“describing trans rights as “a very online conversation” is so wildly off base”

She said, spurring a very online conversation.

no it isn’t. if you hate her that much you just shouldn’t consume her content. plain and simple. advocating stealing (not just from her but everybody involved) makes you the same or even worse (depends on pov).

“stoked paranoia around youth hormone treatment”

Second to not needing a lot of space. I played half of Alyx seated in a chair, using the same amount of space I use for any of my gaming.

I just hope the majority of people who only experience Alyx this way remember that they aren’t playing Alyx the way it was designed to play. Meaning if they end up not enjoying it, I’d hope there aren’t a bunch of people going around complaining about Alyx not meeting the hype when played in NoVR.

Plus all the ‘OMG PEOPLE WON”T SPEND HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS ON JUST A VR HEADSET FOR NOTHING BUT GAMING!” when they already spend hundreds (thousands, now) of dollars on a video card for nothing but gaming. You can get a used Quest 1 for $100 on eBay and run it wirelessly to your PC or just plug it in with a USB cable…

I get that, and I hope you get some enjoyment out of it using the mod. I just want to warn anyone that you’ll obviously have a seriously watered down version of the original game. Like I imagine even the combat scenarios will feel “off” since they were designed with VR in mind.

If “what makes it great” is the gimmick format, then it’s not a great game

“The Best VR Game Doesn’t Require VR Anymore”

This is like if Nintendo released a non-Wii Remote version of Wii Sports. Sure, it’d be functional and maybe fun (kinda?) but it removes all of what makes it great and basically defeats the whole purpose of it existing in the first place.

You really don’t need a super expensive PC to run VR, especially not for a Oc Quest 2. I was able to run this on a RTX 2060 which is even cheaper now than when I brought one. The only time it gets into expensive territory is if you go with high end VR stuff like Valves Index and start adding in bay stations etc.

To your last sentence, that would seem to be exactly it. They have nothing better to do, and plenty of money to waste pursuing completely frivolous claims of trademark infringement well outside the scope of energy drinks.

What Monster’s legal team needs is to have a judge declare them to be a vexatious litigant (each and severally -- the company and the individual lawyers) and revoke the trademark.

I’m not going to read your thinly veiled slash fic. Sorry. You're free to write it, but let's not bury the lede here 

“What if pokemon was dark and edgy” is literally the oldest and most obvious joke to make about pokemon, there are dozens upon dozens of fan made games and comics and skits about this already. You might as well make a joke about mario taking psychoactive mushrooms or link smashing pots

Naaaah this aint it. This pairing is creepy as hell. Big ick feels.

so no word at all on what the prank they were pulling was when the dude got shot? seems like an unusual detail to leave out.

Yeah, if the “prank” was pulling a fake gun on someone or “joking” about bodily harm that might paint this in a different light.

Any reason none of these posts actually say what the nature of the “prank” was?

Any attempt at comment from the alleged shooter or their legal representation?  Forgive me if I don’t take Cook’s “simple practical joke” statement at face value.

The four letter shortening of Pakistani is a racial slur? I worked with a guy from Pakistan and he used it pretty often when talking about his friends. And since when is Pakistan South Asian? I Guess I never thought if it being part of Asia, even though it like India is, I always considered it middle eastern.