Reid says that to fix the problem, there will be better detection for nonsensical queries that will limit satire and humorous content. User-generated content like forum posts will also be limited. Queries regarding health will have beefed up refinements to give better answers while hard news searches will show…

The symbiotic nature of adaptation and source material is such, of course, that a year after the movie the X-Men did pick up their own black leather team uniform in the comics, for Frank Quitely’s redesign of the team alongside Grant Morrison in New X-Men. But it’s funny how we’ve closed the circle at this point,…

The teeth barely make the top three. It’s the way the eyes barely move and insist on center-focusing that seems most obvious, and the faces don’t deform or wrinkle anywhere near enough during speech to look realistic, although both are already large improvements over where they were just a few years ago.

Impressive that Rocket League broke into the top 100, considering it’s been unavailable for purchase on Steam for years. It *should* be a wake-up call for Epic to enable Linux/SteamOS support for EAC/Battleye on Fortnite, but more likely they’ll see it as a reason to add a Windows-only anti-cheat whenever they get…

The cost is certainly a large part of it - when the US version of Persona 3 FES launched, it cost $30 and included both the enhanced edition of Persona 3 as well as The Answer expansion. By comparison, Reload costs $70 (although it is a full remake, there’s only two or three hours at best of actual new content), and…

Atlus loves fucking over their customers. Soul Hackers 2 was barely a complete game, but had plenty of day-one DLC, including story content and some of the franchise’s most popular demons segmented off into paid packs. There’s no reason Shin Megami Tensei Vengeance couldn’t have just been a DLC, because they already…

I dunno, man - at $350-400 I don’t think this phone has much going for it but the 50MP ultrawide and 12GB of RAM. That’s solidly in the price range of a refurbished flagship from a year or two ago, and even a new Thinkphone is only $400 right now. Sure, you’re probably looking at an 8GB+256GB device, but you’ll also…

A couple years ago Apple advertised the 3rd-gen iPhone SE as having the toughest screen on a smartphone. Inside a week of using one without a screen protector I had nearly a dozen scratches on the screen, including one deep enough that it looked like a crack. That was with fairly normal use - no drops, never put in…

Ten to one on Epic being the buyer, although I expect they’ll be gutted to pre-Embracer employment levels pretty quickly regardless of who buys them out or if they gain their independence.

People don’t stop eating fast food after being shown what a real burger looks and taste like. There’ve been a dozen games that are ‘Pokemon but better’, and none of them have the staying power of the bigger brand. TPC doesn’t have to do jack shit, and they’ll still rake in millions of sales.

Referring to Nguyen/TheFloW as a”cloud vulnerability researcher” seems a bit reductive - it’s his job title, sure, but he’s probably better known as one of the most prolific PlayStation hackers of the last decade or so, including cracking the Vita wide open and showing off multiple PS4/PS5 vulnerabilities. Not…

On the bright side at least Granblue Fantasy Relink seems to have been the exception to that rule... not that I’ve gotten around to playing it yet.

Up until about twenty years ago the conglomerate that owns Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, etc. was part of Pepsi, so cross-promotion with Doritos, Fritos, Mountain Dew, etc. still makes sense. Cheez-its are Kellogs, I think? Different parent company anyways, but it’s not the first time they’ve done something with the…

Bowser was the subject of a Department of Justice sting operation and spent over a year in jail, all for essentially adding some dongles to Nintendo Switches.

There’s clearly a deliberate attempt to make players see these monsters and associate them with Pokemon, and a lot of the designs have obvious similarities - even moreso than other Pokemon-likes. But claiming one creature is clearly a rip-off of another because of one or two design similarities - plant dinosaurs with…

I mean the game even *starts* with a black man giving you all his possessions and selling himself into indentured servitude. There’s a certain kind of negative feedback they were more than willing to court, it’s just that the story as a whole was such a snoozer that people blanked their memories of any of it, or…

There’s been a surprising uptick in AI evangelism in the past year despite the fact that people can access most major models pretty freely and realize how absolutely ass they are. Sure, they’re fun to play around with, but they’re infinitely less reliable than simple scripts that parrot responses from search results…

AAF’s Smooth Criminal cover isn’t exactly faithful, but it’s not like it makes a mess of the song either. I agree that it doesn’t belong here.

I’m never going to voluntarily watch the video for this mess, but I gotta know - is Ringo actually wearing a Ringo shirt in that top image? That’s almost Kanye levels of narcissism, I think.

Trying to dunk on the other spinoffs for not including Royal content is a bit of an odd take - Q2 and Dancing both released in 2018, predating Royal’s late 2019 JP release, and Strikers was probably already post-completion and finalizing QA by the time Royal launched, hitting the shelves just three or four months…