You could plow through AC 5 with quad machine guns more or less, but that’s an outlier.

There are only two boss fights in the game that require a specific build, or specific parts to complete. The first is the tutorial helicopter. The second is a near-endgame boss which requires you to equip 1 specific weapon to break its shield (its a lore thing) and to do a certain amount of DPS during the final phase…

ACs are much faster and agile than Titans, generally. Even the IPS Northstar or the melee Titan were relatively slow, lumbering machines that could be engaged by infantry.

ACs are canonically designed around Core Theory - a school of warfare that effectively seeks to replace combined arms warfare with a single…

If they ever break ground on the project they’ll lay some utilities and roads and then investors will start to pull out when it goes over schedule and over budget.

Fewer than 25% of CEQA challenges are housing projects. The vast majority of housing projects challenged under CEQA move forward with improvements that either benefit folks living there already, or with mitigation for environmental impact. The notion that CEQA is the big boogeyman killing housing in CA is bullshit…

Maybe, but for most people, I think there’s maybe just an expectation that when we see low budget indie games pulling off global circumnavigation a decade ago, and when Bethesda’s bossman himself does an (evasive in retrospect) tweet that indicates you can do that, it’s a bummer to find out you maybe can’t.

And this is…

Alas it was not until I grew up and got a job where I had to wear a suit that I learned how easy it is to get into any sort of convention event if you just act like you’re supposed to be there and move with purpose.

The mancannons in the Nezerec raid have an acceleration factor tied to your frame and or refresh rate. The better your game is performing, the faster the game thinks you are moving and the more damage you take when you land. That whole raid is RIDDLED with progress blocking or flawless ruining bugs.

When I was a kid, I got an E3 badge from a family member and got to roam the floor for a few hours, and it wasn’t until I got home and saw devs posting photos online that I realized it was the highest tier access badge, and that I could have gone into the demo rooms for games not open for play on the general floor.

Call of Duty is primarily a multiplayer game and most of the US does not have access to the bandwidth or data caps to stream Call of Duty regularly at a reasonable speed for a reasonable length of time. Microsoft loses less than you think. By the time it expires, maybe the awful state of American internet speeds and…

Yeah. If the game is successful, there will be ways to play it online regardless of the efforts of the big rat’s lawyers, but the rat has fuck you money and can just kill you in litigation you can’t afford to spend years contesting.

Yeah, plus many of the DLC classes for VT2 felt like experiments and proof-of-concept tests for ideas to be incorporated in Darktide. It had me hopeful we were going to get a game that wouldn’t need to relearn all the lessons of their past 2 releases.

I think it’s the fact that the game was clearly not ready for primetime despite multiple delays and major systems were cut or reworked very late in the development cycle. We know for a fact that the entire gear and talent system worked fundamentally differently in development builds, with screenshots depicting missing…

Calling it a campaign is generous. The actual missions have some cool storytelling in the dialogue but there’s nothing to string them together and no culmination of any sort of narrative the way VT2 did with your trek into Norscan lands.

Remember - there is literally a cutscene where you are ordered to report before…

Nah, they definitely do. The most valuable thing a user can do for them as a company is to start a relationship with a hinge match and uninstall the app, because every single time someone asks that couple how they met, unless they lie, the answer is going to be Hinge. Every time a website writes an article like this,…

Having tried OKC, Tinder, Bumble, that weird bagel one, and even Feeld, Hinge is the only one where I both consistently match with people, don’t get swamped with bots, and receive a decent volume of unsolicited likes. It *is* bizarre, but it is what it is.

I can second that - being unapologetically honest about the things I am passionate about after a string of relationships where there was always something a given partner was scornful of was a big help when it came to increasing the volume of likes and matches I received.

Some random perspective as a Hinge user who feels like I at least temporarily gained the blessing of The Algorithm - the opposite of Anthony’s experience basically:

I’m pretty much oblivious to flirting and for a good chunk of my life, did not consider myself terribly attractive. I’m a lanky, physically and socially…

It’s so weird that Vermintide 2 gave them a near perfect roadmap to success with this game and they chewed it up and swallowed it so they could release a title with a fraction of the content.

In the context of BG3 where it feels like combat arenas more often than not feature bridges, second floors, chasms, spider pits, and all manner of horrible things to land in or get yeeted into or through, eldritch blast’s value goes way up. Being able to one-shot an enemy with 155 HP on demand will save you pretty…