This.

I don't understand why more people don't use ad blockers. If you enjoy someone's content, they usually have a Patreon. Even a dollar a month there is more than they would have earned from you sitting through 30 seconds of garbage advertisement.

I’ve seen this trend among leftists young and old. Essentially, removing words from your vocabulary that reinforce existing hierarchies. I figure there are internal benefits as well as taking away some of the arguments misogynists/fascists use to recruit impressionable young men.

Men (predominantly straight and white) are in crisis these days. It’s mostly existential and internal even if being driven by outside factors like income inequality and their diminishing position as a privileged class. That said, anyone who is a member of a marginalized group would be right to scoff at the fits being…

I get what you’re saying but the context is important.

Yeah, a corpse is just a corpse but the person they used to be potentially had meaningful relationships with still living people. I guess if it was some dead guy from the 1800s it would be fine? There's a lot of grey area for sure.

Right. Granted, I don’t think this is the result of some grand corporate conspiracy, but rather the culmination of many smaller conspiracies such as the conspiracy to make professional artists redundant. There’s also conspiracies to price fix, bust unions, monopolize industries, etc. but certainly the conspiracy to…

AI is not going away. It’s only getting better faster, and the average consumer is not discerning enough to care if the art in their media was authored by a human being or an algorithm.

There is get rich quick, except it requires a combination of circumstance and already being rich. Put another way, getting rich is, as a rule, not for poor people.

It's cruising right now but you need workers to run the site. And yeah, he "blew up a liberal echo chamber" but he had to torch the site and billions of dollars to do it. Proof that if you give someone enough unaccountable power, their ego will result in them sitting on their own balls. The only thing more…

You’re absolutely right in that modern games force us to change our perspective, particularly in the case of online games like NMS. Updates happen. Games aren’t static in the way they used to be. It’s not like firing up an SNES cartridge to play the exact same game from 30 years ago.

The story is obviously not done. Taylor is free to bring the issue to the public.

I wonder what it’s like to think this is an opinion worthy of consideration.

VR is cool, but it’s not there yet. In fact, I don’t think there’s a single device in production right now that will be part of the mainstreaming of VR.

This has to be a problem they have because they’re not putting any time or effort into solving it. Blizzard has so many metrics for player performance that I’m sure they can find some solution that lets console players compete on an even playing field. Adjust different fields of auto-aim strength until the average…

Good and successful are mutually exclusive.

Wooting makes a keyboard with a ten-key. It’s the one I picked up.

I get what you’re saying but in the sense that this article is making fun of a certain kind of gamer that I just don’t see very often anymore. Granted, that doesn’t mean they’re not around.

The hype for the system was somewhat warranted but, like other novel procedural systems, it was relied on too heavily as a way of generating content. Maybe it was necessary, considering how thin the story was in both of the Shadow games, but the sequel in particular grew grating at times.

Thirty years ago? Yeah, you can draw a direct line from then to now by way of causality. You’re making it sound like it’s ancient history.