Nah, Battlefront II is currently weighing in at 115.8gb on PS4, and while I don’t have BF5 installed at the moment, I would be shocked if it hadn’t sailed well past 100gb as well; that pair obviously comes from just a single developer. It’s definitely an industry trend.

LOL, I have an Evangelical mother and sister while being somewhere in the proximity of Trotsky as regards religion, personally. I’ve also worked extensively with Catholics. There is no comparison; Catholics possess a philosophical framework in the form of a modified Aristotelianism (via Aquinas, of course) which…

The coastal migration theory was always the only sensible one to me, the ice-free corridor hypothesis just seems absurd on its face. How long does soil formation take in freshly post-glacial bedrock with next to no biological activity? An inch a millennium or something? It’s thousands of miles, what the fuck were they…

Compared to what a lot of them are using, it seems like roughly the same degree of an upgrade as going from horseback to early ICE...

Maybe they’ll make it a launch title for the PSVR2 or whatever they’re going to call it, since that’s supposedly coming next year as well...

Well, as Hitchens once noted, of all forms of human solidarity, the generational is the lowest.

Gen X, grew up on AFDC in the 80s and my mom was extremely overextended as a single parent (three kids total, youngest w/ special needs), so I was basically left to run free from pretty much the moment I started school. I remember constantly doing stuff like just up and leaving school unannounced when I was in…

You're forgetting about the US Constitution.

JBL’s smart speakers have some quality control issues, to put it mildly; anyone in the market for one should probably first look at some longer-term reviews given the asking price, and they should definitely go ahead and pick up a soldering iron at the same time if they don’t have one already (and maybe a multimeter),…

Should work fine, the Mongols managed to stay warm enough burning desiccated shit to build the greatest empire the world has seen.

No, you were right, Arabia hasn’t been some great prize in the game of empires traditionally; in fact the Achaemenids never bothered with Arabia and apart from controlling a small section of the coast opposite the Strait of Hormuz, in what is now the UAE and Oman, skipped right over it in progressing to Egypt. Alexande…

a little bit of ground clearance for exploring roads throughout the west, but no need for 4WD

Other developers must think they’re just showing off at this point. CDPR is probably collectively facepalming every time they see NMS mentioned in print, just thinking about the absurdly high bar Hello Games set for salvage jobs and the magnitude of the hole they’ve dug for themselves.

Do you live in an alternative universe where Ronnie Raygun never existed? I’ve lived in the United States for over four decades and honestly cannot think of a single conservative who gives a shit about Lincoln (indeed, the reaction of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s granddaughter as described by Shelby Foote concerning ol’…

Now they’re worried about incest?

That’s so weird, I only just saw this list and was reflexively going to jokingly type that I rejected any “comfort movie” list that didn’t include a single flick mostly about food, and Big Night, probably the best one, is definitely the one that was central in my mind.

This actually sounds like the worst to me. I live in a far northern city (US, but further north than a majority of the population of Canada) which is probably the hilliest in the Midwest (the real, actual Midwest, not the pretend one existing only in the imagination of New Yorkers which begins in Buffalo and goes west…

See, I agree, I would never make that comparison. Hitler voters were abhorrent people, some of the worst ever, but at least they can say they were seduced by a devil who was very probably one of the most electrifying public speakers in the history of humankind, and a shrewd political operator who surrounded himself…

This is actually exactly wrong: by the way most armed robbery statutes are written, it makes no difference whatsoever whether the knife was real or not, it ONLY matters whether the victim subjectively believed it was. In point of fact, there are legions of guys in prisons across the country on armed robbery convictions…

Too bad so sad for Wilks, no charge for Starnes Jr., armed robbery and whatever Tennessee’s equivalent of felony murder is for the unnamed friend.