This video convinced me to buy the game! Long, long ago I was a huge Battletech fan. I read the novels, I held Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries in the highest esteem (still do!), I still consider the original Mechwarrior 2 cover art with the Timber Wolf/Mad Cat to be one of the most aesthetically pleasing game covers.…

I didn’t follow this closely but the explanation I read was that Steam machines (which ran Steam OS, right?) were a reaction to Windows UWP and Windows Store, which Microsoft could have used to try and go full walled-garden. That didn’t really come to pass.

In my mind, I can’t imagine a better experience playing a game than Baldur’s Gate 2. This is probably unfair because I’m sure if I were to play the game today I’d see all of its flaws, both the ones overlooked by a younger me, and the ones exposed by a decade plus of advancement in game design. Still, fair or not, I…

My dad would wake up at 4 AM to get ready for work, and at least once a week I’d abruptly hear him getting up, have to quickly cut off the TV (if FFVII) or PC (if Baldur’s Gate) and dive into bed. So I’m not going to clutch any pearls at this story.

I feel like this is becoming increasingly unsustainable, but then it’s also apparently been like this for a long time so maybe it’s just not going to change. Are AAA games just too cheap? Are the studios doing too much for too little, and squeezing the employees to make it profitable? What can indie developers do to…

Do you mean turning off the surge protector AFTER shutting down with the fast startup enabled? What people seem to not understand is the fast start up is is like hibernating, not sleeping. The kernel state is saved to your nonvolatile memory, just like any other file, and loaded when you power back on. Pulling the…

This particular feature is a true power off, it just saves the kernel state to nonvolatile memory. Even if you powered off then unplugged the PC, you’d get the same result booting up (as opposed to sleep).

It really depends on how far you are from the TV. Most people’s set ups are driven by room arrangement, not optimal viewing distance given resolution and TV size. 10 feet from my 50 inch 1080 TV and in many PS4 games it’s hard to read, so I usually roll my PC chair over and cut the distance in half. And my vision is…

They said they stop you from buying future tickets until you do it, so you’d just do it later.

I agree, most people set up their couch and tv based on room layout and you’re lucky if that turns out optimal. I’m 10 feet from a 50 inch tv and I have to cut that to 6-8 for games. My vision is fine.

Speaking of wear, reading some of the comments here it looks like I’m pushing their lifespan. I need an excuse to do some dusting, maybe it’s time to pick up some new ones! I got ones with LEDs back then, which I didn’t care about aesthetically but figured if the fan dies it’d lose the light and I could tell right…

When I built my PC in 2011 I bought the HAF-12 case and basically the first four cheap but good-enough fans I saw at Fry’s. 2 240s and 2 120s. Despite my PC having been ship of Theseus’d into a whole new PC by now, I still have the same case and fans. They’re not controllable, and are pretty quiet. I’m a bit surprised…

This is something that varies massively over relatively small distances. I suspect if you compared the rates of home food preparation between people living in small apartments in NYC to, say, people in Albany a modest 250 km away it’d vary dramatically (heck, a sibling lived in an apartment near Shanghai for many…

“SW 1380 you can stop wherever you want” - “Thank you we’re going to stop right by the fire trucks”

Heck my vision is fine and I have problems with some games. I think part of the problem is that viewing distances to TVs is wildly variable, and tend to be farther than “ideal,” unlike a PC monitor. I’m 10 feet back from a 50 inch TV and, like the author being 8 feet from a 42 inch, TV people will tell you that’s way…

It’s primarily to keep you from using lots of electricity when you aren’t there. If anything it’s the opposite of wealth and power which is usually shown as conspicuous consumption.

Hawkeye the Marvel character predates MASH, both movie and show, by several years. And Hawkeye (at least in the show, unsure about the movie or novel) is named for the character from James Fenimore Cooper’s adventure novels, the most well-known being Last of the Mohicans which was a movie with Daniel-Day Lewis as…

“Not necessarily bad” is pretty high praise for a video game movie

They’re a little wishy washy about it at first (I think they originally were thinking dark comedy before going for more pure drama) but walter is played as a straight up villain who destroys lives, including his family’s. Bryan Cranston is too charismatic and people too stupid so a lot of people see him as the “hero”…

This is the guddest anyone has ever gitten.