Another excellent review, great job, Heather. I love your writing and encourage you to consider writing longer pieces of non-fiction (i.e., a novel, not blog). I think you’ve got the chops to avoid the tropes. ;)

I drive by his house all the time and calling a wooden fence panel on wheels a “security gate” may be factually accurate, but it’s a bit of a stretch. Plus, it’s pretty obvious when he’s home or not by the number of cars in the driveway.

Game developers and publishers take note, THIS is how you make game promo videos! Real game footage, not highly rendered fantasies of what the game should resemble. We are okay with seeing random janky movement in exchange for honesty and transparency.

Per the Massdrop discussion on this item:

Per the Massdrop discussion on this item:

This is one of those items that don’t fit the traditional materials + labor = cost/value equation. I have no doubt that this item has a very high-profit margin, but from experience, this simple piece of folding metal with rubber stickers on the ends is absolutely worth $15 to me.

This is one of those items that don’t fit the traditional materials + labor = cost/value equation. I have no doubt…

Didn’t last long, shows $19.73 now.

Didn’t last long, shows $19.73 now.

Same system, same price, BUT with 16GB of RAM instead of 8, a 1TB HD with 256GB SSD, and a FREE copy of Black Ops 4!

Same system, same price, BUT with 16GB of RAM instead of 8, a 1TB HD with 256GB SSD, and a FREE copy of Black Ops 4!

Absolutely. If cost is based on the investment of the developer, where payroll expenses and overhead is heavily invested in the final product, yes, absolutely. How do you justify a game costing $60 when a small team (say less than 25 people) developed it when a AAA game that has a team of 500 working for years charges…

Found this trailer for the spin-off of this title which is geared for US audiences which releases in January:

Oh, I value this game, but I would put it closer to $24.99 at release and $9.99 on sale.

At what point are we collectively going to agree that Bethesda is destroying themselves on purpose, intentionally trolling, us, its player base? How is that time not, now?

Why does this game cost as much as a AAA title?

but as implemented usually doesn’t feel worth the trouble.

Jason made a big deal about how this isn’t the same old game engine, but really it is, but with better distant art and envinronmental/weather effects. Everything else is identical to Fallout 4.

I’m with you on this, Luke. I appreciate that the developers tried something different, but it just didn’t work. I struggled with the level gates as well, but even more so with tracking quest lines. Which was a main story quest? Which was a side quest? Which was a fun “filler” quest? Also, the quest menu UI was a…

In reply to myself from over a year ago, “STFU Zatx, Heather rocks now!” ;)

This isn’t necessarily the case. Most of the time, warehouse deals are on items that have had their packaging damaged in some way while traversing Amazon’s logistic’s inventory system, i.e., package handlers and automated high-speed conveyors. Because of this, you can almost always find items that are…

This isn’t necessarily the case. Most of the time, warehouse deals are on items that have had their packaging…

No Dolby Vision?

No Dolby Vision?

This article piqued my interest because my PS4 Pro is not loud at all and I’ve only heard the fans rev up a hand full of times since I bought it a few months ago...

This has been my experience as well. Most of mine are related to quests. By the way, the health bar only appears when in combat or near a target.