Sure you can be in multiple defensive wars, but you’re only allowed one offensive war. Not counting ally wars that is.

I mean, I get it.

QA testing is literally part of the development process, unless you want to release a buggy mess. They should have the same worker protections and decent compensation. 

Alternative: advocate for good game developers and game development practices.

The playstation naming scheme ist for people for which it is a problem to do anything else but count simple numbers.

Paid, and no, they can't be happy. Misspelling is my pet peeve; not maximizing multiple monetization models may well be theirs.

Yes, knowing that I’ve hit a milestone like Roman Emperor without a backup save is fantastic.

I just wrapped up a grand campaign in Crusader Kings 2. I took the Bakil dynasty from 1-2 provinces to a vast Abbasid-like empire reaching its tendrils through the heart of Europe. I did it in Ironman (no loading earlier saves), so I also lost most of what I built up at least once. On the sociopolitical level, I’ve…

Hyper Sonic, Hyper Knuckles, and Super Tails (since Tails only obtained a super form with the Super Emeralds) were fantastic additions to Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

9:11 is a time.

That’s how Chinese censorship works with global media companies. China is censoring its history not just for its own population but for the entire world, and companies like Activision are willing to bend over backward in order to satisfy their new cultural suzerains.

Not the first, but still a very good one. Daggerfall was a couple of years before, and there may be other open-world ARPGs before that.

Hah! I found in college that I couldn’t quite get into any of the MMORPGs I tried. World of Warcraft, Warhammer Online, Lord of the Rings Online - none of them clicked. So it’s also possible that I was only spared disappointment by a couple of weeks.

I bought Everquest new for $40, at a time when that represented two months of allowance. I had been attracted for months by the box art, and the promise of a fantasy roleplaying adventure in the line of Diablo or the Forgotten Realms games.

Punching China in the nose : restricting TenCent :: Punching the US in the nose : restricting Facebook.

I am pretty open to discussing potential ways to deal with China. I could see a fairly diplomatic route, a fairly hardline route, and deliberate varying of both strategies to keep China at least minimally in line with respect to the Uigur populations, Hong Kong, trade policy, and foreign investment.

China does heinous shit?. Like unmarked ‘agents’ kidnapping people, speeding them away to parts unknown, without trial or due process? . Because that’s totally not happening in the US right now...oh wait...

After reading your comment, I realized what it looks like.

Well, yes. The design seems optimized to present an abundance of links to stories, which makes it easier to integrate the supported content and ads.

Right, this. The longevity (so far) of digital media has exceeded many people’s ability to keep their physical copies with all of their clutter around. That doesn’t mean I think physical media should die. It just means that, on one particular measure (longevity), digital media has done better than anticipated.