Touching on the cooling side of things:

Because actors have to convince people they like someone so the story they’re conveying works.

GameFreak made two 3D PlayStation 4/Xbox One titles. So recent console development is not exactly a new frontier for them.

One thing I’ve noticed for a while is that Game Freak seems to want to maintain itself as a small company. As of 2021, they have 167 employees (at least that’s what they report: https://www.gamefreak.co.jp/company/about/). So they’re clearly not concerned with growing rapidly, if growing at all. That number barely…

Considering Game Freak made a PlayStation 4/Xbox One game before the Switch came out (Tembo the Badass Elephant) and then another one after (Little Town Hero), I don’t think they had any real trouble hopping onto a console.

On one hand, even the Switch version of Little Town Hero looks nice, so why doesn’t this game look nice?

If you’re using Windows, 8 GB is the bare minimum for someone who’s basically using the computer to check their emails and watch cat videos or something. Otherwise 16GB if you’re planning on doing things like editing photos, light video editing, or playing games.

I feel like this is also good advice for a lot of other things. If you can afford it now, want it now, and maybe had a few moments to step back and rationalize why you want it, then go ahead and buy it. Otherwise you’ll be mulling and waiting forever for that “perfect moment.”

I don’t really think Japanese companies tend to let themselves be bought out unless they’re in dire straits. The only other reason to be bought out is because the owners of the company want the money and either go start another business or “retire” with a stupid amount.

A little background: I’m on my second car, a base model 2014 Mazda 3 hatchback. My first car was a 2001 2-door Honda Accord. So I haven’t had much in the way of modern creature comforts in cars but there is one disappointment I have. The Mazda is an automatic, but it has that “Manual” mode which lets you do sequential…

I think the biggest thing is to not have the OLED at max brightness if you can avoid it. I’ve owned several devices with OLEDs that were regularly used for years (including my current phone) and none of them showed signs of burn in despite all of them having some static element on them, but I’ve made sure to tame the…

Funny enough, the Gold Saucer is the worst casino ever, if you were to call it a casino. A lot of activities you can do don’t require the casino’s currency and even more of them pay out more than you put in. You have to try extremely hard to lose overall.

And there’s no such thing in FFXIV. At least, nothing that directly affects your ability to play the game. The closest thing maybe are the jump potions from the cash shop, but those are just time savers, not pay-to-win items.

Developers also took advantage of the limitations of composite video. Because of its tendency to bleed colors together, with deliberate pixel placement via dithering, the image would appear to have more colors than the system was capable of actually producing.

There’s an ugly thing that all consoles had to keep in mind: the CRT timing. Everything basically was dictated around it.

I’ve always suspected for the last decade, especially with electronics stores, that Black Friday was just a way to clear out inventory of unsold stock because nobody would purchase it otherwise.

As much as I wish we could organize the gaming collective into a massive boycott, there’s too many people who can’t live without their CoDs, WoW, and whatever else people play. Or worse, they’ll form a counter group because they can’t get their fix.

Er, no. Amex has been providing credit cards for well over a decade (or at least, that’s when I got my first non-bank credit card)

Maybe they could negotiate this now, but few people in the early to mid 2000s thought that they would be re-releasing their games 15+ years later, so contracts in perpetuity didn’t really have much weight when you expected to only print the game for 2-3 years (or for the life of the console)

Regular Car Reviews has an epic rant on people who say that.