It takes a few extra steps, but you can run most mods on the Game Pass version. The main exception is the script extender, since it uses a modified executable which is handled differently on Game Pass.

While some fans are trouncing MJ’s vehicular oopsie as developer Insomniac Games “not [understanding] the assignment”

I’m not sure about the icon, I’ve been following the reddit posts about the problem but it didn’t happen to me.

It doesn’t really work like that though. The powers that are good at level 10 are only fractionally worse at level 1, and the powers that suck at level 1 always suck.

Just to be clear, the NG+ stuff only gives you a weak ship, an outfit that’s only useful in the early part of each run, and marginally enhanced powers. It’s completely optional and just meant for when you decide to come back to do another playthrough a few months down the line.

No, it’s not on purpose. You’re supposed to be able to get all 24 powers in a single run, including the first run, and max out all temple powers by NG+10 (ie. the full 24 temples each run, every run).

Would be a cool side quest though, some scientist/engineer has created a network of cell towers and satellites that allow people to at least talk across a solar system and needs to activate it.

After the per-install fee structure, I can see the next headline:

Is Whitehurst worse than Riccitiello? The only recent controversy I could find involving him was IBM shareholders saying his salary was too high. Granted I haven’t followed Red Hat’s business side very much so it’s possible I’ve missed something in how it ran under him.

They’d have to shutter three studios to afford it, but it sure sounds like the kind of stupid shit they’d do.

They’re fair comparisons and I’ll give them some more thought when I’m not so swamped at work. My first reaction would be to say the balance of pros and cons aren’t really the same between your examples and what we’re talking about here.

That’s like saying crime will always exist so there’s no point trying to stop it happening in your house. There’s a lot can be done to minimise the presence of gambling on a platform or game. Where companies don’t act, it’s because profit takes precedence over any ethical considerations.

Gambling needs the ability to trade, whether it’s through Steam market or something else. I don’t know off the top of my head of any games that don’t have trading but still have gambling.

You have a pretty clear pattern of inventing fictions to cope with things not going the way you want, but I think it’s interesting that simply mentioning you tended bar upset you so much you think it was ‘mocking bartending’ while still somehow remaining oblivious to the fact that actually insulting someone’s…

Removing the system entirely would remove its legitimate benefit for players, you’re right. My view is that benefit isn’t worth the cost, coming from the perspective of seeing how damaging gambling can be, especially when it’s unregulated, and especially when any kid can join in as well. No judgement at all on the…

I feel the similarly about the Steam market. It’s pretty notorious for money laundering, you still hear stories sometimes of people selling a trading card or a worthless CSGO weapon and getting $1000+ for it because a launderer or money transfer fucked up and bought from the wrong person.

Where are you seeing hate? I just think you’re lying - it would fit the pattern of behaviour you’ve shown throughout this conversation.

This move in particular (not speculating on what Epic might do down the line) is definitely a good thing. The secondary markets in games like this and CSGO are rife with unregulated gambling and money laundering, they’re a shitshow that should never have happened in the first place. The trade-off of not being able to…

Which institution is that, the bar you’ve tended for the last 15 years?

Here’s something I wish I knew before playing: the chromatic aberration is nightmarish. I’m able to play it, but it constantly looks blurry and unfocused and there’s no way right now to switch it off.