My parents had our Sound Blaster hooked up to some kind of amplifier and mixer setup which was not made for that. It required surgical precision to get the volume knob jussst right so it was audible while not blowing out the speakers. Plus, older games didn’t have great sound mixing so everything would be fine until a…

Good question, I should specify this is in contrast to people not being under good canopies (i.e. malfunctions leading to no parachute at all, or a broken or deformed one) which I suspect dominates public perception while being incredibly rare. I think most people think of a skydiving accident as someone with bad luck…

The number I had in my head 15 years ago when I was skydiving was 30-40 deaths per million jumps, so nice to see it’s only getting safer. Yes you’re jumping out of a perfectly good airplane (well, a good enough airplane at least), but turns out your body is perfectly good for maneuvering in freefall, and your modern…

Sometimes you have to kill rats in a sewer to level up, sometimes you’re the rat!

You were skipping straight to the final boss (which has up to 7 forms if you don’t defeat it quickly!) which adds a lot of stakes. Watching regular season baseball is like watching random battles with a particularly rng-heavy battle system.

Somebody replied thoughtfully to you and you mocked and disregarded the reply. Why should anyone else bother to take you seriously?

You will roo the day you made that pun.

I’m a huge wuss now and was a bigger wuss then with horror games (I played RE7 with a walkthrough in hand) and it’s a miracle I ever finished this game. Guest house with the spiders? Noooope. Once the hunters show up (is that what they were called? That replaced zombies) it actually got less scary because I died more…

At the simplest the way back down would be the way you came up, and since videogames generally don’t let you descend a ledge by carefully sitting down and sliding over the edge, lowering yourself slowly, the challenge in descending isn’t “realistic” anyways.

I remember playing that at our “old house,” meaning I can date the memory to 5 or younger. I would fly a mission or two, exit the game, then start it back up to give the pilot a break.

Unless your work computer is running the home edition of windows 10, I believe that's your system administrator's fault, isn't it?

The straightforward reason is that people, if left to their own devices, suck at actually applying updates. This wasn’t the biggest issue in the world when your great aunt sally’s windows 98 install was riddled with bugs and vulnerabilities, but the way our computers interact with the internet now necessitates a bit…

If the games in your backlog don’t interest you enough to actually start them instead of buying the next hot game (like RDR 2) then I try to mentally toss it in the trash. Yes, you own it, maybe someday you’ll play it if there’s literally nothing else to play, but realistically write it off as a lesson learned. I buy…

I can only speak for myself: I loved RotTR when I played it after release. A couple of months ago I decided to replay it (after some PC upgrades), and just got kinda bored about halfway through. Now, I rarely replay games (or reread books, or rewatch movies) so maybe that’s not fair but that was the recent taste in my…

Cult classic seems like an interesting description. Even in the late 90s Cowboy Bebop seemed unusually popular and mainstream for an anime, at least in the US.

I have an old brother mfc 435j I got in 2011. As far as I remember it hasn’t so much as jammed in all these years. This was after years of being pissed off at consumer hp printers. Definitely my recommended printer brand.

I have an old brother mfc 435j I got in 2011. As far as I remember it hasn’t so much as jammed in all these years.…

From the review (emphasis in bold is mine):

While true for the second one, because of the backlash to that direction they made the third thematically a lot more like the first (in fact, the theme whiplash is given an explanation and in game mechanic!).

Weird metrics for valuing and comparing games by genre!

You posted your opinion but were unprepared for other people to comment on your opinion? That was awfully silly of you.