It was just an example, but it still could easily happen. I frequently get auto-played down a rabbit hole of one topic, with no decision made on my part. I’ll watch something completely unrelated to NMS (this happened to me yesterday, btw - and I’m not even complaining about it, anyway), but still about games, then…

but what if he just played offline until it was out for awhile, and only then synced with the server. If he had been manipulating his system clock, it seems like it could be possible. But I’m no expert.

or by YouTube autoplaying the next video

The discs are already printed. AND devs have to send a finished copy to Sony weeks before launch to get compliance certified or whatever they call it, I forget. In other words, his disc is as complete as any PS4 copy that will be available on launch. Not to say that there won’t be some kind of day 1 patch download -…

That is, the interview I heard made it sound like the pattern of play is going to be : gather, save up for a ship, Buy (?) / Build (?) / Discover (?) a jump portal to the next solar system, repeat until you get to the center. I don’t mean that as a criticism, I still think the game looks amazing. Just that that is…

According to an interview I heard on IGN (i think), everyone spawns on the far edge of the galaxy; nobody closer or further from the center. Also, it would supposedly take something like 30 hours to fly from the edge to the center non-stop, and in the game you actually have to do a lot lot lot of resource gathering,…

It does seem like that would be easy to get around if you wanted to; you could probably just change the system clock on your PS4 and keep it offline or something similar. Who knows what he’ll actually do, but even if he played non-stop from now until release, it seems like that’s such a small drop in the bucket of…

Maybe that’s the party platform, but the candidate disagrees:

That may be the official platform, but it does not appear that Johnson agrees:

I wonder if they are going to do this with other games as well...? I recently went back and played a bit of ROTMG after a while gone, and Twitch coin-flip gamblers have really moved in big time.

I’m thinking a Pixar joint...?

“Despite sharing a name with a well-known psychotic drug, the game’s creator claims LSD stands for “Lovely Sweet Dream” and has no connection to the hallucinogen”

from today:

I thought that basically every state had a “lemon law” that would apply in this situation (IIRC you can return a car within a week if there are undisclosed problems)

So the next one will be X-Men: Inferno, right? I nominate Joe Dante to direct

I played this when I was a kid! It was over 20 years ago, but I’m pretty sure it was on a family vacation to Sweden. This guy is also in Europe - were these machines more common there?