Also a wave of consolidation is usually prelude to some maaaaajor shit-eatin'.

For no reason I feel the need to mention that the FTC requires sponsored content to be clearly marked, no matter how much the client whines about it.

For my part I’m just amused at people who don’t realize regular, substantial exercise can put your body through some changes no matter how old you are. Of course Pete’s put on muscle! He’s catching Toyotas and flinging his own bodyweight like eight blocks on a daily basis.

Peter got himself that John Romita workout plan.

So what you’re saying is it’s a walking simulator with guns. This sounds a LOT like a walking simulator with guns.

Devs point at your wallet: “Dead or alive you’re coming with me.”

Oh, man, the writing and setting work on this game was just fucking embarrassing. I mean, if they wanted to capture ‘80s SF, for better and mostly for worse, in a big-budget game, they pulled it off, but the result was an unintentional campfest. I would have loved this game when I was a horny 13-year-old in the ‘90s.…

Marketing staff are usually coordinating the outreach to independent sites, and between that, video advertising, and store placement costs, that would account for most of it. 

I can see the comparison because they’re both FPS games with stealth options where raiding bases is one of the core gameplay loops. The details do make them different; FC is never going to let you talk your way out of a fight. 

Honestly, fair comparison, but having played all those games, it was way better than anything in the FC series since 4.

I just assumed they were Scottish.

Looking at this from another perspective, what's being said is that providing parking is becoming increasingly onerous and we need to revisit the idea that space should be allocated to storing thousands of tons of private property without any obligation on the part of the owner of that property to mitigate their…

Eh, honestly no matter where you go the weather is going to suck at least part of the year. Like where I am people are retiring to Florida and discovering that SURPRISE a state that's pretty much 90% swamp and phosphorus mine is relentlessly humid.

“Even if you have all wheel drive”

I mean, I’m gonna be honest, I doubt that the judge or prosector know or care it’s a gaming laptop, and his lawyers have managed to piss off the court in ways that make me wonder if Chump would have been better off pro se. 

I own an ASUS and yeah you can literally turn it off with a keyboard command.

Normally I’d agree with you, but this is a high-stakes case with a lot of media scrutiny. Perception matters. Granted, the judge and the prosecutor are both adults and unlikely to pull any “dignity of the court” shit over a lowrider tacky-ass laptop, but she should know better.

Basically companies need to block the bots, and I’m not really sure why they don’t. All scalpers do is piss off their actual customers and slow down the uptake of new technology. Sony is likely going to be stuck supporting the PS4 for another couple of years largely thanks to PS5 scalpers.

I feel like it’s fairly consistent that some scalper shows up on social media to be a dickhead about basically being a script kiddie but in capitalist and then three to five days later gets his house broken into.

Where I am, Boston area, despite the legendarily terrible drivers and general entitled shittiness (recently one dude at a meeting to fix a local intersection implied an old lady who walked with a cane and who died in a horrible hit and run deserved it because she wasn't in a crosswalk) I have yet to run into this. It…