The way I see it, this isn’t meant to be a discount exactly, considering things from the corporate side. A discount makes customers who were on the fence about buying something more likely to buy that thing. This system takes a different approach: rather than targeting the specific price point as the barrier to…

Programmer here: Optical disk drives are perhaps the slowest form of memory used in modern computers, and not just by a marginal amount, it’s in a whole different magnitude. While processing speed increases year to year, data transfer speed doesn’t really increase at all. As we keep making file sizes larger, if we…

I’m not sure anyone’s really upset about them. I think it’s just not the image that Epic wants for Fortnite. Fortnite’s success comes from it’s accessibility: anyone can play on any platform with anyone else, they don’t even have to pay for the game. If this causes some people to feel like this is just another…

Ok, in what way is this too similar to the previous games? It’s got a dozen more characters, each character’s move set has been tweaked if not outright changed, the games’ mechanics have been altered, defensive techniques have been added, items have been added... the only things I can think of that are remotely…

As frustrating as Blighttown can be, I find its design pretty incredible. Each of the three times I’ve played through Dark Souls, I’ve found a new means of navigating it and its denizens. I can’t help but have a begrudging respect for it.

It all depends on what kind of gamer you are. The game is very much a social game, something to play with friends. It’s not about progression, or competition, and only a bit about exploration - it’s more a platform by which you and some friends can goof around and play out little adventures, and it is excellent in…

I’ll point out that Melee was released just 2.5 years after the original. 3.5 years between games doesn’t seem so crazy.

Such blatant corruption in our judicial institutions. Just how much money has this judge accepted from Big Nintendo?

You and Patricia are talking about two different things. You’re talking about microtransactions, she’s talking about lootboxes. Microtransactions can be, and often are, tied to lootboxes, but lootboxes themselves are simply a system within a game by which virtual items are gained.

Another problem that has not yet been solved is the 5038f-MW1 error that many people still get on the Xbox One. Certain people are incapable of playing with most anyone else, receiving this error when they try to join a session, regardless of NAT type or other network settings. I still haven’t been able to play this…

Dang, “Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement”? That’s pretty bad. I want to believe he meant “Anglo-American history” of law enforcement, trying to reference American history from colonization onward... It seems like any time the word “heritage” comes up, it can never good news. Stick to the script, Sessions.

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It’s worth noting that this was written in the middle of the primaries, before the absolute height of the campaign. If I recall correctly, after the primaries he started pulling donations more, and…

What’s homophobic is that the intent behind the words was to be insulting. Lengyel tried to use Wilmot’s homosexuality to belittle him. That’s what is homophobic here. Whether or not the statement was factually true is beside the point.

I never understood how Baba Yaga got around in a mortar and pestle until now.

Anything they do would be “an obvious tactic,” because folk frame their every action as coming from Lex Luthor himself. Yes, EA wants your money. No successful game company would give up a potential source of revenue without purpose.

Because they’re not trying to “fuck people over”, they’re trying to get money in exchange for their product. Honestly, this joke is funny because of people’s overreaction to any game that uses micro-transactions.

Dude, name one point in the story where something happened to her that was her own fault.

That’s fair. I guess I was too hung up on the disjointed horror tropes, trying to piece together what was supposed to be going on in the story. I thought the “only-girl-at-LAN-party” theme was supposed to be the setting, rather than the whole point.

Objectivists never seem to understand the role spite plays in the world.

This is what makes a good Metroidvania: the upgrades you receive are not mere power upgrades or keys, they’re tools. I’ve been noticing this all the more playing Samus Returns. The wave beam is a damage upgrade for your beam, but that’s more or less negated whenever the enemies you’re up against have greater health…