Great point. It’s 2015. Why are games not perfect, where’s my flying car. Jeez. Not acceptable.

Very good to hear. Hopefully they fix the display glitch soon, but at least your components don’t just vanish forever.

Nope. If the system destroys an item for a specific component, any other components are lost. Unfortunately, tossing everything on the ground and scrapping it all by hand is the only way to avoid losing rarer materials that way.

Speaking of Daily Show alumni, I was surprised this morning to see that Fox (of all networks) allowed Rob Riggle & friends to explicitly target the Redskins’ “racist name” (“it’s soooooo racist”).

Me too...kinda. I played Ultima VI for a year without realizing I was meant to do something besides roam the continent while murdering everyone I met and stealing everything I could carry. Then, one day, I stumbled across a cave containing statues who told me, each in turn, that I was an asshole who’d lost the game a…

I suppose an awful joke deserves a worse troll. Wonder how long Nathan waited for a chance to drop that beauty on the world.

Fuck yourself then, and fuck me, too. As continuing consumers of the NFL’s product, most of us here are accomplices.

Thank you, Jonah, for this unique and personal glimpse into the lives of those who’ve helped create the worlds I’ve spent thousands of hours exploring. The extraordinarily gifted yet humble perfectionist is a rare breed of colleague we should all be so lucky to work with. Adam’s labors, and your own, are appreciated…

I’m imagining a Space Quest III-style software cubicle-farm, in which a nervous developer writes this heartfelt message with an Activision henchman’s Jell-O gun aimed at his head.

I can vouch for that.

The game select screen says “page 1/1” at the bottom. The five known games fit on one page with room fox a sixth, suggesting there are or will be more. Seems like a cheap and easy way to crank out DLC from the guys who brought us horse armor.

Was sad to see Dog and Cat disappear back to...wherever. Best NPCs in the game by a million miles. I’d kinda hoped they’d just follow me around forever and say kooky shit.

There is no leverage. China doesn’t need artificial islands to halt exports with a snap of the fingers, bankrupt Wal-Mart overnight, and plunge America into nationwide chaos, but then the trillions of US dollars owed to Chinese banks would become forfeit.

It’d be a first.

Their motives certainly are confounding. The construction, development and maintenance of these artificial islands must be an obscenely expensive project, especially if the plan is to “switch off” a crucial artery of international trade, thereby wrecking the global economy.

Give that Grantland money to Fake Rapoport. He’s batting higher than Legit Rovell, Stephen A., et al.

That font makes me feel all warm and cozy. Time for some Mechwarrior.

As a kid, when leisure time was a thing that existed, I put together many models. When it came to realistically weathering military vehicles, a phrase I heard often from veteran hobbyists was, “Tanks get filthy, airplanes merely dirty.” The Tupolev pictured up top puts that maxim to the test. Cheers to the guys who…

You didn’t get laid.

“In the sea of endless bullets you fire off at countless enemies without a moment’s hesitation or afterthought, the fact I got the player to hesitate even for a split second and actually consider his actions before he pulled that trigger– that makes me feel very accomplished.”