I mean, this is a fairly new market/industry for the FTC to wrap their heads around. The fact that Microsoft is involved makes them 100x more suspicious given past antitrust suits, and gaming has only recently (last 15 years or so) reached the point where a first-party console manufacturer acquiring a third party…

Are my fellow elder millennials telling their kids to do this?

I know we scoff at AC games getting bigger, but it would be really cool to see them add very slim strips of the east coasts of Florida and Georgia, up to Savannah, to the game. There was a good amount of pirate activity here, and Blackbeard Island, where his treasure is said to be buried (never found) is about 20 min…

Iced tea hack:

Yeah, he’s in the game and you get his outfit. My current character looks like Naked Snake and is accompanied by "Lara Croft," "Sam Fisher," and "Solid Snake," although I might replace him with as close of a facsimile of "Doom Guy" as I can conjure up. 

My favorite aspect of RPGs following the template established by Japanese developers is the streamlined nature of leveling up and gear. Outside of games like Souls-likes where optimizing a build is essential and fairly straightforward, I really don’t like having to make incremental decisions when levelling up. Thank…

Until there is an ARM chip that can handle x86/64 applications completely, I don’t see Nvidia supporting any console other than future Switches. Intel is the only other company besides AMD that produces x86/64 based APUs, but AMD has dominated the iGPU/APU market for 15 years or so.

I’m pretty sure that plenty of console games this gen will or are going to be using FSR 2 for upscaling. I believe DF mentioned that, based on the ghosting and artifacts present, it seems ToTK was relying on FSR 2 to maintain 720p on the Switch.

“Super Cruise” means breaking the sound barrier and maintaining supersonic speed without afterburners/reheat. Concorde is the only jetliner to achieve that as of yet. As far as I know, the F-22 is only plane in service at the moment capable of super cruise. 

You described my experience with the first game perfectly. I think I made it past the 3 hour mark, but I hit a boss wall and haven’t gone back. Might need to try it on the Deck. Those back paddles would certainly come in handy. 

I wish the adoption situation was better, but it’s horrible, at least in the South. Every dog at the shelter or Humane Society is a pit mix. While these dogs need and deserve love, a pit mix is not the best prospect for the majority of owners, especially families with children. They can be great pets, sure, but an…

Same for me. I didn't use online sources until my senior year, and they all had to come from Galileo, the University System Of Georgia's free database of journals for HS and college students. In college, Ebsco Academic Search Complete was all I needed for 80% of my research. 

I’ve been waiting on this one. Probably not much I don’t know, but it’ll be nice to see it all well-arranged in documentary form.

The market will correct? I agree with these folks leaving crappy service jobs, but the service-industry market will never “self-correct.” It must “be corrected” through regulation, the abolishment of “right to work” statutes, and, ultimately, the expansion of SEIU (Service Employees International Union).

That reminds me of the time I filled my cargo shorts up with like 25 floppy disks and proceeded to download the majority of the NES library, despite a ban on inserting personal media in the PCs, as I didn’t yet have the internet at home or my mom had cancelled it during one of her fits. Can’t remember, but I felt like…

The tool GPTZero is currently the best option for determining AI composition. I hope these folks feeding ChatGPT its own work don't lead it to self-realization. 

I pay $10/month for a plagiarism-checker, since Google Classroom only lets me scan 5 assignments per class over the course of a semester. These tools are really just capable of finding matching content online, and they are very good at it. However, I'm pretty sure that they don't yet have an AI-busting functionality.…

I teach HS English, and I’m starting to get pretty good at picking up on the syntax, word choice, and content that ChatGPT produces when asked about literature. It’s all heavy handed literary-term gobbledygook that is outside the realm of most of my student’s abilities, yet it is also so on-the-nose that I would have…

Back during the print magazine days, I always thought a 6.5+/10 was likely to be a pretty good game if it was something I’m normally into. Very few got 8s-10s, mostly just Nintendo IPs, JRPGs (many of which got outsized goodwill in the JRPG craze after FFVII), and the early blockbuster 3D titles (MGS, RE:2, Silent…

I suspect the Switch 2 will actually be announced 48 hours after the launch of TotK. That will give the game enough time to push Switches worldwide past their breaking point. Then Nintendo announces the Switch 2, forcing everyone who bought ToTK to buy a new console if they want to actually play the game.