There is a way to run a “Alternative History” campaign without directly belabouring the moral evils of Nazi Germany as it was, but it requires the player base to have the politcal maturity to understand why it’s there; and sadly, as this very user name has shown over the years, such wisdom is not in common supply. (It…

Interesting review, but I’d query one particular part;

Regarding what you say here;

Because you went into more technical detail, I thought I’d go get the actual figures for my own ISP; Virgin Media apparently reset the lease every 7 days. And you can force the modem to try and reassign it, but it’s not guaranteed it will work. I switch mine off overnight, just to be a green consumer, which might…

Unfortunately, having had my own obsessive stalker who organised with both a Real Money Trader, and even a gaming company itself to make 3 years of rape and death threats because of criticism of said game, the sad truth is neither the law, nor technology is in any position to do much about this... for now.

I used to post quite extensively on Relationship Advice (under a different account, due to one of those “worst men on the planet” who stalked and harassed me for three years through Reddit, and sent rape and death threats to an ex girlfriend, all because I criticised a computer game (Shroud of the Avatar) he was real…

And those whose lives are seriously damaged or lonely, with plenty of time to devote to Reddit; they tend to start out appearing as the former, someone who loves the topic, but eventually morph into the former.

Yes, thank you for reminding me of that; extremely unprofessional at best, and if there was a wider culture of harassment, damaging to others as well as stupid.

I congratulate Nathan for a review that actually mentions the issues with VR, instead of just gushing all over the game like the Combine apparently did to Alyx in game... Even those with VR headsets myself are going to have to struggle with both the control issues, space and health: nausea is the most common, and one…

I read all of the article. It was well written, deeply researched... and yet I still don’t know what to think about it as a whole now I’ve finished it, and sat thinking about it for a little while.

Adding to the “Arbitration is bull-poop” comments; it doesn’t really cover you as a customer either. When Portalarium (creators of Shroud of the Avatar) actively supported someone stalking and harassing me, I and a lawyer took them to the American Arbitration Association, and they didn’t even turn up. Despite then…

Over in the UK, just been announced we need to cancel all non-essential social events etc too; what to play when stuck at home then? How about “Two Point Hospital”; don’t feel powerless in the face of diseases, get out there and cure them yourself! And also learn the benefits of universal, free health care on certain…

These handhelds were popular for three reasons, back in the day; the first, and I don’t think many today understand, was just how fast absolute shifts in technology were coming. Within the space of a few years at primary school (5-11) in the 80s, I can recall we’d gone from amazement to the LCD watch even existing,…

There’s always been a certain kind of gamer that wants to go from the very bottom to the absolute top, rather than just winning right from the start and winning every match since; I know I was using Mansfield Town, in the absolute lowest possible Sensible World Of Soccer (SWOS) back in the 1990s on the Commodore…

The best bit, the ABSOLUTE BEST bit, is all the way through the first few paragraphs of ranting, I was thinking;

No idea what the PS forums were like, as I’ve never owned a Sony device (or xbox) so I’ve never had to use them; but I’d be interested to know what the internal logic for closing them is... and whether there are wider consequences, because when I worked on Ultima Online, the vast majority of the historical information…

“(it isn’t; in fact, people in the BDSM scene tend to have better emotional and mental health than folks outside it)“

“I can barely recognize the person I was in 2010. Man, she thought she’d seen some shit. But she had no idea.”

uBlock Origin Plus in Firefox means I never see the adverts at all. I didn’t realise so many people were suffering with them.

No “Ys” games in either of your lists? Boo. BOOOOOO I SAY.