Usually far behind. It used to be that they’d be among the first, but it seems that Verizon et al now require their own sign off on firmware updates for unlocked phones, which they wait for until after their own branded handsets get it. Worse, I believe Samsung will wait to release it until ALL carriers approve the…

I wonder if they were one of the people that bought an empty ps5 box from ebay for hundreds of dollars.

Probably something exceedingly stupid like a new Nike or Mt Dew

It’d be fun to see a lawyer chime in on this, but I suspect an extraterrestrial would not actually be illegal since immigration laws assume that the people they apply to are human. No one is trying to deport random coyotes or rabbits that cross the border.

I’m kind of wondering if whatever pranksters started setting these things up ever imagined that one of them would end like this...

Dr. Evil might have too many scruples.

PuTiN iS oUr FrIeNd!

Same here. Sure... it won’t cause you to be in a silent bubble as if you were in a sensory deprivation tank. But it’s good enough that once I have music or other audio going, I no longer hear the noise. I haven’t taken mine out on the street in NYC because I don’t live there, but for a noisy office environment?…

So true. I remember playing through Yakuza 6 when I had a kid the exact same age as Haruto... Man, the emotions were strong.

Problem is, he doesn’t understand that President !=God Emperor because his sycophants treat him as such... It will be fun seeing reality hit him in the face come Jan 20.

I’m definitely not skipping it, just putting it off until later! There’s way more to love to Yakuza than just the combat.

Law of video games and Disney movies:
1) If a dad is a good dad, or could be perceived as a good father figure, he must die in the first act.
2) If a dad is a bad dad... well, see above.

Kiryu is the kind of dad I wish I was. Baby got a problem? Don’t worry. Daddy will curbstomp all the goons until problem goes away.

I have this in my queue to play but I was really disappointed by the change to an RPG-like combat. I was really looking forward to stomping some faces and turn-based combat felt... very not-Yakuza to me. I’ll definitely go back to it, but for now it’s been moved behind Valhalla which is scratching that combat itch a…

Yeah, it actually makes for funny game moments at times. Another time I got a call from the blue from one of my potential recruits asking to join up. I was confused until I checked her profile and found out that apparently the random dude I ran over was a knee breaker that was after her for some kind of debts.

Man, that could potentially be an awesome game mechanic if they structured the whole game like a heist movie. Imagine every mission having three phases: recon, planning, and execution. Recon could be done in any which way you’d like, but then the planning phase basically lays out how the mission will go: say, for…

Yeah the weakness of the getaway driver is that they can’t actually act as a getaway driver - you have to basically know ahead of time that you’re going to have a car chase and then choose them, and like you said, that happens only a handful of times in the story. It would be nice is if you have the getaway driver on…

Haha, exactly my story! I’ve had some crashes (ok, a lot of crashes...) but the most annoying by far is a bizarre audio glitch that causes voice overs and only voice audio to start to stutter horribly. Worst part is that if the audio say, takes 10 seconds to play but the stutter makes it take longer, the game will…

The game actually has a pretty deep mechanic for whether people like or dislike (or even hate) Dedsec. In fact, I was trying to recruit someone when I found that she suddenly hated Dedsec and could no longer be recruited... Turned out that her brother was an Albion guard who I hospitalized. Oops!

This sounds like the beginnings of a Black Mirror episode and I want to see it.