“Unlike the most recent instalment in the franchise – 2011’s (great) Deus Ex: Human Revolution”

It’s an old capitalism trick. It’s called artificial scarcity, and is a technique used by just about every company, ever.

Wasn’t aware that console hacking was possible. As a primary PC player, online hacking is something I’ve grown accustomed to, though as I play mostly RPGs, this doesn’t happen often. When it does it’s always in Arma 3, and anyone who joins a server and fails to record gameplay is making a mistake. On the other hand…

This is the dichotomy of state capitalism, which favors complacency and maintenance to preserve the status quo. End result is things don’t get fixed. They get band-aided. Anything that jeapordizes margin is intolerable. This will continue to be the case until we can dispense with the notion that profit and infinite…

Step 1: get a VPN that doesn’t keep logs. iPredator for instance.

Not sure. It’s worthwhile to do a search on what VPNs make use of canaries and logs. I’ve been using iPredator for a couple years now. About $8 a month. You can even pay with bitcoin. They keep no logs. Some VPN providers do, and when they do, they can be legally required to share in certain circumstances. iPredator…

Not sure. It’s worthwhile to do a search on what VPNs make use of canaries and logs. I’ve been using iPredator for a…

Lots of people seem to think this is good apparently? This thing stinks of amateurish marketing and slapstick tropes.

Not really, but ok. Kind of hard to know that you don’t like it when you never made it past page 10.

The continued lack of SLI support for AAA titles is worrisome, especially as 4k becomes more and more common. More often than not it’s just sheer oversight. In this instance using 0x080116F5 SLI bits from Battlefield 1 gives some substantial performance increases. You’d think NVidia would be all over pushing their…

Yeah, things have improved a great deal, however, once you add a custom water loop with dual rads, four pumps, solid tubing with 85 g1/4 fittings and aquacomputer control, it gets significantly more challenging. I’ll never touch solid tube again, the stuff warps wayyyy too easy and the fittings are 2-3x more expensive…

You have no clue what you’re missing then. The series starts off almost with a slow burn, but by the time you get to Geralt and Little Eye in Sword of Destiny, if you aren’t misty eyed, you’re not human.

“Clearly the drum has not been beaten enough, if it has been then the majority of games would be diverse. We’re moving in the right direction after last year, but that’s still an incredibly small pool where white male characters dominate by a large margin.”

$1000? What?

Indeed. Everyone has their trigger, ;)

I think Kotaku missed something:

“had attempted to use third-party software during his second go-through of For Honor’s single-player... For the last week, HideoshiKaze has been desperately messaging developers, begging to be let back in... Currently, he’s still banned.”

I consider myself a fairly open guy on the music front. I listen to a wide variety of weird stuff and some more commercial stuff too here and there. Anything from Curve to Stellamara, Bone Thugs to Marilyn Manson, but for some reason, I. Absolutely. Hate. AC/DC. If it comes on the radio, the station doesn’t get…

Couple people have mentioned CDPR getting movie offers - whatever happened to the movie helmed by Tomek Baginski? It should be moving into completion this year, right?

Meh, I *think* I have this on Origin, but the lack of terrain tools was it for me. I pretty well made caricatures of myself, family and friends, and built our neighborhoods.

“I want to know how it happened and make sure that it goes up the flagpole and that Nintendo is made aware of it. [Target] said they’d pass it along and somebody would get back to me and I haven’t heard anything since.”