I built my PC on a budget about three years ago, and Destiny 2 runs like liquid butter. I haven’t noticed any slowdown at all so far, and though I’m not actually sure what my graphics settings are (I left them at the default when I started the game and then never thought to look at them again), it looks great.

If you had your druthers, we’d live in a world without Sherlock or Elementary; no RDJ Holmes movies or Great Mouse Detective; no Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce radio dramas and films.

Because cultural junk and gender stereotypes, until pretty recently, pretty firmly espoused the idea that ‘scientific’ stuff was for boys, not girls.

Yeah (though I think Abed moved past the more toxic parts of that relatively quickly).

I honestly don’t understand how anyone can misunderstand the show to such an extent that they think Rick is meant to be admirable. I started rewatching Community recently, and Rick is Jeff Winger without the charisma and Pierce Hawthorne without the self-awareness.

I can honestly say, this is one of the best purchases I’ve ever made (though I got a slightly higher end model with a color changing display).

I can honestly say, this is one of the best purchases I’ve ever made (though I got a slightly higher end model with…

Wasn’t that before wand users got auto-attack? I’m sure that was fun, manually clicking your Wand icon for entire phases of fights.

Economies of scale, I believe, generally only work on the manufacture of items, not the design and conception of them.

Because the only thing Valve cares about is how much money is flowing into their accounts. If they weren’t making enough from this kind of shovelware to make it worth the PR hit, they’d stop it. They are, though, so they won’t.

I heard the puck physics in Glitch Simulator 2019 are truly game changing though.

I didn’t want to get too in the weeds in my first comment, but I don’t think it’s an either/or situation. I think we need to be willing to pay more than $60 for real AAA experiences, but being open to smaller scope games that are priced accordingly would also help. Thankfully, it seems like that’s something that’s…

Yeah. I’ve suggested elsewhere that, if we want a healthy industry, we need to accept price hikes on games, but that’s probably a non-starter for most people.

The co-op was cool, and the crafting was well-done, but belonged in a different game. The microtransactions never bothered me, since even on higher difficulties resources were plentiful (which speaks to the main reason crafting didn’t belong in the game, but whatever).

That $60 price point is also only a ceiling. When’s the last time you bought a game at release for full price? We’re so conditioned to massive Steam sales that it feels like a ripoff to buy a game at more than 50% off. Why buy it now when I can wait a month and pick it up for pennies on the dollar?

Here’s the problem. Game pricing is all wrong, and it’s all wrong on a couple of fronts.

Man, if the Smash community thinks that Nintendo partnering with them officially WOULDN’T mean an end to serious competition on GC hardware and software, I’ve got a series of increasingly old derelict bridges to sell them.

Yeah, and how many times do we see people around us making mistakes without learning from their example? Most people, unfortunately, need to make their own mistakes to learn from them.

Well, Sonic CD’s worth keeping.

Grave Encounters is so much better than a perusal of its Netflix description makes it seem. It really looks, at first glance, like yet another Paranormal Activity ripoff, but it does its own thing and it does it wonderfully. It’s more meditative than Grave Encounters, but if you want a creepy movie set in an abandoned…

It seems like a lot of the issues with Destiny 2 can be summed up as ‘why are they repeating mistakes that were fixed in Taken King and Rise of Iron’. Weren’t the expansions largely the responsibility of the Live Team, while the main dev team rolled straight on from D1 to D2?