Honestly, I feel like Scholastic’s misstep was in trying to sidestep anger by positioning this as a way to celebrate diverse voices. Because it never was, and it was always about trying to navigate the political hellscape.

It’s not all that weird, BR drives have required this for a while.

When Microsoft debued the Always Online Xbox one, and thr backlash made them walk it back, I hope everyone realized that was only a temporary victory. Out consoles *WILL* be always online mandated, it’s just a matter of when. Hell, our PCs basically are right now. The number of games you can install to your drive and a…

It’s so refreshing to see a developer in 2023 who actually cares about making their games fully playable on the disc without significant issues. Having a note that the day 1 patch isn’t required and only further polishes the experience is amazing.

Unless Bethesda is employing monkeys to write code, the game isn’t keeping track of non-rendered physics objects in memory. Their positions would be stored elsewhere, and be loaded when the player position or camera frustum was close enough to trigger rendering.

Any game can be optimized if it’s a priority; that’s not…

“I never stopped enjoying swinging around as Spider-Man”

It wasn’t good. Open world is fun when you can take your time and explore at your own pace, Sonic games are good when you can go with the flow and follow where it’s taking you, steering and jumping as necessary. You can immediately see the problem. If you just let the world take you where it wants you to, it’s fine,…

I don’t really think it’s for “mystique,” Nintendo usually just doesn’t really lean into “behind the scenes” stuff that much. I think in this case they just want the new VA’s performance to stand on its own without making a big deal about it.

That would be some serious “Fonzi rides a motorcycle on skis and jumps over a live shark” energy if that happened!

I don’t feel like that was implied, and I highly doubt it.

Yeah, that description made me go “whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?”

And she dies in the first episode and nobody else calls him that for the rest of the series. I legit forgot about it, which made reading this article make me feel like I got Mandela Effected/

Who TF calls him ‘Dee’? A year of dialogue about this show and no one says that.

I’m not sure how to find it, but at some point there was an interview with someone at Nintendo where they talked about the direction of the Paper Mario series (it was featured here). They explicitly stated that they felt 2 Mario RPG series was too many, so they would be keeping the Mario & Luigi series as RPG, but…

I feel like these things go back and forth. Like the entire New Super Mario Bros series was pretty stagnant and then for Super Mario Wonder they were encouraged to do as much new stuff as they could. They just seem to kind of switch back and forth between playing it safe and trying to be more original. I wouldn’t be…

I think a lot of people can’t discern a protagonist from a hero. Like, whoever is the main character, they’ll read the work as endorsing them, their views and actions.

yeah i hate it when stories have rising scope and tension. lord of the rings would have been better if it was just about gandalf and bilbo partying and smoking weed

Psst, Kenneth, pro-tip: if you’re having trouble looting, hold down X on PS5 (or A on Xbox/Switch). A menu will pop up listing every item and container within range of your character, and then you can just go up and down the list to loot.

I like the idea of treating this live-action series like a standalone One Piece movie.

This. I don’t remember being annoyed when it first came out, but do remember the HD port having this issue. For the longest time, I felt like inverted was the standard configuration, and then all of a sudden inverted was the exception to the rule.