Film grain is bizarre to me. I spent an hour one night trying to figure out why the shadows in...maybe it was titanfall 2 or maybe RE7 (both?), looked so wrong, assuming my gpu was causing glitches or something. Nope, intentional.

I definitely 100% got haircuts before Blood and Wine.

I’m not even over General Leo's yet!

Now I wish the famous drunk witchers scene in Witcher 3 had an option for Geralt to secretly stay sober.

It’s funny when it happens in the game but when I do this in real life it’s “indecent exposure” and a “crime”?!

That is a solid technicality!

There were claims from WW2 pilots, in particular I think P-47 pilots (a plane that was very heavy and very powerful) of breaking the barrier in dives, but it was probably inaccurate indicated airspeeds because of weird pressure effects on the pitot tubes. A P-47 could go over 400 mph at 30,000 feet, which is about 200…

Honestly with the amount of turnover and churn in the videogame industry, loyalty to a company has always seemed kinda pointless. The games you considered good that you listed there span the better part of a decade and the last one was a decade ago. The nearly celebrity-status director types are a bit more stable but…

I played almost exclusively flight type games (sims, wing commander, x wing, tie fighter, freespace) in my early gaming years and am an actual pilot now, but trying to play another type of game with inverted controls makes my brain snap and leaves me twitching on the ground with foam coming out of my mouth. I think my…

I’m not criticizing anyone who works at trying to get one at launch, but if you’re on the fence at all just wait. There’ll be hardware revisions (maybe smaller!), bugs worked out of the OS, etc. over time. The hardware revisions are what I wait for, so they can shake out the hardware issues which can’t be fixed with…

Some people seem physically incapable of just saying something on the internet without injecting some degree of self righteousness or smugness. I have never pressed the share button on purpose, in part because honestly I wasn’t sure what it did. But I can see and understand the obvious utility to it. In my case it'd…

I just ublock origin, same as pc, and it works fine. Heck, I don’t know if it’s because I’m on firefox or the ublock or both, but I don’t even see the slideshows that piss off everyone, I just see them like articles.

I actually want to change something I said, I said to them it isn’t about the conspiracy. I think that’s actually wrong. To them it’s ALL about the conspiracy (paranoia, delusional, whatever causes a person to be essentially radicalized), the belief is secondary. It’s a conspiracy theory, not a bad science theory,…

All of these conspiracy theories (moon landing, flat earth, lizard people, outcomes of certain recent elections) aren’t really related to facts or science or even education. I think it’s probably closer to a mental illness.

If he got all 5 states (which is possible still) he’d win more EVs then trump did in 2016. I am VERY frustrated with the early doom and gloom from people who didn’t pay attention to clear explanations of what was going to happen with the long counts and democrat-heavy mail in ballots. He’s going to win the popular…

A thought I’ve had in 2008 is that there probably won’t be a popular vote blowout in US presidental elections for another generation, for anybody. Biden may end up flipping 5 states and winning more EVs then Trump did and get 10 million more votes, and that’s probably the best outcome anyone should have expected.

Now this brings back memories. I remember playing this and appreciating the soundtrack.

I worked with a guy who had worked on the Apollo programs (I have a boring job, this was just a happy bit of circumstance) who told me about working 80-100 hour weeks to materially contribute to one of the great technological achievements in human history. Included a very 1960s anecdote about dropping his wife off at…

“in 2017 she had the same TV she had when I left for college some 10 years previous”

I so rarely use discs or the power button that I just guessed everytime I needed to eject one.