VERY cool, this model has worked really well for the other folks who have tried it.
Literally coincidently, I was pruning Patreon subs this morning. Definitely willing to send some money their way to support them and see how this goes.

Sorry let me clarify some things here. It seems like folks keep thinking I’m attacking these games (games I too love) as something wrong, and that liking them makes you a bad person. That’s not the case, I’m merely stating examples. No need to defend MH to me, I love that series.

So I think there’s some confusion here on the point I was trying to make, and it feels like you’re trying to make this a discussion about blame, which isn’t what this conversation is. Saying our culture is influenced by colonialism is like saying chicken nuggets are made of chicken, it’s just a simple fact with no…

A great point! You’re not wrong, having things rise to the top because they support the power fiction that is attractive (and enjoyable from a gameplay standpoint) is a big part of it.
I think large AAA studios (who tend to be risk averse) don’t experiment nearly enough, but that only reinforces the point you made,…

I dunno, to me that’s where it gets way more interesting from a game design perspective.
For what it’s worth I don’t think they’re saying Link is some sort of imperialist, or that you’re a bad person for liking the game (it’s rad as hell, you should love it), they’re just pointing out how ingrained ideas in society…

So there’s a few things here, for one, this new headset seems to have a narrower tracking field of view, not to mention less cameras to track with which means the problems the quest 2 controllers had would be exacerbated. Secondly, part of the reason for a tracking ring was so the headset could easily track the IR…

The shittier controls is a real kneecap, especially at that price.

I get I can upgrade to the better Quest Pro controllers, but why introduce controls that are worse than the other two sets (Quest 2 and Quest pro) that you already sell? Especially when the most popular games are things like Beat Saber, which require…

There was a joke in my friends group about a decade ago, about taking Gundam anime, and just adding the Ventrilo push to talk sound to conversations taking place between mech pilots in different mechs.

I had to Google the name Ventrilo, because it had lapsed entirely from my brain by this point.

Shit, the company that services the place I live is getting in legal trouble because they charge us for “broadband” but no one can register “broadband” speeds, even with the bar at 25mbps! We’re technically included in that 99%, but it’s only on paper, realistically a “good” connection day is 15mbps.

The only internet available where I live barely meets the basic definition of “broadband”. There’s actually legal shit going on around that because we’re being sold “broadband” but don’t break 14mbps download speeds. Streaming games is literally impossible on that.

Streaming is the future in the sense “it might happen…

THPS is just so good. If you had any enjoyment from the OG releases, it’s well well worth it here. 

Gonna second this. The Genesis and Saturn Retro Bit controllers are pretty rad and work great with the Switch, have more features, and are cheaper than these, while also still being officially licensed Sega products.

They also have the benefit of being able to be used with the PC as well.

They mention that the $50k is the industry average via Glassdoor, at a national level, not that it’s the salary at Blizzard. Blizzard is *below* that average.

Maybe it’s just me, and it’s a small complaint, but I would have preferred a more uniform place for the number tiles to go. Being at all different heights and angles just feels bad to me, for everything else looking so polished and beautiful.

Don’t know what a good solution would be (defined divots would make the…

You start an expedition with a new character, and a specific loadout. In the case of this one, you start with most of the stuff you need to get zipping about to nearby systems with a freighter.

I think it took me about 20 minutes to complete the entire first phase of this expedition. With a total of 5 phases (and phase…

Should be pretty achievable. As someone who’s played a ton of the game, it took me about 2-3 hours of playtime to get to the point I could get it.

If you’re brand-brand new? Use a walk through, and some internet help, and maybe add a couple hours to that? You should be able to kill it this weekend if you wanted to.

Oh man, you’ve got Martian and Arrival, but I think Apollo 13 should be on the list too.

Relax, I’m just pointing out the technical reasons for *why* it looks bad, and why that gives me pause.

Yes, like I said, there’s plenty of time to fix it, and I hope they do. But Gamefreak’s history with poor performance makes me think they’re not going to actually resolve the issue, and will instead aim for a barely “…

That’s not how game animations work though, and this is clearly a technique that’s used in other games.
To simplify it, there’s two sides to the animation, the one the artist makes, and the coding side done in game. This sort of stuttering is specifically a thing done (intentionally) on the coding side. The artist’s…

You know I thought so at first too, but it’s too inconsistent. It cuts in and out throughout the whole video, and doesn’t apply evenly across a scene or Pokemon, and never seems to apply to the character.