Generally speaking, it really didn’t make for a better game, either, just increasing the amount of paperwork and time spent looking things up. There’s a reason that kind of differentiation got dropped from just about every game system, and it’s not entirely political in nature.

Yes, yes, the old FFXI excuse.

Twenty dollars.

It’s trying to map the incredibly complex UI to a controller. You’d wind up doing an Ultra Combo just to place some pretty basic stuff.

My wife and I have been donating a dollar a month for the last five years at least (it’s been that long), and will continue to do so as long as they continue to work on the game. We also sent a one-time donation equivalent to a AAA game for each of us, based solely on the enjoyment we got out of the game, and we’ll be…

That’s actually not ideal. The current setup is specifically because this is a passion project that they did not intend to monetize, and they have been able to focus on it solely because of the support of the folks who play their game. They would not want to relinquish their code to anybody (and have rebuffed any…

While DF has supported tilesets for quite some time now, the entire UI is going to receive an overhaul after the latest content patch. This includes new features for graphics sets that will be available in both the Steam and Classic branches, support for sound, and an interface update. The Steam version will also be…

This shouldn’t be surprising. Being further from the Sun than Mercury and having a different orbital period than the Earth or Mercury would inherently mean that Venus would spend more time further away from the Earth than Mercury. The misleading part here is that this is speaking about the planets, not their orbital…

I do agree that legal immigration should outstrip illegal immigration by a fair margin. Ideally, only legal immigration would occur. However, the current policies of harassment and restricting legal immigration are not the way forward. Legal immigration with contingency for employment or education would solve the…

One thing you’ll note is that the praise is always accompanied by a phrase akin to “ridiculous bullshit.” Because it is. The series is completely, utterly goofy in concept and execution, and that’s why it’s charming and fun. It’s not meant to be truly taken seriously in any way. FFXV, however, is very much a classic…

There’s a world of difference between playing a game with a friend or two and playing an MMO. Among other things, the scale of an MMO limits the complexity of the mechanics at play, which in turn limits what players can do; further, having huge numbers of people running around diminishes the “chosen hero” storyline of…

There’s a difference between “being callous towards workers” and understanding how corporations are structured. That said, these layoffs weren’t directed towards underperforming sections of the company, from the description, but were rather arbitrary, exemplifying the worst traits of poorly run corporations. While…

Did you actually read the article? The people cut were in areas of the company that were not producing any value. That means that they weren’t producing profitable products, nor were they in any way increasing the good will of consumers (like you) in the company. They were literally costing the company money while not…

Honestly, the shift in request from equal opportunity poorly written characters to equal opportunity well written characters is a positive change. It means that we’re seeing more equality in bad writing. An overall call for improved writing is a hugely positive sea change, and one I’m glad to have seen in my lifetime.

Exclusivity is pretty much the enemy of competition, so it’s not terribly surprising.

While Videl, who is a regular human being, shows impressive fighting potential in a series full of extraterrestrial threats, Jiren is one of the strongest characters in the Dragon Ball universe.

Well, that depends on whether she uses it during the next week, but yeah. I think one problem there is finding a good GitHub alternative. In fact, most of these articles really highlight one thing: the big tech companies are big because there aren’t any good alternatives that aren’t from big tech companies. Because,…

Says the person on the internet. Our lives are defined by what were once luxury products, but have become necessities, like high-speed internet access, information repositories, computers, smartphones, cell phones, phones, cars, etc. You only have to look at other nations or even parts of our own nation to see people…

The problem with just using an old laptop is verifying that none of the components come from a tech giant, verifying that that particular Linux distro contains no components with code from a tech giant, and the like. That’s a lot of auditing, and for the average person, a pre-built, pre-verified laptop is easier.

I think what you’re missing here is, not only is her tech sphere largely composed of Apple products, so are those of the people around her. And it’s incredibly difficult to maintain those contacts while extricating yourself from Apple’s products.