He hasn’t got the authority to do that unilaterally, and that’s one of those things (like term limits for Congress) that even a friendly Congress isn’t going to pass for him. The Senate likes having the ability to control who the President puts into senior leadership roles throughout the executive branch - it’s one of…

Weirdly, I actually find this a tiny bit heartening. I mean, it’s in no way actually a good thing, but the alternative is that Donald Trump’s team of bigots and assholes had a detailed plan ready to go on how they were going to fuck the country up.

I was pretty sure from the outset that Trump’s candidacy was a deliberate scam, designed to enrich his “organization” by selling merchandise to rubes, and running events that would allow him to siphon donor money into his various subsidiaries (most of his rallies were held on properties he had an ownership stake in.…

Yes, I know it’s possible. But it’s extremely clunky, particularly in Oblivion. The games are not designed to be played in that mode - it’s really mostly there to give the player a way to see their gear.

Yeah, platforming in a first-person game is a crime (I wanted to say “against humanity” but felt that was excessively hyperbolic). I’ve never ever seen it done at all well. I am inclined to say that it cannot be done well - the nature of the interface precludes it. At least, until and unless there is workable VR with…

I was starting to get a handle on it as I played along, but it was never something that was easy to do with both accuracy and speed - one or the other was reasonable, but not both. Possibly a side-effect of my using a controller to play, but using mouse and keyboard where precise movement - not just aiming - is…

No it isn’t. You can turn your eyes to see another ~30 degrees on your left or right, but you lose at least that much on the opposite side. And, of course, you can turn your actual head to see even further, but that’s not really directly relevant. Regardless, when looking straight ahead, you cannot see anything…

I really like the aesthetic and the design of Dishonored, but the first person perspective drives me nuts. It’s a game - to me at least - about agility, rapid movement, and environmental awareness, which are all actively inhibited by a more-limited-than-natural field of view (the average person’s real-life FoV is…

That’s really cute, how you restate what I already said, only with a bunch of childish insults thrown in to make it look like you’re rebutting me.

Okay, you enjoy that whole “I’ve decided I’m always objectively right and don’t need to actually pay any attention to the words people talking to me are writing” thing you’ve got going on. I’m sure it’s protected you very effectively from ever having to reconsider your preconceived notions or revise your choice of…

Yeah, 1 game from his back catalogue, which came out 17 years ago, doesn’t represent his entire body of work. And Shuck is right - Cage’s work is genuinely polarizing - some people like it and others do not. The fact that you don’t does not make those differing opinions invalid. You’re entitled to your opinion - I’m…

David Cage’s games are a long way from perfect, but they’re nowhere near the infectious human waste that Uwe Boll produces. And Rebecca Black’s song wasn’t good, but it was also the work of a child. It’s a pretty rare 16-year-old that can produce art of genuine quality yet. I know I don’t like people to see most of…

Sadly, its a civil suit, not a criminal trial, so there will be no “trying him” or “convicting him.”

We got a Dyson as a wedding present in 2005 and it still works great (and we have wall-to-wall carpet in 3/4 of the house). We’ve had anywhere from 1-10 cats in the house over that time (but 6 for most of it) and it kept us from dying of fur inhalation the whole time, without having to buy a single replacement bag…

For my part I’m not sure DA2 is my favorite, per se, but it is the one I’ve played the most of the three - and the only one I’ve finished twice. I started a character for every origin in DA:O, but only played 1 all the way through the main game and DLCs. I’ve played a couple of the others through anywhere from 0-2…

If that’s who Elon Musk has working on this project. And if they’ve got the authority to overrule design choices driven by aesthetics over function. It is not presently clear that is the case, as far as I can see, given how dramatic a departure from proven methods these designs are.

My main concern with your design is the lack of radiation shielding. The one big practical benefit to Space X’s design is it’s easier to have shielding that pulls double-duty - protecting from both re-entry stress and solar radiation once outside the protection of a planetary magnetic field. They’re going to be…

You can bet that theyre going to go with whatever the engineers think is safest and most efficient...I know which one I would feel a heck of a lot safer in.

Video games might be the first big content providers.

4k adoption MIGHT be significantly higher. For that to happen, there needs to be enough early adopters to lower the prices on the TVs. And for that to happen, there’s got to be enough content available for any but the most wild-eyed tech enthusiast to justify getting them. And so far, that’s not happening. Possibly…