It’s about building a respectable, corporate, cannabis business. As you can do in California or Colorado. But the distinction is totally lost on Facebook and YouTube since they don’t do nuance.

Those are some nice games, but goddamn that thing is tacky.

The funny thing is that given how corporate and safe the game is it’s actually much less bad than, say, PewDiePie or the Pauls, but YouTube is happy to send plenty of advertising their way.

At this point any zombies are too many zombies. It’s done. Played out. Find some other cliche.

Any time Facebook talks about Big Brother it is creepy. Okay, Facebook is creepy even when it doesn’t talk about Big Brother.

‘Big Brother Is Watching’ is one of those ‘HAHA it’s funny because it’s true’ things - like when Ajit Pai jokes about being Verizon’s bitch.

This gives you tons more privacy, and the system performance is positive. Like an adblocker, you’ll burn less bandwidth and CPU by using it.  I don’t want to oversell that, you probably won’t even notice any difference, but it is going to make it a teeny bit faster.

Fun fact: If you use this (I do), your Win10 installation is now spying on you even less than a Win7 or Win8 installation, since they backported a lot of that telemetry to those.

Oh shit, you’re right, the divorce. Probably still some Activision thinking there then. That’s hard to wash off.

A lot of the potential ‘positives’ in here are exactly what we heard about Anthem too.

How about just giving the dang money back rather than just making the item completely unusable for six months?

It would probably be healthy (for themselves) for those people to stop frothing every time the game is mentioned at this point. They’ve been lied to about a lot of games, and this is one of the few that’s actually been updated over many years, for free, to meet those initial promises.

Certain corners of the internet just wallowed in the launch issues (and yes, there were lies) like pigs in shit. They loved to hate it. And at the time the game maybe deserved it, but this became a self-licking lollipop that has sustained itself to this day. Like some gamers still sneer at Kotaku as a source just…

Difficulty for Anthem: EA

I’m not accusing F76 of being P2W, just saying this is exactly what a lot of Asian P2W MMOs do.  The reasons are hopefully different.

The Elites are really nice, but on the inside they’re still the same old soft plastic as the regular controllers.

At least we’re (hopefully) past the point where people would have wanted you to punch Sean Murray in the face.

I was playing it for the free weekend, and while I could mostly deal with towns being full of people with dumb names jumping up and down a lot, having the dungeons be full of spazzes is just the f@#$ing worst.

Is the loot system secretly driven by an elaborate AI system that keeps track of everything you do so it can get you to spend more money on the game? [no]

Another mode that isn’t available currently in the Early Access release of Blades is PVP. So no idea how that will work or if it is any good.