So you would trust the review of a reviewer who just ordered the food and gave the review before even tasted it? If that’s what you would do, more power to you. I would rather trust a review from the person who have actually taste and finished the food.

Not having played Xeno 3 I can’t say for sure.  But when they brought up comparison with the previous entries, I know whoever wrote the review had never spent more than 20 hours on any of the titles. 

Take that exact point and extend further, why not review a book by its cover and a film by its opening?  Why not review a restaurant by peeking into their window and see other people eating there?

Sounds like most of the reviewers didn’t both the beat the game to give a fair review. Xeno, unlike other JRPG series, have complete plot and gameplay twist at the end of every “chapter”. So you can’t actually review the game until its completion.

I am gonna avoid all the reviews, any possibility spoiler does disservice to this title. But I want to say that Xeno 1's fillers are fantastic world-building, it adds life to open-world and there are so much stories with the NPCs that makes me want to rebuild Colony 6.

Yeah... sadly, by Asian standard you are right. Especially when one of the major party in Taiwan was running the campaign on reverse the same-sex marriage during the last major election. They lost, but still, same-sex marriage is on a shaky ground. 

A bit late, but good for them.  

Immigrant here. I didn’t grew up with Magic the Gathering, so it’s very difficult to get into the game. It takes a lot of money to not lose and also a lot of players are pretty snobby.

It’s so good, why did they cut it out?

Question, are the gems necessary?  I have been playing for a couple of days with all the legendary gears.  I had not participated in any PvP so far so I don’t see those gems being necessary.  However, the articles like this make it sound like it’s something I need, so have I been playing it wrong?

Xeno series have the best stories since the days of FF6 and Chrono Triggers. Ever since that shocking ending of Xenoblade 2 that recontextualizes everything, I am very much intrigued by what’s going to happen in this game.

I like my characters with big eyes, but this Ellie felt odd, her new design looks like it felt into the Uncanny Valley.

From the wording of current policy, yes.

Yeah, don’t see it. This teaser footage didn’t really show much, just musical note motif. If anything, the fight reminded me of the Kung Fu Hustle musical fight.

Not defending NFT or block chain, I hate it myself, but: https://gizmodo.com/shanghais-covid-lockdown-spurs-nfts-to-avoid-china-cens-1848878652

Shanghai Lockdown Spurs NFTs to Avoid Government CensorshipIf you start your own chain or NFT, you may need to know how to run your own database. But this is now mostly done via services, only YouTube millionaires would start their own chain.

The definition of optimization is now incredibly murky. Back in the days with CGI, each component does one thing and one thing only. Then we moved to fully server based web applications around ASP era. After JS frameworks became popular there is a front-end and back-end split.

Monolithic server with load balancer can do the exact same thing. The containers on the cloud could in theory spins infinite number of instances, but they are still all virtual servers running on hardware blades, very much the same as processes and threading on monolithic servers.

Cloud servers are now much harder to manage. A couple of years ago when it was wild west of cloud servers, just putting things on there and applications would run. But now there are so many security concerns and dependency issues, most businesses once again needs server administrators to manage the cloud instances.

As a tech person, there is a benefit to distributed ledger for access control. But yeah, it’s basically reinventing the wheel for no visible differences.