Not sure whether this one would be for me — the art is very nice — but while I’m enjoying our current board game renaissance, I do wonder when we’ll move beyond this FOMO-plagued funding mechanism. Even if you’re someone that keeps up with this stuff, it’s easy to miss a lot of great games or only hear about them…

This is likely yet another stupid design decision that Apple will make, double down on for years and then unceremoniously change without comment, like the MacBook keyboard and numerous others. I think it’s less that they are unaware of how stupid it is than that they can never second-guess any decision they make until…

They might be positioning this as a “guilt tax” or a way to try to monetize viewers who are currently watching for free, but it seems like the longer-term effect of this, if it becomes mandatory, will be to normalize account sharing (from an official corporate POV). Instead of using someone else’s account on the sly,…

For some people, there is no solution, the outrage is the point. And for a lot of others, there is no solution other than “Erase yourself, because white people have had the spotlight for too long. Stop creating, so non-white people can be more represented.”

I mean, in fairness, most of the Trumpists are total pussies as well, it’s just easy to walk in the direction the mob is moving and chant the same things they’re chanting.

According to the NYT piece, “Mr. Kotick negotiated a big premium for investors — Microsoft is paying $95 a share, roughly 45 percent above his company’s stock price before the announcement — and will continue running the company.”

Yep, I’m on board. I’ve seen all of Emmerich’s blockbuster movies, usually in theaters, and he seldom fails to provide silly bombastic fun without the dumbass macho posturing and punching-down humor of a Michael Bay film. I’ve watched The Day After Tomorrow so many times on cable and the scenes where they are…

WB 2021: Sticking it to theaters

I realize I’m not one of the Chosen who gets to comment openly on Gizmodo, but I think this kind of response (outrage, pearl clutching, Serious Discussions About Important Matters) is exactly what they want and expect when they do shit like this. The proper response, officially, is definitely censure and the loss of…

I don’t know whether you’ll even see this given the stupid way Gizmodo handles comments (I’m not stuck in second-class status on Kotaku or the Verge), but... I just got into 40K myself for the first time. I dove in and have already spent way more time and money than I really needed to on it, but I would say for the…

This whole thing strikes me as odd – what did they “fuck up”? You point out that this project would have used the environmentally-friendly Solana blockchain, then you ignore the fact that you just said that to go on to validate the objectors’ supposed concerns about its environmental impact. Nobody is forcing you to…

A friend and I took the plunge into 40K for the first time recently, after being interested in it since high school (which was a long time ago)… we now have the disposable income to blow incredible amounts of money on plastic (and my god, we have), but clearly no more sense. It’s fun so far, and there’s a decent local…

I’m still waiting for these guys to finally man up and deliberately infect themselves with Covid, to prove it’s a hoax/their immune systems will defeat it/etc. And of course when doing so, refusing medical treatment, because you can’t trust doctors. But of course they won’t actually live by their convictions, and the…

More of these guys need to have the courage of their convictions and refuse to seek medical treatment when they inevitably get Covid. Your objections seem pretty hollow if you run back to the medical establishment when you suddenly realize you’re the asshole. I fully support the growing number of clinicians and…

Though I haven’t fully gone back to my pre-pandemic movie habits (1-2 movies a week on average), I’m certainly not feeling skittish about going. I’m vaxxed and masked and I seek out the emptiest theaters possible, but I’m going. The problem is the lack of movies to see. AMC started charging me for A-List again, but the…

Fingers crossed for a Bayniverse crossover.

I couldn’t care less about Bialik or who hosts Jeopardy!, but Bialik is not an anti-vaxxer and most of the other shit I’ve seen floating around about her is basically narrative building and comments taken completely, deliberately out of context.

Completely agree – there’s a lot of performative outrage going on here, as usual when something like this comes up – its actually incredibly easy for something like this to accidentally occur, especially given how primed everyone is these days to see and hear something that causes outrage. One guy thought he heard…

It was always a given that Giz would publish the “OMG it’s how much” complaint article, just as it is a given that they will publish the “Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser changed my life and I want to live there forever” article.

Pretty much any sugary breakfast cereal has gotten worse since the 80s, because they’ve all gone to whole grain now, in addition to reducing sugar in many cases. Alpha-Bits, for instance, were actually pretty good in the 80s, but are garbage now. Plus the concept and movie tie-in cereals aren’t nearly as good.…