I thought True Colors was decent enough, but by all accounts Double Exposure was nothing special.
I really liked the anthology thing the series was going with, where every game was telling a different story with a different cast. Maybe eventually getting to the core of answering why these random kids have strange abilities.
But the last thing I wanted was them to try to continue from (what I thought was) a perfect ending. Just seems like they’ve lost the point.
No way, Gowron has more honor in his pinky toe than that man has in his entire body.
The updated Forerunner architecture designs seem directly lifted out of Tron. I can’t imagine it’s a coincidence that Halo 4 released just 2 years after Tron Legacy.
Woden resembling Odin (along with the name)
Just some additional context, Woden is the Anglo-Saxon name for the same god, worshipped in England prior to the arrival of Christianity. Not too different from how the Roman version of Zeus is Jupiter.
The English word “Wednesday” also etymologically derives from “Woden’s Day,” like how Thursday is also “Thor’s Day”
There’s an Xbox Developer Direct next week that will feature Forza, I’m assuming they would have announced it then.
Say what one will, but it’s the cheapest subscription service without ads and it still manages to put out good programming.
Edit: Okay, cheapest of the major streaming platforms. Still can’t beat Dropout in terms of bang for your buck.
Not to say this shouldn’t be treated with the gravity it deserves, but are there any media outlets reporting on this other than the Daily Mail? Not exactly known for being the most reliable rag out there.
He spends more time at Mar a Lago anyways
Playground is planning to fill their games with AI slop, so I can’t say I’m overly interested in anything they have to say or show off.
That just leaves Gamefreak, which simply cannot make a good game if a gun was held to their head, so I don’t have much interest in them either.
But what about 20 1-minute videos? 🤔
Not to mention those companies have divided priorities. Valve’s main income is Steam, they have a vested interest in keeping their product dominant. Microsoft and Epic simply don’t, because their stores are only side projects that incentivise their main income sources. But that’s not to say I want to substitute Steam with some other corpo giant’s latest money grab either.
The bigger question is why more consumer-friendly stores like GOG that sell DRM-free games can’t compete with Steam. High profile games have no incentive to release DRM-free versions of their titles on GOG because the bigger store where they make more money encourages DRM. And these locked-in publisher relationships built on DRM allows Valve to outcompete more consumer-friendly stores through sales and user experience.
Valve gets a lot of clout in the Linux sphere because their adoption of open-source platforms is better than their competitors, and we have the mindset of “a rising tide lifts all ships”, but this is also what we were saying about Google and Android 15 years ago and we can see how that is shaping up. Something something “you either die a hero…”
Basically, Valve is too big to compete with at this point, because any competing product needs to be more perfect out the gate for people to even consider using it. Which is hard to do when you are not as entrenched and don’t have the kind of money Valve has.
I count it as a handheld because every switch can be used as a handheld, while not every switch can be used as a home console.
So I guess why wouldn’t the Switch Lite be counted in those sales? It’s the same device, sans detachable controllers and docking capabilities.
It’s like calling a phone that you can plug into a monitor with peripherals a “desktop”
And a couple of them (PS3, 360) aren’t even pixelated.
Plus the Switch is a handheld, which makes it a weird distinction to make.
Switch has a good chance of overtaking PS2 before the end of its lifespan. The Switch is still selling and still getting game releases.
I wish my wife could play subnautica with me
Well she’s too busy taking care of young Molly to be able to make the time. Maybe have Worf babysit?
Jisho.org is a fairly helpful site for finding words like that. Sometimes you have to scroll a bit to find the “loanword” version of a term, but it helps with showing different nuances of translated words when looking them up.
Unfortunately I think it’s EN-JP only, but helpful if you know the English word you want.
Mostly I didn’t like the first season because it felt like a weird retread of the premise of Mass Effect. Never bothered watching anything beyond that.
Trying too hard to be gritty and serious, when the somewhat campier aspects of TNG are what originally sold me on that series.
TNG had its share of serious and deep plots, but the less serious, self-aware episodes are what give it character.
They do, in the first 2 minutes or so. It’s meant to be something of a gag, when they show him holding a sword and the epic-sounding Game of Thrones theme music begins to swell, only to then cut away to him taking a shit.
I think it could have been handled better, but the takeaway meaning that they appear to be trying to convey is that this is not the same kind of show as Game of Thrones. It’s literally taking a shit on the overly grand stories that preceded it.
I do think the rest of the episode redeems it, at least. It’s a break from the aristocratic backstabbing and scheming, providing a much-needed look into this world from a commoner’s perspective.
Whether the rest of the short season will remain worth watching is another question, though.