Right, I would never have paid for subnautica but I tried it for free and now I’ll happily pay for its sequel. They got paid to put the game in my hands and then I pay them again, that's a good deal.

Hot swapping it like that wouldn’t really be anymore traumatic to the video card than a regular power on, I think the real concern is you shocking yourself or a component while it’s running (I imagine there’s more of a surface charge that builds up while it’s running even if it’s mostly discharged to ground. I…

Did it work forever after? After booting and running with the integrated graphics I don’t think windows xp (or even windows now though I think you can manually switch in nvidia control panel) could recognize a newly plugged in video card and know to switch (involving all kinds of driver loading and stuff normally done…

I wonder if that’s something they’ll patch in. I’m a big dummy and never used the ps4's ability to resume games until recently (I would literally go and close application everytime I was done). It really does change things to be able to go click click bam you’re right in the game instead of click, splash screen,…

I’m not up to date on next gen features but I know the Xbox lets you minimize one game and play other games, switching between them. Does the ps5 do the same? Also depends on how aggressive the autosaving is. A lot of modern games you don’t really need to manually save anymore (and sometimes all a manual save does is…

I haven’t had to do anything “weird” to run a game on a PC in, jeez, I’d guess 15 years at least. And I’ve been playing games on PCs since the late 80s so believe me when I say I’ve done some weird crap to make games work. I’m curious what issue you had with the one game? Based on your sarcastic description I’m…

He was an alcoholic with undiagnosed Asperger’s in the 70s, it wouldn’t surprise me if she left him. His quotes about her not wanting anything to do with him (which appears to not be the case but who knows - they did get together in the 90s for a bit), and the fact that someone even suggested a 70 year old (age when…

You've interpreted his bit in a very bizarre way.

I think the peak male 80s action movie physique (outside arnold and sly) is Temple of Doom Indy:

Me too! But it was cereal.

Same here, and I feel like there’s this “single player games are making a comeback!!” every few years. Frequently enough I suspect that they aren’t really going away to begin with.

The age of your oldest credit line is a factor in your credit score. Opening a credit card for your kids when they're young (and not letting them use it obviously) isn't a bad idea since there's no other way to increase that metric quickly. I don't know if Canada does credit scores like the US.

As much as people complain about other drivers, there are roundabouts here and people generally know how to use them. I live near DC in Maryland and routinely drive through several. If I had to guess maybe it’s once a month I see someone stop unnecessarily before entering. Maybe that’s bad compared to your location…

I’m very late here but since this article came out I’ve bought and completed Ys VIII and started IX and was seeing if kotaku had any coverage on Ys IX (and this appears to be it - seems like IX is flying under radars?). I was actually surprised by how different a type of game IX seems to be. A lot of the narrative…

Wait, you can eat a donut every day a year, not change anything else, and ONLY gain a little more than a pound a month?

Well, the key is that market capitalization isn’t necessarily tied to value, profits, earnings, anything. Those things MAY drive investor sentiment and adjust demand for the shares which in turn affects price and market cap. Or investor sentiment may be driven by reddit memes.

Buying volatile stocks and trying to make a quick buck day trading them is a valid strategy, sure, but it’s a risky, difficult strategy. If it really was simple as buying a stock that was going up and selling it when it stopped we’d all be rich.

Public tantrums really shouldn’t be happening past around 3 and won’t start really happening until about 1 (but those probably won’t be public, it’ll be more like taking away the baby’s toy when they don’t want you to), so if it’s all about tantrums then it’s really toddlers you don’t like, a relatively small slice of…

CRTs were smaller displays in general which helped make the lower resolution images look better. I think that had a larger impact on perceived image quality than anything. It’s not that CRTs were fuzzy, it’s that LCDs produce more jagged images when displaying images lower than its native resolution. The CRT is…

The goal of upscaling the backgrounds isn’t to create detail out of thin air that was never there in the original low resolution backgrounds. If you throw one of these scenes on a 55 inch modern TV, even using black bars to get the 4:3 aspect ratio, the pixel density is so low it’s going to look bad and maybe be…