If you want to be on the bleeding edge it can be expensive, but most people don’t. CPUs and mobos will last a long time if all you’re doing is gaming. The video card ages out, but usually after 3 or so years you’re running games at high instead of ultra. I’m on a 5 year old cpu and the only reason I upgraded from a 5…

Ahem, note the cover: https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Player-O…

I like the idea of e-readers and have a paper white but, as little a thing as it sounds, it’s just so hard to jump back a few pages and then back to where you were, or quickly scan the last few pages/chapters for something. I guess that’s a bigger part of my reading experience than I thought and I get slowed down and…

I guess if you had absurd agility during the jump you could get yourself in there with feet on one side and hands on the other. I can picture myself doing it in my head. But in-head me is a lot cooler than real me.

The article addresses your concern at the very beginning, specifically.

It doesn’t have much of an endgame. Building a ship is an unsatisfying ending. Still sinking in so many hours.

To answer your question for just me, I don’t get much value from the portability. I’m not going to drag that thing to a coffee shop to play Witcher 3. Maybe if I’m traveling, but there’s almost no travel scenario I can imagine where I want to play games. Maybe on a plane, but that’s usually reading time for me. So I’d…

Is it too optimistic for me to hope that a lot of these reactions are staged for humorous effect? It is, isn’t it?

I was hoping this would be you guys reviewing scores. “We give 9.3 a solid 8.5. It’s the workhorse of non-committal good scores.”

Doesn’t everyone call the buttons zero, quad, delta, and slanty-plus?

That lifeless body appears to be covered in plant life. Presumably very different from ours to grow at -50 C...

It’s bad enough he broke into their offices and injected bugs into the advance copies and then intentionally leaked it to that one guy! All part of the conspiracy to mumblemumblenonsense!!

Can I write one of these for Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra? That game was way ahead of its time but everyone seems to have missed it. No fancy modern OS rereleases, meaning I’d have to dig out the floppies, which may be too old.

Have you actually played king’s quest, or any of the older Sierra adventure games? This was well before modern game design was remotely fleshed out, and the Williams clearly didn’t really understand the best way to inject challenge into the game. If the solutions to puzzles aren’t obvious, then they’re absurd. The…

My girlfriend wants a sapphire ring (“if anything”) and was thinking like 500 dollars. I don’t think she knows how much these rings are, but that’s fine. I have never once seen her wear a ring, nor has her oldest childhood friend. If left to my own devices I would probably spend around 2k on a sapphire ring (as…

Ah, interesting. I wouldn’t have guessed that was a big thing.

I don’t see how that was affected. Bars and restaurants are usually past security, and if you get off the plane for a connection you’re still past security, so security wouldn’t affect that.

Fire types doing ice damage? “Working as intended.”

I’m sure it could use work, but I think if they gave you a heading, it’d be too much info. Hey, imagine if From Software made it! The pawprints would probably be something else entirely and possibly mean nothing. Also they would only appear in front of moving cars or in dangerously swift flowing streams. Maybe halfway…

If they told you precisely where they are wouldn’t that remove one of the primary elements of a game about finding things? Seriously, I haven’t played it but I assumed you’re not just guided from pokemon to pokemon.