game mechanics.  (You have to breathe, blink, and do everything else manually)

That is a fascinating critique (in the first linked article, I don’t actually see a video) but I came away with the opposite view.

Only one person can claim the $10,000 from someone who violates the law per act that violates the law. That is in there.

I think I understand why that is the minimum risk maneuver, according to those regulations.

Relevant to the larger discussion of rap covers, there is this excellent video.

The story is that there was a miscommunication at his label, and they approved it thinking he was OK but he didn’t actually know about it, or possibly he approved it but didn’t remember/realize the implications.

Don’t forget Boomers, who watched him in Roots.

My memory of the original pitch for Fortnite was “build bases (forts) during the day to defend your group against zombies and monsters at night.”

It’s TV, not a movie, but I finally sat down to watch Counterpart a few months ago, only knowing the very basics of its parallel universes premise.

What happened?

And the Excelsior is a Battle Barge used by the Ultramarines chapter of space marines. It is a space ship, not a space plane, and is what the Space Marines of Warhammer are said to be riding around in.

It’s because everyone else calls them space ships, not space planes, and Marines travel on ships.

I get the wish for a non-boring color, but why not just keep aside enough to get whatever you buy in silver or beige put in a really nice, high quality, full wrap in whatever color you can imagine?

There has been a 107% lap time qualifying rule on and off in F1. I believe it is currently on the books, but not often enforced.

I suspect it will be in this weird liminal looter-shooter/BR/survival crafter space that games like Escape From Tarkov, The Hunt: Showdown, and Scavengers are staking out.

Subscribing to Game Pass gives you the rights to play any game that is on Game Pass right now. When a game leaves Game Pass, it’s gone, and you can’t play it any more, even if you downloaded it while it was there.