This is powerfully stupid.

I just downloaded Kingdom: New Lands for the Switch and am enjoying the hell out of it. I’d been out of games for years before the last year or so so I feel like I missed out on the initial wave of more experimental, kind of inscrutable experiences but I think that is definitely a through line that I am discovering.

Ouch! I’m sorry to hear that. I obviously don’t know much about your specific business, but local businesses that treat their employees well should be given as many breaks as possible. I hope you can hang in there.

Not to be disrespectful, but Blackmage has a good point: the costs you’re seeing for impervious surfaces now are really a reflection of what was basically a city subsidy to you before. Urban areas keep a mind bogglingly immense amount of water from making it’s way into the ground, which requires tons of infrastructure…

Maybe a way to alleviate mini map dependency the default could be for it to be turned off, but easily toggled on with a movement speed decrease. You could even add animations of your character looking down at their map or GPS dependent on the setting.

Your 1 is a restatement if mine. Constantly having a mini map is more akin to holding a phone in the corner of your vision. But last night I did see a guy who was walking around holding his phone up and had loud audio navigation turned on, so I guess there’s an obnoxious third option.

Imagine, if you will, that you chose to use the smart phone do you:

Do you treat all products like this? What do you do when a movie that had years of hype, tons of cool looking previews, and promised you all kinds of excitement with bold new special effects ends up being a disappointing mess? Do you feel like the writer, director, editor or producer just straight up lied to you and…

As MidnightWatchman pointed out: this is a corporation making a piece of entertainment. If you feel personally affronted by a product not living up to its marketing perhaps you should join us in the real world where actual bad things happen and commercials aren’t there to inform you about the absolute value is a…

A world in which people who call themselves “gamers” have an inflated sense of importance regarding their chosen, luxurious hobby. Similar to the world in which people send death threats to people who created/critiqued a fun toy they hated/liked. So, I guess that would be the alternate dimension a good portion of the…

I think it’s pretty unlikely that Campo Santo’s faq page is legally binding in any way. Additionally, I think Let’s Play videos are unlikely to fall under the legal definition of “derivative works” since in many cases it is raw unedited content with a commentary track. Many companies also seem to agree that it is…

Why must it be one or the other? There’s no legal protection that allows someone to display other’s work publicly with minimal modification then collect money for it. At the moment developers and publishers simply tolerate LP videos because it makes financial sense. There is also no law stating that a publisher or…

And as the people who gave the permission they have every right to take it away. It seems that in the normalizing of LP videos people have come to understand talking over someone else’s work, often significant hours long chunks of someone else’s work, as actually creating a wholly new work that should entire them to…

This trend also impacts fools like myself that have attempted to bolster our fortunes by trimming in the fall. If the price drops much further it won’t be worth spending 12 hours in an uncomfortable lawn chair listening to idiots philosophizing about something they heard on the Joe Rogan Experience. Oh God, an I…

I might be tempted to double dip as well even though I’ve played the first four acts (multiple times for acts I-III). My pattern has been to replay all previously released acts before playing the new one just to get back into this weird, increasingly complicated world they’ve created. It’s the kind of experience…

Right on. It’s the sheer stupidity of how things happened that irks me more than what happened. There has to have been a better way to move pieces into place than what they came up with.

Do streamers actually deserve any respect? These are people that are broadcasting themselves playing a videogame with silly schticks and often taking themselves seriously. What they do is attention seeking and ultimately kind of stupid so if they can’t roll with the punches and make something of a funny or obnoxious…

I am a white guy, but I have lived in Alaska for most of my life and have slightly more than a passing familiarity with Tlingit art and culture, and your response surprised me. The fact that she has two skins one called “Thunderbird” (Tlingit and PNW related) and one called “Raindancer” (usually associated with native…

It sounds like there are a lot of people who have been playing game consoles for the last 15 years that have settled into routines of what they want out of the experience and are uninterested in a lot of unique things the Switch has to offer. “The controllers are too small” “It’s not a real portable with just 3 hours…

Look, I’ve been gaming exclusively on mid to low range laptops for the last 10+ years so I may be a bit out of date, but: 3 hours for a beautiful, huge game like Zelda on a portable? You’re complaining about this? I can’t really imagine too many scenarios where I am playing a game for 3+ hours without any ability to…