So what I’m getting is that if you haven’t played Cyberpunk 2077 yet but you’re curious, the best thing to do would be to wait until the Phantom Liberty patch changes a bunch of stuff about the base game, play the base game, then decide if you want to buy Phantom Liberty?

I confess, I’m not entirely clear on what a Battle Pass even is. So I’m certainly not likely to buy one.

If a game isn’t something that prioritizes twitch aiming, fast action, and rapid camera motions isn’t “better visual fidelity” preferable to “higher frame rate”.

Yeah, this was an idea that plausibly came to Frito-Lay from someone whose cultural cuisine was extremely familiar with like “limes”.  Since IIRC, spicy cheese puffs back in the day were not tangy.

Wasn’t the actual innovation of the Flamin’ Hot Cheetos not that cheese pairs well with heat (which was well-known), but that corn pairs well with acid?

I think the thing the article fails to state is that Instant Pot got bought out by a Private Equity Firm (in this case Cornell Capital) and the way this usually works is that the firm takes out loans to buy a company, then saddles the company with that debt. We’ve seen the same thing hollow out bigger brands like Toys…

I mean, Brian Fargo’s Bioshock Infinite is probably a lot more interesting than Ken Levine’s Bioshock Infinite.

I mean, as a gorilla he would have tiny genitals so Kong wouldn’t really need pants.

Given that DC comics likes to do its retcons with big events (like a Crisis) probably the easiest version of this sort of thing for film audiences to follow is “the Flash went back in time and changed some stuff” because basically everybody is familiar with Back to the Future and the Terminator.

II’m going in having seen Batman 89 and having read a bunch of Flash comics. I think I’ll be fine.

I managed to wait on Skyrim until the “discount edition bundled with all the DLC” was available. This one is going to be tougher, I fear.

Yeah, I’m pretty much not going to want to see a movie in 3D unless that movie is either made by James Cameron, or was a stop-motion animation film (since Coraline made even better use of the technology than Avatar.)

Given the range of different skin tones Michael Jackson sported in life, how exactly do we cast *anybody* to portray him? Is this just a “you have to cast multiple people” thing?

I like Assassin’s Creed, but I don’t think I’m going to play either of these. VR gives me a really bad headache, and I don’t really like playing games on my phone. But that’s okay, liking one version of a thing doesn’t mean I have to like all versions of it. I can like Diablo 2 and Diablo IV without having to like…

Like this may look different from a “party that cares about markets” position, but just as someone who buys and plays video games sometimes this is puzzling.  Having never bought a Call of Duty means I probably do have more games made by each of Rare, Bethesda, Double Fine, InXile, and Obsidian than I do games by made…

It’s still somewhat puzzling to me why this is getting so much more attention than all the other acquisitions Microsoft’s Xbox division has made in the last few years. Is it purely that Activision-Blizzard is simply much larger than Rare, Mojang, Zenimax, et al. or is this just a “straw that broke the camel’s back”…

NIL deals are worth whatever the two parties can agree on- they have no inherent value. If people don’t take $500 from EA, EA will either offer more, or just not put that player in the game. EA will be fine if nobody at all signs the NIL deal, because previous versions of NCAA did not have player names (but we all…

You’re pretty clearly confusing “an employment contract” (which is how corporations figure out how much they’re paying employees, including executives) and “a license to use your name, image, and likeness.”

I think the problem with trying to not abstract “things are far apart in space” is that if you want to do it without warping or gates or relays or something, then you’re going to be lying about how close together things are instead which isn’t obviously preferable.

I confess, I still can’t tell the difference between 60fps and 30fps. I get that some people care about this, and I hope that their games run at the frame rate they prefer.