I know you have to validate a digital game’s licence (on PSN for example) before you can play it, but I was under the impression that once that game is validated on your Primary account, it does not expire that licence. It’s admittedly been a while since I’ve tried it, but I have definitely had a lapse in internet…

That’s not entirely true... I mean, in the one sense, yes, you never “own” any games at all; when you buy a title you are only purchasing a limited licence to play it on a particular platform for the life of the delivery system of the content. (Disk, DL service, etc.) That is actually expanding nowadays further than…

I’ve admittedly never tried it, but from what I understand you can’t actually complete the game if you select Easy for every stage. I believe it’s intended as more of an assist for allowing you to learn the patterns (and replay the stage on normal) than it is an actual way to play through the entire game.

Incidentally,…

Guy’s a hell of an artist for sure and I don’t mean to take anything away from him in the least, but I don’t know how rare or overwhelmingly difficult of a problem this is, at least anecdotally anyway... I worked as an artist for years being colorblind, and met many other people in related fields who also were…

Said this above, and I don’t know how universally accepted it is, but I have always understood color deficiency to be considered a part of a larger “colorblind” umbrella term.

I always refer to myself simply as colorblind (despite not actually suffering from acromatposia/monochromacy), and I’m not convinced that’s…

The thing is, I highly doubt most people would understand what I meant if I said, “I have color-vision deficiencies”, and I really don’t think it’s quite as black and white (no pun intended) as you’re making it out to be...

I have been referring to it simply as colorblindness since I was first diagnosed as a child, and…

Yeah, I ordered it from Amazon myself, and I’m really not feeling super-confident about that. They have failed me on pre-orders on more than a few occasions, and somehow I doubt there are a shit-ton of these packages to go around...

It’s true, but it’s not really the CD costing that. They put together an entire audio/video package for it. (Likely since few would buy a CD if they didn’t.)

It’s a pile of stuff, including a screen with some kind of visual content, a speaker, a digital code for the album , some art, etc...

Probably a lot of truth to that... Maynard was on the Rogan show last week and made it pretty clear he’s been trying to talk the other guys into going streaming for awhile and they were dragging ass on it. To be fair to them though, from the numbers I’ve seen, the money bands get from it is pathetic.

Yeah, that and the general artistry of Adam’s/their packaging was 90% of the reason I bought it. The other 10 just being that I bought all the others and even though they are all in a closet somewhere... I’d still know I didn’t have one. ;)

Paid $48 to pre-order the CD... Don’t have a CD player.

Because games are too large now to load directly into RAM. They have to be swapped/streamed from another source of memory as you play, and optical media is too slow to accomplish that. Reading from an HDD is 4-6 times faster than from a BluRay.

If that’s “why” you’re still buying disks. Stop. Those days have passed.

Mos…

So. Much. This. It’s the part that completely befuddles me about this entire hubbub. I could understand if it was a specific fatality or character you wanted or something, but just this generic “I hate that I can’t immediately unlock everything” mentality, when 98% of it is probably mostly meaningless to the person…

The hardware alone is worth close to $200 (retail) if they’re using all Sanwa parts. $50 in sticks/tops, another $50 in buttons, then factor in the wiring, CPU, hdmi/wifi/etc... It’s really pretty reasonably priced to what it would cost you to build it yourself.

They’re claiming to be using all Sanwa parts, which are pretty much the gold standard in arcade hardware (depending on personal preference to some degree.) It would easily cost you around $150 just to buy the hardware at retail prices, so it’s not a bad deal at all if it’s really in the $250 range, especially once you…

I’m equally baffled by the people who can’t understand how insanely useful it can be... It honestly reminds me of how I felt about smartphones when I still had a flip. They seemed wholly unnecessary to me, and now (like everyone else,) I can’t fathom living without one. That’s exactly how I feel about Alexa now.

I…

Fair enough, I’m just happily surprised at the slight resurchange in the genre in the past year or so. We had a severe drought for a long time there that seems to be kind of over.

If you liked AOE, I strongly recommend Northgard. I bought that blind last night and ended up playing it till freaking 6 am. It doesn’t…

That’s not really so true anymore. It’s certainly slimmer pickens than in the heyday, but there’s quite a few TBS and RTS games coming out on PC these days, even some with pretty solid budgets and hitting consoles.

Just off the top of my head stuff I’ve played in the last 6 months: Northgard, Into the Breach, Civ 6,…

Additional counter-point: While it’s likely not a 1-to-1 trade-off, these machines create jobs as well as take them.

I’m a developer at a company that creates the software for these (POS) machines. My company employs hundreds of people, and at much higher salaries than your average cashier is making.

Just got the 1660TI (Gaming X 6G) this week, and I was literally in the same boat as you. Had a GTX 970, and I only play in 1080p.

I’m extremely pleased with the upgrade so far. In Far Cry 5 I went from high 40s at high settings to now averaging 55-57 fps with all settings completely maxed. Division was hitching up on…