Considering all the dumb shit rich people pay way too much for on Bring a Trailer, dropping 200k on this seems reasonable by comparison. At least this is a one-of-a-kind art piece. 

I feel like these Steam Deck competitors are missing the point of the Steam Deck. We’ve had portable devices that can run PC games well before the Steam Deck. But the reason the Steam Deck made it work is because:

I’m not familiar enough with the Japanese console market to gauge if any anti-competitive shit is going on there, but... you don’t see anything suspicious about a 98% market share in terms of PS5 vs Xbox Series X in one specific nation? Something not shared by one of Japan’s closest neighbors?…

For the record, I think that she’s being an embarrassment by being an attack-dog for her corporate backers, and a particularly unsubtle one, but I do think this bit is worth addressing:

Complaints on meta would have more merit if the game had difficult content clear. As it stands now, the difficulty curve in the game is still a plateau. It’s hard until it’s not, and then becomes trivial with time. The spiral abyss is currently the hardest it’s ever been, but it’s still business as usual for whales…

In the US, there’s generally not a duty to help/rescue. That’s different from common law systems in other countries - in Germany, for example, “unterlassene Hilfeleistung” (meaning a failure to render aid) is considered a tort, subject to reasonable limits. So in VW’s own home country, this might have been a legal…

As someone who commutes by public transit daily, I sympathize. If I ever win big on the lottery, I am buying everybody in my city soap and deoderant. I have been enduring the horrid stink of humanity on buses and trains for 25+ years and even after a quarter century of enduring it, I still can’t get used to it.

It’s weird because growing up in Asia in the 90s, the term “JRPG” was a praise and has always meant a stamp of quality.

First, I think it is a valid thing to note the difference between various styles of gameplay. There’s major structural, stylistic, mechanical and other differences between, say, Final Fantasy 7 and Baldur’s Gate, to the point where only calling them both “RPGs” feels overly broad.

I find it a smidge ironic to see Sisi talk about nuanced discussion getting flattened.

Good. Because here is the thing: I would buy this Day 1 if they committed to supporting PC. I have a PS5, I like it, but I don’t foresee using the VR headset on that enough to justify the cost, but an foveated rendering, eye-tracking lightweight, high-res headset that I could also plug in for PCVR? Easy purchase at…

Being disliked because of your personality, views and actions isn’t cancel culture, it’s just people not liking you or your work. It’s a part of the package deal of making something to entertain people. There’s is a chance you suck so much that people don’t like your work anymore. That’s just consequences.

I for one am flabbergasted. I refuse to believe someone as fine and upstanding as Logan Paul would do this.

“Paul, who’s been on something of a redemption arc these last few years following the “suicide forest” fiasco in December 2017"

What possible sequence of events could have occurred for you to put forward the suggestion that Paul has been on ‘a redemption arc’ beyond the bare minimum of not going back to a suicide…

There was a good show buried in there. The actors are not bad at all, the dwarf girl being the highlight for me.

“Whereas you could as a citizen in america (canada included) carry a weapon and decide that a stranger acting nervous near you is likely armed and wants your teeth”.

His prior record matters, greatly, speaking to his character. If this goes to trial, many character witnesses will be called to prove, along with his presumed lack of criminal history, that he’s just an inexperienced driver (relative to his age) who made a mistake.

The American side is being anal about this. There are Pony Cars and Muscle cars. The are different in DNA.

I hate scofflaws just as much as anyone, but this was petty bullshit.