Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

The AI in that game was an arse. If you got a boost, it got a boost. It would maliciously punish you if you made a single unforced error and was just generally spiteful.

Though I completed the main game (except what I seem to recall being a mirror mode), I never felt any desire to replay…

I’m just going to leave this here:

As others have written, a lot of people DO use their artificial Christmas tree for 20+ years. Your information about the average lifetime of artificial trees is based on faulty data, if indeed you used any data at all.

Please provide multiple independent, scientific sources to show that the average lifespan of…

I was burnt badly by Wolf Children, particularly the casual harshness and the horrible message of endless sacrifice that it demonstated. I suppose one could argue that it’s an analogy for how mixed ethnicity children feel in general (i.e., torn between worlds), but it didn’t leave me with a good feeling.

Don’t get me…

Must be very inconvenient for Valve staff that they aren’t allowed to count to 3.

“1, 2... unrelated side project!”

Fully understood. Half Life 3 confirmed people.

tl;dw?

I’d contest that the Civ VI appraisal is correct, based on the thousands of mixed or negative reviews for it. I suggest the following correction:

A Good Match For: People who have never played a Civ game or people who didn’t really like Civ V.
Not A Good Match For: Anyone who actively loves or loved Civ V.

The intrinsic…

Hi Mike. You’re confusing Gigabytes (GB) and Giga Binary Bytes / Gibibytes (GiB). A 1TB hard drive is 1000GB. This is consequently less in GiB. It’s an understandable confusion, as Microsoft mixes these two up also. But yeah, it’s 1000GB, not 1024. That’s around 931GiB, which the OS will incorrectly label as GB.

I’m hoping this marks the end of the silly “toys as DLC” trend, although given what a cash-cow it is, I doubt it will be.

Hoping the developers will now make a PC port (ideally to Steam) with the ability to download DLC packs at a reasonable cost or launch a full deluxe version with all the DLC, sans the toys.

For the…

If it’s not an HD transfer of the original, unaltered trilogy, then it’s not the “good” one, just the “best that’s commercially available”. We’ll have to make do with the “despecialized” versions until they finally release those.

If it’s not an HD transfer of the original, unaltered trilogy, then it’s not the “good” one, just the “best that’s…

Once the fad has died down, I hope they consider a version for PC with DLC instead of the need to buy figure packs. If you could get the core game and individual DLC packs for a reasonable price, I’d be most interested. As it is, I’ll sadly never be prepared to invest the ridiculous sums required for figures that I’ve…

Don’t suppose there’s a transcript of this? I profoundly dislike podcasts and would rather skim-read through the salient points, which you can’t do with audio.

In any case, I feel like there should be a clear distinction between cheating in a multiplayer game and cheating in a single player game (where you are not on…

Guess I’m not cool then. Meh: I’ve never been cool and I’m happy not to be, if I’m honest.

“Zynga Co-Founder Wants To Make American Politics More Like FarmVille”

Built on the back of the sunk-cost fallacy?

I just don’t like the name of the show. Attack Of Titans would make sense. Alternatively if they lived on Titan. I’m guessing it’s either a bad translation or it’s one of those titles that only suddenly makes sense when you get to the end like The Crying Of Lot 49.

Yes, there is: not liking Catan.

Yes, there is: not liking Catan.

Sequel will be called, “Every game ever made on every system ever”.

I paid less for it brand new on Amazon.co.uk in rip-off Britain, where you apply the more-of-a-rip-off-before-the-post-Brexit-currency-correction 1:1 conversion ratio. (Well, technically I bought the more-sensibly-sized DVD collection of production seasons 1 through 4 and 6 through 7 for £30 and the movie “Epics” -…

I paid less for it brand new on Amazon.co.uk in rip-off Britain, where you apply the…

As someone who struggles with accuracy in FPS games (I don’t play them often enough to get good, plus mild RSI), I fully feel you there. My advice is to find a small group of people who just play for fun and company: that way, if you lose, you still win.