Yes, every single fact-checking site is immediately disregarded by the right as “liberal bias,” because of the people who supposedly own them. Nevermind that they all link directly to every source they cite, people who have decided this refuse to even engage with the argument as to why what they believe might not be…

I have a friend who refuses to believe any source that’s presented to him of any type unless it’s a piece of actual government legislation, because he believes the media is all lying and trying to sell a narrative. However, he believes that crazy theories like Pizzagate are viable, and often links to completely nutso…

FWIW, I LOVE exploring Super Mario Odyssey, and I agree with your write-up that the purple coins are a great way to incentivize the player to poke around in strange corners. This game is so freaking dense that you can spend hours in each environment being constantly rewarded for your curiosity. It’s fantastic.

It’s…

I love the idea of a purple coin radar, but I hate the idea that it’s only unlockable by buying a collectible toy outside of the game.

I do wish there were some sort of mechanism in the game for tracking down the last of the purple coins. I only have about 3 left in most of the levels, and I have absolutely no idea where to look.

The original is a GREAT kids show, but a lot of what made it great was the goofiness and the rapid pacing that the new show doesn’t have. I like Bill Nye, but the unsung heroes of the original Bill Nye were the post production team.

I got it on PC, played it for around 3 hours, and haven’t really touched it yet. It just never clicked with me. The controls didn’t feel intuitive, and the whole thing felt clunky and unpolished, which was weird, because I really liked Human Revolution. I should have waited and gotten it for free.

Oh well. Maybe I’ll…

“Conservatives” are getting bashed on this because it’s the Republicans on the FCC board who are going to vote to overturn net neutrality (none of the Democrats are voting to re-classify the internet), and Trump put Pai in place to do this. It wasn’t a party-line issue 5 years ago, but it is now.

The power of the orb knows no bounds

He brought a gun to a baseball bat fight and still ran away. That was unreal.

I’m calling it now: this report is bogus. There’s no way that Paramount would greenlight an R rated Star Trek, especially after Beyond underperformed, and despite what people think about Tarantino, he understands what makes his favorite movies (and TV shows) tick. He’s not going to demand that Star Trek is R rated,…

Not easily. The “wall” behind me is technically a closet door, and the Rift sensors are made to stand on a flat surface with a relatively flimsy stand (https://www.amazon.com/Oculus-Sensor-pc/dp/B0727WDPX6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1512663637&sr=8-2&keywords=rift+sensor).

My space is right up against the wall, so I don’t really have any space behind me to set a sensor. You do get some benefit from two front-facing sensors, though (one on the left, one on the right); since they’re sensors rather than emitters, it increases the horizontal space you have to move around. In short, though,…

I’m totally with you if you’re playing in a large enough space, or somehow you’re in the future where wireless headsets are a thing. But say you’re more like me, and you’ve got half a room in an apartment for VR, and 2 front-facing sensors. Completely free rotation isn’t really viable, since the game loses track of…

I picked it up on Steam, and aside from all sorts of wonkiness I’ve run into trying to play it on my Oculus Rift (you have to figure out the button mapping for yourself since it’s designed for the Vive wand, and things like navigating menus are stunningly convoluted), it’s been pretty fun. Like people mentioned above,…

Yeah, I’m actually glad that they post the motion controls, because I barely use them and there are times when they’re actually necessary to complete a challenge.

Vishnevetsky often goes against the grain of critical consensus, and I usually tend to side with the majority, but I never get the sense that he’s being contrarian for the sake of it. Armond White has built his career on hating what everybody loves and vice versa, and his reviews are hacky and often inaccurate.

Vishneve…

Birdemic is so damn watchable (and re-watchable). Even for the first half, before the Birdemic begins, there are enough weird flubs and baffling decisions that it never gets boring.

The Room is a bit harder of a watch, but it’s fascinatingly bad. You should also check out Miami Connection, if you haven’t. Like…

The FTC technically can regulate if given the ability by Congress, but essentially, no, nobody will be regulating the ISPs if Pai has his way https://abovethelaw.com/2017/04/ftc-commissioner-if-the-fcc-kills-net-neutrality-dont-expect-our-help/

The article is misleading in how it describes net neutrality. It WAS the standard from the start; 2005 was just the first time the FCC actually fined anybody. It wasn’t “codified,” but it was the way that the FCC operated, and everybody played by those rules. It wasn’t until 2014, when Verizon argued in court that the…