Young people have always drank terrible stuff with the expressed purpose of getting as drunk as possible, as quickly as possible, as cheaply as possible, so the Borg thing is not terribly shocking. Back in my younger days, back before color had been invented, the cool kids took straight shots of Everclear and later…

Maybe it has something to do with the ESRB. This might bump it up from “Mature” to “Adults Only”, which could harm sales.

Maybe it just depends on the game? Most times I never think about it either but with Horizon Forbidden West specifically, battery life seemed especially rough which I assume is because every possible feature was set to max by default. Resistive triggers every time you shoot and arrow, lots of noise, lots of rumbles. 

I think using they pronouns might have more to do with making the voice over stuff easier in this case. I picked a male with a male voice and default hair(character creators are not exciting to me so I don’t usually change much) and Professor Fig still used they to refer to me early on. I’ve only played around two…

Crypto is ostensibly supposed to be used as money. Money that experiences frequent large swings in value is not actually useful as money. So instead it’s treated like an unregulated investment vehicle, which is even worse because it offers no protections to people that buy into it and lose everything to one of the…

I’d definitely agree that it would need to be a specific choice on the part of the person choosing to be the surrogate, it can’t just be that organ donor status=undead surrogate approval. It’s just too morally dubious to make it that easy. For instance, what’s to keep them from keeping someone medically alive to have…

Maybe I just didn’t play it long enough, but I felt like with Thronebreaker there was really only the one way to beat each encounter and it was more about figuring out the puzzle solution than any kind of tactical on the fly gameplay. By that I mean it seemed like if I played the same encounter twice they would be…

People are gonna need to elevate their opening line beyond “say pineapple” to detect bots.

Also, since it gave you pushback on a scary letter I thought I’d get around that by asking it to “write a break up letter in the style of Stephen King” and it certainly took a hell of a twist in the second half:

Wow, even AI feels the need to start letters with some version of the always clunky and weird “I hope this email finds you well”. It’s so much closer to human than we knew!

Paper money actually holds up pretty well in the washer and dryer, usually coming out of the dyer cleaner and crisper than when it went in. That said, I think the US should be switching to Canadian style plastic as well since it lasts longer in general and is much harder to counterfeit. They’d also do themselves a…

This was always funny on Smallville back in the day. It was filmed near Vancouver so the famously flat Kansas always had mountains in the background.

It’s also a lot harder to sell a sidekick that’s like 13 years old in a live action movie than it is in comics. Unless they age him up a fair bit it’s just gonna be too silly.

100%. Those people won’t let a little thing like facts cloud their nonsense narrative.

Dead Space’s main man is humanized even further in the remake by his ability to talk, rather than merely accept his crewmates’ orders without so much as a silent nod of acknowledgment like he did in the original.

This is definitely the explanation I remember from back in the earlier Gran Turismo days. They had the ability to model some amount of damage even then couldn’t get the permission. In the first two games they weren’t even allowed to show the cars flipping over, so even if you hit a turn on a hill at the wrong…

Technically they aren’t random thugs since you first scan them and steal their identity, so they are 100% known thugs...that you then murder.

I know this article is about out of context pull quotes but I always love this obfuscated 2 star review from The Guardian getting put in the middle of the poster with the implication that it’s a 4 star review like everything above and below it.

They’re doing a bit more of a comparison for the reviews over at Kotaku. Or at least they did for the pilot, haven’t seen an episode 2 review up yet but it’s early yet.

I just looked up their service center locations and it’s wild to me that they put one in Westport, Connecticut and Naples, Florida but not one in or even within 250 miles of Chicago.