The point is that every weapon is essentially built off the same archetype. There aren’t 15 distinct assault rifles in Mass Effect. They’re just minor variations on the same three stats.

I’m not oversimplifying though. Within the four weapon system of the first game, the difference separating one weapon from another is one of three stats: damage, shots before overheating, and accuracy rating.

People love to tout how much of an RPG the first game supposedly is over the second and third, but I think they mistake having more “things” for having more options. Most of the gear you get is junk, and the stats that differ between most of them aren’t really interesting options.

It’s possible he had some sort of internal logic as to why his demand had to be met, but given we know the answer to why he bought a site he appeared to not enjoy (because it was cheap and had good page views) and that the change following the exodus killed non-sports discussion pretty much entirely for Deadspin, not…

The Adults in the Room article that capped off the former team’s exodus from Deadspin nailed it. The Deadspin team obviously understood that it was their broad discussion of all manner of topics in addition to sports that made people interested in their writing, but some overpaid executive had to demonstrate he knew…

This question reminds me of one of my favorite parts of gaming, player emergent narratives. I would argue that it’s far more interesting to show someone how interacting with a game becomes its own emergent story particular to the player than in showing them just a pretty scene that happens to be in a video game.

I think some players get into a mentality that characters they don’t like don’t really count, because they didn’t like them to begin with. As you said, they’re still a part of the team. They just expect all the consequences to be limited to the characters they don’t like I guess.

I don’t agree, at least with the Assassin’s Creed games. Character progression in the last three games wasn’t an issue. The microtransactions aren’t really compelling in the slightest. You level fairly frequently already. Speeding that up won’t make the sheer amount of content any better, it might just trivialize any…

Not seeing how nagging about having grandkids during a pandemic would be the better view in that situation.

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…