I mean, Rockstar did this with Grand Theft Auto Online, and those servers were absolutely hilarious to visit, provided you had a known cheater whose game you could join. People spawning street cars all over the place, guns that fire jets, people flying around, my character’s head getting turned into a lamppost for…

To be fair, the “let’s become a democracy” idea was laughed out of the room. Instead, they became an elective monarchy, which was a reasonably common form of medieval/Renaissance government.

There are plenty of men on the show who act just as monstrous as Daenarys did

Jon needs to scream at one more dragon at least before he gets to mope his way to the throne he doesn’t want.

...they didn’t say it was ruining their fast, though. Nor did they demand that he stop eating. They just commented to the fact that it was making them hungry, and he decided to stop eating on screen as a courtesy. Not sure what you’re getting upset over, since it doesn’t appear to be anything in the actual article.

Great, now I have this mental image of dragons with squeaky helium roars. Thanks for that.

To be fair, the dragons already shouldn’t be able to fly from a physics perspective, so presumably adding armor wouldn’t really upset that balance much - that ship already sailed.

I’m still just stunned by how incredibly, deeply incompetent that whole thing was. Like... they LITERALLY had an entire episode demonstrating the threat ballistae pose to dragons. And they... didn’t expect armed enemy warships? When one of the key advantages Cersei has is naval superiority via the Iron Fleet?…

his ultimate is an impenetrable shield

his ultimate is an impenetrable shield

Also, nothing that this game does is particularly visually intensive, and Source can handle some utterly ridiculous stuff without crashing (see: countless videos of people setting off hundreds of explosive barrels at once in Garry’s Mod), so I rather doubt it’s that.

Yeah, sniping is pretty much pointless in this game. Especially since enemies are rocking high-level shields and helmets by the time you typically are able to fully kit out a sniper rifle, so even head shots aren’t guaranteed kills.

I dunno about that. I regularly played a shotgun-packing Infiltrator in Battlefield 4, and in close quarters it was pretty devastating. Situational, granted, but then that kind of fits the role of shotguns anyway.

That was a driver issue more than a game issue, and for NVIDIA at least, updated drivers that address the issue were released yesterday. Not sure about the status of AMD.

...if you only put ten hours into it, I don’t really think you have grounds to make an informed opinion on it, to be honest. 10 hours in isn’t even to the mid-game, and the mid-game and (especially) the late-game are where the bulk of the bugs and poor design choices are.

Also, “I didn’t run into any problems” isn’t a…

Having put quite a few hours into the game, both in the beta and in the full release: yes. Yes, it really, truly is quite bad. It’s a broken, buggy mess built on a questionable design foundation. I mean, I get that my perspective is entirely subjective. But then, so is yours, and yours is very firmly in the minority.…

The Unreal engine, which is still used extensively today, debuted in 1998. So did GoldSrc, which was the direct predecessor to Source (akin to Gamebryo leading to the Creation Engine).

The problem is not repeated usage of the same engine framework. The problem is them not putting the required effort in.

Yeah, it’s definitely a matter of where you draw the line. Personally, if something neatly and easily fits within our understanding of the laws of physics and is only lacking a refinement or manufacturing process currently beyond our means to produce, then I don’t consider it to be fantastical. Material science is a…

I don’t know that I’d even consider the Epstein Drive fantastical, given that it’s essentially just an incredibly efficient fusion engine. It doesn’t operate on any principles that aren’t compatible with our modern understanding of science, it’s just better than what we can manage. Which is the ballpark of hard sci-fi…

Not really. The Outside Context Problem trope in full does show up in the most recent book with a bit of a twist, and you’re right that the foundation is being laid out for it in the show, but that’s really mostly just a catalyst for the main conflict and drama of the series: human beings.

The Expanse is not about…