Splitting water takes A LOT of electricity. Especially at an industrial scale. Which is literally the least difficult problem to solve with hydrogen.

What’s truly insane is that there are huge numbers of people who genuinely believe this. Back in the 90s there was this belief that all these “hyperrealistic” video games were “murder simulators” and were breeding a generation of amoral psychopaths. This toxic bullshit is still alive even though thirty years later the…

It’s really difficult to square this logic with what is presumably the actual lived experience of being in the military, which presumably these same judges themselves experienced. Maybe the kid’s just trying to weasel out of it, who knows, but “He enjoys fake violence but has no interest in committing real violence”…

Considering Sony has been releasing its games to PC, I would say they found a reason to change. Like, sure, they’re timed exclusives and not technically on Xbox. But the fiction that these games aren’t playable on Xbox (perhaps not an ideal experience but you can do it) is pretty thin when I can fire up Days Gone on…

Isn’t that, like... a Steam Deck? I was of the understanding it had an HDMI port and connecting a separate controller is pretty easy.

Game Pass isn’t silly, but the mindset around it is. People aren’t going to subscribe to a dozen different services at $15.99 a month no matter how desperately publishers clap their hands and believe. Leaving aside for a moment the pros and cons of the idea, even the most basic number crunching would tell publishers…

Wow who could have possibly anticipated this aside from literally anybody paying any attention to the economics of selling video games even slightly.

People on TikTok are calling it the Shai-Hulussy. 

Can we please, for the love of God, stop using terms like “hostage” over what is essentially a fucking toy? I completely agree that if people pay for a service, they should get it, but nobody’s gonna die because they can’t play as Captain Boomerang three days early.

This is a bonus to me. Cyberpunk 2077 was the worst offender in the sense of "I will engage in some mild flirting because the other dialogue options seem shitty aaaaand now here's an unskippable sex scene great."

Why do you need to pass somebody who is, in this scenario, going 65mph? You yourself are presumably going 65. What will you achieve by temporarily going 75 and returning to 65? You’re not going to sustain 75mph long enough to make any meaningful difference in travel time. What's the point?

Or, wild idea I know, we start yanking  licenses for assholes who endanger other people.

TREEPUNCHERS!
TREEPUNCHERS IN-CORP-A-RATED!

That maybe your recreation should not resemble your job?

This is how I feel about stamina meters. Yes I know it was kewl in Dark Souls and added a layer of strategy to the game. Tacking that shit onto your 2D metroidvania just makes it fucking annoying.

Ten gets you twenty we’re gonna find out he claimed to be REALLY concerned about “impartial games journalism” a little while back if you know what I mean.

No. It isn't. These are luxuries, not necessities, and you send a stronger message by not buying a product than you do by stealing it. Piracy just gives companies excuses.

Those stats are absolutely counting people Ubs forced to use their launcher to play the games they bought.

There was an article going around that was titled "Just Buy A Brother Printer" that more or less sums up the attitude of IT people. Not sure if Walker's marsupial overlords will let that brand into the country though.

John. Buddy. My dude. I am in my forties and I haven't owned a printer in years. I haven't brought a paper boarding pass to an airport since the PS3 days. If you really need it, they can print it there. It's OK. Let it go. Be free.