Nintendo literally made an upgraded system where they added the name “New” to the product. It was certainly confusing but the New 3DS didn’t have trouble selling.

having to use an Android phone.

There was no excuse to be this under prepared.

There’s a difference between hardware compatibility with previous media and how previous media is treated as a digital commodity, I think. The concern isn’t just whether the hardware supports games from a previous console, but what your access to those games is like. Especially as games go out of print physically.

Wikipedia says he was born in Santa Cruz and got his degree from UCDavis, which is pretty Californian to me.

They sure did in the promo videos leading up the release though. They talked up the different styles roughly designed around the three different lifepaths (which were similarly talked about as if they were much more significant than they turned out to be.)

Well now you know what V stands for

Real machines have long since been out of production, so depending on the community they may allow things like clones or even emulation to be counted alongside real hardware.

I never suggested it was a catch all solution. We can still deter the use of firearms by tying drawing their weapons to recording. They’re going to be shitheads in general either way, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do anything about it if it doesn’t fix everything.

I wouldn’t put it past cops to try and find ways around these things, but making it more difficult for them to do so is a good step in any case.

Sure, but the point would be to make cops have to think twice about just drawing their weapon knowing that the device is definitely recording. We know the devices are always recording in some capacity but it’s not currently practical to keep every moment they’re on. Making it that much harder to restrict context to…

Revenge is a frequent transactional behavior from Trump. And at this point maybe he realizes he’s long since been abandoned by McConnell and the holding up of aid likely worked against his reelection chances in the first place.

The look back feature suggests they are in some capacity. But I agree, why give them the option?

I’m personally glad that pixel art has never gotten old. You can still make fresh pixel art games. The playstation aesthetic certainly manages a certain nostalgic appeal but I don’t think it’s as broad as pixel art.

Switch games come in a variety of card sizes. There’s a 64gb card that was supposed to roll out this year but I don’t know that anything takes advantage of it.

It’s still true. Finished games aren’t directly analogous to buying blank media wholesale. Blurays get pressed for mass production, not burnt, after all.

Switch cartridges are considerably more costly than Bluray discs, and they’ve been a factor on the size of games as a consequence, since larger capacity cartridges cost more, while discs are more or less a flat cost.

ME3 has some great moments. I think it has some great writing in it. The MacGuffin and the whole star child stuff sucks, but there’s a lot of great character moments in between.

IIRC, they were considering the elf woman from Awakening for the same narrative role that Anders ended up taking in DA2. I think that would have probably worked better. As is the shift in personality between Awakening Anders and DA2 Anders makes him feel like a completely different character.

one of the quests I had for the Plaguefall dungeon needed more than one run to complete.