Those are the companies that have contributed to the fast churn of creatives getting overworked and leaving the industry, leaving their projects to be driven entirely by excess man-hours and lack of innovation.

People need a reality check on their reality checks. Biden has been living with a stutter since he was young - it has nothing to do with age or senility. Those high-pressure, fast-paced debates just aren’t a good platform to measure people up unless they’re a showman. I feel confident in my own opinions, but I still freeze up in fast-paced debates where I can’t look things up.

I’d go one further: The movement can come across as whiney and impossible to please when it echoes the message in a super-blanket way in places it doesn’t make sense, like this one.

It’s like protesting government actions with “All government should be abolished so we can ALL BE FREE”.

These days most apps vaguely related to gaming have a DVR function, so that might not be a pressing thing to keep it for. Xbox game bar and soon Steam get that function.

Hopefully the rise of this feature doesn’t mean people accidentally have 8 DVRs running on their gameplay through various gaming apps (not to mention Windows’ Xbox Game Bar does this too)

In the video game “Arcade Paradise”, your grubby father has you run a laundromat that you slowly convert to an arcade. It’s a pretty fun idea. And, you get to play on the machines!

I’m really not sure how the isekai genre comes up if we’re to look for good writing. Every isekai protagonist seems like the definition of a Mary Sue, or whatever the male term is.

“I bypassed the compressor!”

Still sucks that some audience minds associate character to actor a bit too much. Rei’s actor didn’t do anything wrong, and she deserves future chances.

i dont like food

My god, we just witnessed the King of the Hill “Are y’all with the cult?” meme in action.

Which, in a way, makes it weird that I’ve felt okay with FFXIV. It’s a very different form of satisfaction to its gameplay.

Welcome to getting old.

This might actually be a very good idea.

My first thought was to abuse something that rhymes with “Mild Topography”. But that would likely lead to legal repercussions for both you and Microsoft. A better solution would be to store hundreds of medical records in your Documents folder. You have a right to store your own medical information. If Microsoft is uploading those to their servers without your consent, and without appropriate HIPAA measures, that smells like an extremely silver-wrapped lawsuit.

Ironically, I was already using OneDrive but that very push is likely to be the thing that gets me to stop using Windows in the next few years.

I literally cannot see the “gap” in appearance between PS4’s best-looking games and what are considered the top games in the PC market. All the PS5 has done for me is allow for extras like letting them run at 60fps.

When given comparison videos like Batman: Arkham City (PS3, 2011) to Gotham Knights (PS4/PS5, 2022), the level of detail seems to have shifted in bad ways; suggesting most of the new power pushed into these consoles has gone to supporting developer inefficiency. We already know the best of the PS5 can produce some extremely detailed environments, and I really cannot imagine many gamers nitpicking the seams out of them - especially these days where people feel satisfied by digetic environments like Minecraft or Fortnite. So, it feels more like a PS5 Pro or PS6 would go towards making players pay more towards stronger hardware just to account for lack of developer optimization. It does not feel hard to imagine future releases coming out at 25fps, and if players complain about it, only getting the response “Buy a PS5 Pro if it bothers you.”

That’s my explanation for the downvotes. It’s a bit of a visceral reaction to a presumptive sentence, like “Why haven’t you stopped hitting your wife?” It’d be more neutral to ask “Do we need a PS5 Pro?” and my answer would be an immediate No.

Time to make a video complaining that no one has ever granted me the ability to turn water into vodka.

Retail stores are likely studying the effect that shoplifting has on other customers though. When it’s brazen, it can make people fearful for their own safety, and even less likely to shop at the same place.

What I want out of romance in games is to have it take you by surprise, which often means it’s not a “romance option”. Some of the best character scenes I’ve seen wrapped some other major plot point into the fact that one person cares a bit too deeply about another, and processes it all very suddenly.

So I’m fine with this removal. All those romance choices in RPGs like Fallout and Skyrim felt ultra shallow to me. Even BG3 just seems like raw wish fulfillment from a horny cast.

Some things to say back to this:

Most people now have the console they prefer, and it’s lasting them. They don’t necessarily need new consoles. This is true EVEN if that console is a PS4, Xbox One, or Switch. They don’t get everything, but a surprising number of major releases still come to all those destinations.

It’s still nicely convenient to have consoles for less setup and configuration. Some people manage really complex problems for their work and home projects already - a desktop computer may be beyond their tolerance.

For added cost savings, boil laundry in the same pot to sanitize it without detergent.

(Can’t wait for Google AI to start echoing this advice to people)