I have to hand it to you. What you’re saying is reasonable. I don’t like it, but it makes sense.

I don’t know much about this kind of thing, but maybe a lawyer has advised him that he can’t admit to intentionally ripping off Boomstick’s content without opening himself to potential legal action. That’s the only possible explanation I can think of beyond Filip trying to save face.

For me, playing No Man’s Sky for the first time (and I’m still in the early hours) is like trying to learn a new language. It’s both intriguing and a little daunting. I’ve been slowly figuring out how to craft different things I need, and I still don’t have a clue about which upgrades I should buy out of the many that…

It’s one mission that’s definitely a story mission (something about a bank robbery) and one mission that may or may not be a story mission (it’s unclear from the description). But yes, it stinks of them removing content from the main game — probably very early in the development process from the way they’ve talked…

We have no confirmation of that, but I hope you’re right. I’m just thinking back to Mass Effect 3's day one DLC. It had things that — while not absolutely crucial to the story — were very important in the context of the overall Mass Effect lore.

That’s a strange scenario you mentioned, but yes, I would be okay with a $60 Discount Edition that had story content removed and an $80 Standard Edition. This is all about developers being open and honest with consumers.

I think it might have been because I was expecting better than this from Rockstar. I was excited for Red Dead Redemption II and was planning to pre-order it until I read the information about the different editions. I still think the game looks great, but I’m no longer on board for playing it right when it comes out.…

I’m saying that “Standard Edition” should be what they call the full game, regardless of price. If they had had no $60 edition and called the $80 edition the Standard Edition, I would have been fine with that.

And it would have been so simple for them to avoid those pre-order missteps. All they would have had to do is:

You misunderstand me. At no time did I say that I refuse to pay more than $60 for a full game. What I was saying is that if you’re going to sell a $60 Standard Edition of your game, I want it to be the full game. If you’re going to sell an $80 Standard Edition of your game, I want it to be the full game. No matter…

That looks really impressive, but I’m still not going to take the plunge until I can get the COMPLETE edition of the game (also known as the Special Edition) for $60 or less.

…who’s burned the land, boiled the sea, and taken the sky from somebody you’ve never met before.

The UI is... challenging to be sure, but I imagine I’ll get used to it in time. I just started playing the game for the first time on Xbox One. Learning how to play No Man’s Sky is like learning another language. It’s both intriguing and a little daunting. I just landed on my second planet and I don’t yet know how to…

I agree on No Man’s Sky. I’ve only just started playing it, but it does seem like it could turn into a very chill experience once you get used to everything.

I can see it happening twenty or thirty years from now IF we finally have the infrastructure for it by then. But five years? No way. We’re talking about a rock-solid connection that can’t have more input lag than I have when I play a game on my Xbox One. That kind of connectivity at a somewhat affordable price (and…

The history behind polio is actually far more complicated than that. Simplifying it one way or another does the topic a disservice. This is a great Twitter thread that lays it all out there. Well worth a read.

We have, but we haven’t been living for multiple generations with all of the vaccines that today’s children have on the CDC-recommended schedule. The number of recommended vaccinations has exploded — especially since liability protection for vaccine makers went into effect in the ‘80s.

I have a feeling that the priorities with a new Switch model would be less heat and better plastic (to avoid the bending and cracking we’ve seen).

I played The Lion’s Song on PC a while back. It’s divided into four episodes. The first episode was excellent, and the second episode was pretty good. But the third episode went so far off the rails that it soured the entire experience for me. The decent fourth episode couldn’t begin to make up for that train wreck.

It’s a big deal because the lack of cross-play is an oddly anti-consumer stance from a company that was so pro-consumer at the beginning of this console generation. They’re not willing to play nice for the sake of their customers, and their customers are being negatively impacted by their stubbornness. One example is…