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Avowed, other than a couple of little things and one companion, was not that bad; The Garrus-voiced companion had a gay relationship briefly touched upon in one quest, for instance and there was a DEI companion who never shut up about Woke BS the whole time who I left at camp the entire time. I...

The only thing keeping MS its current Desktop OS position is A) Windows ubiquity; Market inertia. It's the same thing that kept Intel as the biggest chipmaker FOREVER, until they weren't. Now, MS has multiple standards that aren't going anywhere, Office, Windows, Azure, etc, and the Services...

"No no now wait, get this: We are going to do an Xbox One but the OTHER WAY. Rather than taking over the living room, our thing is going to take over the OFFICE. BAAAAALLLLLZZZ"

I was reading though some old Penny Arcades and found this gem: Grift. It never changes.

Age of Conan -- Play for Free!!! I've played about 1 day of this, since at the time the word was it was great up to the City™/level 20 and not so good afterwards? but I watched Az play quite a bit of it and it seemed pretty great in whatever form he was playing at the time, this would have been...

What's sad is WOW was so big it basically drained all other lakes, I guess, so there wasn't enough left over for GW2 and TSW and all of these other admittedly more niche MMOs to survive together. Or the Devs didn't plan effectively for how many players they would need, etc. Or they didn't go...

Was it one month before GW2? Because I felt like I spent a fair amount of time with TSW and after GW2 released, it pulled me in completely; I played multiple classes to 80. Looking it up, they were one calendar month but almost two months apart: TSW "released" 3-July-2012 and GW2 released...

New World has a lot of problems but the skill system and combat, at least previously, were really a lot of fun. They needed to do Eve economics in New World to make the game work: EQ economics was never going to last when you are constantly crafting new items and currency into an economy and...

That's a great point, and I didn't consider it only because the 3D graphics but absolutely agree M&M3 and even the Ultimas, I started with Ultima 3 and then went back (or tried to) to the earlier ones on my Apple IIe. I will need more space to full deploy my maxima mea culpa. Daggerfall may be...

I got into Legends, My guy Shotgun/Hammer guy was in the Desert; I can't remember before or after the big fight at the hotel. I would assume before, since I am still with the rebels. That train mission in Egypt still stands out to me as AMAZING. All of Kingsmouth is fantastic, especially the...

I bought the full fucking boat version on like 17 different platforms, so surely I have it somewhere it can be modded. (Really just Steam/Upgrade from Gamepass/MS Store, and Xbox; I also bought a Starfield Xbox controller, Super Deluxe edition(s), and and upgraded my 3080 to a 7900XTX to play...

I used a literal regular long "shoebox" cassette recorder for the tape drive with my TI-99 4/A; when I moved up to the Apple IIe I got 5.25 floppy drives, first one and then another like Vuuxo.

OMG, they don't let you play through the Light and Dark Saga? It legit was one of the (most milked but) best long running stories in gaming; Destiny basically invented the Game-As-A-Service (GAAS) genre. I first bought a PS4 only to play Destiny. If they don't have a way for new players...

I have a bunch of archived emails, looking for where I potentially reset this password; looked through various traunches, got back to where I was in the beta in 2011, where I was recommending the game to friends, where I bought the box from Amazon, various comic book-esque "issues" from Funcom...

Password reset for classic server is 404 :(

OMG I loved this game, even with all the FunCom™ bugginess. One of the few games I played all the way through and made it halfway through a second faction character. I will download this and see to what I have access. I THINK I got a lifetime sub as well. Someone is making a TTRPG version for...

Those were some AMAZING memories of getting my Xbox 360; I wasn't much of a console guy AT ALL. I was way late to the party, in June 2007 I was switching jobs and had a couple of weeks off, it was my birthday, summer just starting. They delivered that big white box, firing up the 360 with XBOX...

Yet we don't have any awesome Soviet Armored Bears in these games? Where is the Bear representation, BIGOTS? By the way, what was previously called ESG: Environment, Social, and Governance investment, is being rebranded to "transition investment", so when they pay gaming companies millions to...

Yeah, Soviets were the most egalitarian in their gender policy, mostly out of necessity and had had the most women participants, with about 8% of their total military of 34m being women. They still had super-low numbers of women in combat roles, this Reddit post goes in depth into (his)...

If they cancel the whole project, guaranteed there are provisions that pay AMD something big for their work and loss of expected income; AMD isn't designing a chip expected to bring in multi-year revenue for a promise. But for MS with like 12% market share at this point and no real plan to win...

This movie was awesome. It's a classic sports movie told through the lens of F1 racing. I mean, we had the talk about liking bad things and that's ok but knowing they are bad; I guess now we need to have that flip side conversation about just because you dislike something doesn't make it...

HDR isn't an issue for me but I use a 43" LG C4 as a my only monitor, and it switches on and off as games implement it.

The whole market push has been for PvP competitive low latency/High FPS experiences; more people are staying on 1440p and going for 240/360 fps; hence the high refresh monitors. I don't like it, as I have been playing on big (43") 4k monitors since 2008?ish (all hail 30fps) and am not going...

Not only is that super well done, I really wish I could have bought into this game at that backer price. It looks AMAZING.

The tale of a woman's husband coming back to bed after getting high, told in 4 images:

Just now on the X dot com:

He's just about efficiency, IIRC. I may be conflating it with a Spielberg quote here, but if has what he needs, he doesn't feel the need to get the last 10%; I know he doesn't put a lot of stock in Kubrickian takes. Easy mistake to make; Burt was hoping audiences made that same mistake in 1981.

There is a faction that wants to keep doing what they are doing, and a faction that wants to get out of the games business (as much as they can, they just bought a 70B publisher; they haven't even written off the bribes yet) altogether because its too capital intensive and not providing ROI...

I mean, you can see the way they filmed; lots of movies looked much like TV because of the need to be sure they got it right; the lighting, mics, etc in tthe 40s and 50s were limiting. You can watch the tech advance and gloves come off in the late 50s and 60s, the craft [Edit: the comment about...

All of the Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry Movies are great, although they swung back towards Lefty politics a bit with the sequels: Magnum Force was about a Cop Vigilante Murder Squad; The Enforcer tried to split the difference with the villains being hippy communists but Harry training a new woman...

This had such great potential, I don't know if its tech or time or ideological but looking at this map I can imagine a game where the narrative, skills, factions, world and economy comes together to make this a BRILLANT experience. Sadly we don't live in that timeline.

We have built-in handles, not built in slots.

I am still fairly new to POE/POE2, didn't enjoy .1 but came back for .3 and enjoyed LA/LR Deadeye as a starter, went all the way to through campaign and started maps with it. Saw some videos and went through again with a Empowered Leap Slam/AfterShock Titan and OMG has been the best experience...

Never played but I always heard about this from my British buddy (I mean, he talked about it on the regular; it was a formative part of his life growing up seemingly). Pic unrelated.

MS desperate to kill/get out of the (other than PC) game business, the billions they make from the space not enough for the investment. Watching internal corp fights play out on the screens of millions.

It's amazing that from 5 years ago at the pinnacle of console hardware, with three diverse approaches to the market (MS PC/Gamepass; Sony 1st/3rd party Exclusives, Nintendo Walled Garden/Distinct IP) Only Nintendo remains standing. MS has completely cratered as a business operation; they are...

Need Mass Effect in 2008 but otherwise I don't a single issue with this list. Every one of these (I didn't play a few, like GOWs, Metro 2033, or a few of the others) were amazing gaming experiences. Edit: I didn't get the context of the post, I thought we were talking about how Deus Ex BELONGED...

Well, until the Blockbuster Era started with Jaws, almost every sequel was a cash-grab remake of the original. Sequels weren't bigger and better, they were diminishing returns on the originals. You didn't get many Godfather 1&2s or Star Wars OT, you mostly got Friday the 13th 1-9, Herby Goes...

Their cuisine never got over WWII. It's a joke but its also serious. Those Youtube Brit's (Fake Edit: JOLLY who have 5m subs now, sweet mother) who came to America trying American Food™, mostly in the South, then brought that back to the UK for other Brits to try never get old. Also, they have...