I just started my first ever playthrough of it a few days ago. On the whole I’m quite enjoying myself so far. I thought it would be OK by now, two and a half years after launch, but it’s one of the buggiest games that I’ve ever played. I only had one crash, but graphical glitches (flashing/flickering/fireflies/etc) are…

Stardates in TNG were relatively consistent, so we know the setting of episodes where they’re mentioned. Encounter at Farpoint was set in February of 2364, while the “present” of All Good Things was set in December of 2370. So just shy of seven years.

Briins Croft said that 90 percent of the Code: Veronica fan remake used existing assets from Capcom’s recent “Remake” games, such as 3D models, animations, and textures.

This game was advertised as a crypto game from the start. Anybody who lost their money backing this game knew what they were getting into and have only themselves to blame.

I don’t get it. GDQ runs don’t need to be perfect or world records, they’re live, and sometimes the most interesting bits are when things don’t go to plan and the runner has to adapt or switch strategies. Ironically these types of events are far more in line with the “exploring and crafting new approaches to…

Why is there no Ryu’s Theme in Ryu’s Theme? Or any memorable melody of any kind? This is terrible, it’s just random music, the forgettable kind that you won’t remember after you finish playing. 

It’s one of the worst upscaling jobs I’ve ever seen in a game, those backgrounds.  The sad thing is that community efforts have shown that modern AI upscaling techniques (on this specific game) look so much better, and it doesn’t necessarily require any additional effort to have used that approach. It just required…

On the iPhone the parental restrictions let you lock various functionality of the phone out at certain times of day, and the kid’s not getting around that with a workaround. I assume Android has similar capabilities.

What are you talking about? The home stuff just merged into the main content, there’s no paywall anywhere (why would there be, the whole business model is the affiliate links), and they seem to be reviewing just as much stuff as ever.

So, Casio has ripped off Vocaloid, then? Out for almost 20 years, it also supports controlling real-time speech synthesis from a MIDI keyboard.

If you think VR is just another way to have motion controls, then you’re severely misunderstanding the medium. Motion control is one of the least important parts of the VR experience. Indeed, many VR experiences don’t use motion controls at all. Instead, the main point of VR is the immersion. There’s a massive…

I met him a handful times over the years, and he helped me out on a professional level once. A small thing that probably only took him a few minutes, but it’s stuck with me. He’ll be missed.

B5 is, in a way, cursed. O’Hare, Doyle, Furlan, Biggs, Furst, Conaway, Katsulas, Choate... All the surviving cast have aged out of the roles too. But as a full reboot, it’s not even certain which characters might return, if any, beyond Sheridan. I don’t want the same characters with the same story anyhow. We already…

B5's budget was, adjust for inflation, around $1.4 million per episode. The Expanse, which I’d argue is around the sort of production quality you’d hope for, is $2-5 million. CW shows seem to typically be in the $2-3 million range, which is quite low budget, but still within the ballpark of The Expanse, so I think…

You do realize that being a nurse is a career, right? Most nurses stay nurses until they retire.

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There aren’t any devices on the market that are comparable in terms of having a high-res screen and playing original carts for all the systems.  Heck, even without the cartridges, I’m not sure there are any other devices as portable on the market that have a screen with that kind of pixel density for playing retro…

I don’t follow... Microsoft bought Zenimax Media, with it all subsidiaries (such as Bethesda). That includes all their studios. “Bethesda the studio” is owned by Microsoft. Whatever games are coming out for competing platforms are just them wrapping up existing contractual obligations and already announced release…

It’s all about transfer speeds and random access times. An affordable somewhat performance-focused 512GB SD card like the Sandisk Extreme is rated for up to 160 MB/s reads, and with an A2 rating, is rated for 4,000 IOPS of random read. So that’s roughly the throughput of a 7200 RPM drive, but with around 50x the…

SteamOS-only, so I’m skeptical. ProtonDB shows that only 42% of the top 1000 games on Steam (and only 30% of the top 10) are either native or Platinum, so Valve saying that it has your “entire” Steam library on it is very misleading. Gaming on Linux is still a suboptimal experience and may end up this device’s Achilles…