Synder’s film sensibilities basically wrecked any potential of Cavill’s casting, in my opinion. He’ll have Superman dashing Zod against presumably populated buildings and not understand his destruction porn is at odds with the character. And then have Zod easily put Superman into a situation where he feels compelled…

No, it was part of a Humble Monthly bundle I bought and a give away on Epic and GOG. I didn’t buy it three times.

I’ve got Control on 3 PC platforms, because it was given away on two and was part of a Humble Bundle monthly for the third. I still end up using Steam, because it’s got by far the best support for the PS5 controller I use for my PC games.

It’s a technically demanding game with a solid aesthetic. It’s very performance-intensive, and practically everything they did to meet performance goals on the older consoles has revolved around scaling back the detail of the city in order to make it work.

I think you could argue that they were trying to double dip the two console generations. That releasing when they did was meant primarily to target the PS4/XB1 at its peak, perhaps its last great big holiday sales period, before the decline of the old gen and focus on the less entrenched (and largely supply-limited)…

Well, absolutely no surprise that he’s a cryptobro, I suppose.

Yeah, it’d have been a hard sell to only target the PS4Pro/XBX, too. But really skipping the generation entirely would have probably have been for the best. Even if the game wasn’t buggy, there were clearly issues still there. It’s a much smaller game in scope than their promo videos described.

It should have been canceled for the older consoles and given probably another year in development. It’d have been expensive but the game would have been much better for it.

They had a game that really never should have been released on the older consoles, and they prioritized a holiday window, so by releasing early they got the benefit of targeting the larger older console base and during a major sales period. All it took was releasing far earlier than anyone working on the game expected…

Where’s the game here? What are players being challenged to do? What’s the risk/skill/reward feedback loop?

Buying a $200,000 car isn’t really in the same league as having a dick measuring contest with other billionaires via competing space programs.

I’m referring specifically to progressive tax policy proposals by the likes of AoC and Liz Warren.

Christ, this attitude is dumb.

You’ve got this strange idea that socialism is about dictating the maximum standard of living when it’s far more about ensuring the minimum standard of living be raised.

Do they not want a progressive tax rate that taxes every dollar past some amount they deem “reasonable” higher than the first “X”?

The issue with blockchain tokens to digital goods is that the digital goods don’t exist on the block chain and the tokens only have “value” if someone else agrees to recognize your token as conferring ownership of said digital good.

They got burned because they’d never authenticated Pokemon anything before in the past, never mind a claimed first edition box from the original set.

Self-moderating on what content not to do feels like meta-gaming, too. What’s wrong with making the whole experience solid and entertaining versus inserting several hundred hours of busy work to pad the run time?

It’s like sausage making. I don’t necessarily want to be looking at how things are made. It’s not nearly as much fun to have to meta game and decide which content not to do because the developers decided to fill the game with time padding content.

Just flip the order and you can do both with the whole lot, surely.