Oh, that’s right! Thanks. I even remember reading that article; think it was here.

Jeez. Have they announced yet if they’re abandoning the core TES/FO games? Skyrim came out 7 years ago, which’d give the next game a much longer time between releases vs historically, so it seems like ESO was in place of a new core game since we still don’t have a proper announcement; would be disappointing if this…

Easily the best purchasing decision I’ve made this decade was buying a Brother laser printer and throwing the inkjet down into the basement a few times. Color’s not worth the time and frustration.

Easily the best purchasing decision I’ve made this decade was buying a Brother laser printer and throwing the inkjet…

>poor 3rd world peon ... basically a years’ salary
>$29,000 

nah, I just pick up a lot during the big Summer/Winter sales and sometimes Humble Bundles, so to that end, the library size is more a product of time with only ~$150-250/yr spent on games, way less than most spend, I imagine. A lot of them, I’d already played and just categorize into an age group to release into…

When skimming headline, was thinking 2% seems high. I’ve refunded ~3 out of 1800 games (2 for unreliable always-online single-player, 1 just because it was awful). Reading, I’m surprised many people would be jerks just because they can, where Amazon Prime seems to’ve disproved that a significant number of people will…

This should be done; the story has a good foundation. You keep looking because you need to progress in preparing the house for sale, and you can’t afford to abandon the property. Lots of things you can hide between floor joists; imagine the ways a tedious clicker minigame prying the floorboards could be spruced up!

Okay, let’s flip it a little; let’s say you were in charge of keeping the only copy of the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and you can only keep one, BUT any media derivative of Star Wars is going to remain (so while the movies mysteriously disappear, everyone’s going to see the reviews and other related content looking at…

tbh, I’ve been struggling with this question from an archival perspective. My instinct is that the game should run in the best possible way, and that any technical issues which weren’t resolved then should be resolved today (including things like upscaling) — but it’s not the same experience we had; you’re “missing…

“Attacking the dog doesn’t match my alignment. I refuse to fight the dog, rabid or not.”

“You must fight; you’re cornered and the dog’s rabid, and it’s a wolf...”

...

“I spend my turn in emotional Hell over critically failing my stick throw and impaling the dog.”

“... You have another turn.”

“I’m trapped in Hell.”

I remember the first time I booted up GTA5. There was a cat in the alley. I go up to it and press the action button. It’d been years since I was last horrified by a game.

Glad to see hunch that Steam reviews are unusually positive confirmed. The community is unusually hostile toward negative reviews, would be interesting to see them break that out and look at the “helpful” scores for positive/negative. I quit reviewing there (and deleted existing reviews) because positive reviews would…

Same experience. It just works. Nearly 1k games in Steam library, and since switching, have never had to uninstall and install different drivers for different games after looking up why something’s glitching or experiencing frame drops. I hear AMD’s getting much better with drivers these days, but I was slow to switch…

I think the reason I didn’t much enjoy BF1 is that it felt much more like a simulation than the run-and-gun arcade of something like BF2 and others released earlier, and I feel bad saying that because I really like simulations with ridiculous attention to detail. -But I expect an action game in the BF franchise, so it…

Sounds like these kids just want to meet up together, which is 100% fine and normal, and lacrosse is the easiest means to do that. With the change away from just letting your 8-year-old walk over to other folks’ houses without scheduling in advance, video games are typically the lowest-hassle way for kids to socialize…

idk, Paradox seems to keep a fairly tight leash on those they publish, or at least there’s a very clear, consistent style in their acquisitions. I’d guess the latter since they seem chill af. Even when it’s not a Paradox game, I can look at Eador or whatever and say, “oh, this was acquired by Paradox in most…

George over at SuperBunnyHop did a surprising episode on VR maybe not being a fad after giving PS VR a whirl. He mentioned being surprised at it feeling rude not to look at people while they’re talking. I wonder if the life-size immersion will trigger some other politeness instincts in folk. (I’m not about to pay…

Disappointing. I use this data as a filter criteria to help me find new games to try out. As long as a reasonable number of people are still using it, though, still useful — it’s not like I need the data to be precise for my uses (filtering out spam games), though I can see how it’d be a disappointing tool loss for…

-So I pre-ordered the fancy version ~forever ago, and I’ve become so hyped over time, I’m legitimately terrified of opening it. I’ll probably immediately stuff it in a box and pirate a pdf so I can bring down my expectations.

There is the letter “o” in your 2009 (is instead 20o9). It makes it more pleasing to look at and draws my attention to it. What is this next-tier psychological hoopla?