All I remember about Rage is buying it and then immediately refunding it. This was several years after release and somehow it still had stupid issues with Radeon video cards. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

I suppose maybe that’s fixed by now, but I never went back.

The patent is a lot less interesting than it sounds initially.

It instantly made me think of the original Borderlands and how my friends and I would try to see how long we could “bounce” on each others heads, because if you jump on top of another character, you’ll just keep “bouncing” off of their head.

It’s tricky to keep landing on them, even if they’re not moving!

I kind of figured they meant that something dumb like that could be turned into an actual mini-game within a game, allowing you keep score.

No, the patent is way fucking dumber, sounds like more stupid AI bullshit, and basically focused on dumb streamer shit.

how Sony and Arrowhead kinda shot themselves in the foot with account linking.

The graph from the article literally proves the opposite.

Account linking happened May 6th. It is on the graph as point “A.”

There is a small increase in the decline of the player count, but you had already lost almost 200,000 players since the last peak on April 1st!

So between April 1st and May 6th the game went from around 370,000 players to around 170,000 players, and the current player count literally can’t drop the same level because that would be less than zero.

So, the bigger drop came way before account linking, friend. The game was already dying, and the account linking just firmly put it out of its misery.

Most wholesome outcome.

…and once again, warnings stating “DO NOT BUILD THE TORMENT NEXUS” go ignored.

Gender and sexual identity are way more fluid than people want to give credit for.

So looking for a “final answer” at any point in your life might be biting off more than you can chew.

I’m a cis-man, but I’m personally with the Gender Anarchy folks. We’re stuck in weird gender roles that literally don’t matter anymore and maybe androgyny or things like it truly are the way forward.

Synema is not a Democrat, and it says so right there on the linked page. She switched to Independent after righteously screwing the party along with Manchin. For what it’s worth, Manchin changed to Independent as well.

Both parties are more successful as opposition parties than they are actually “leading.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

This is the NYT literally apologizing for their massive fuckups in the lead up to the War in Iraq where they basically just accepted the Party Line of what was going on. Democrats fell in line as to not be viewed as “soft on terror.”

They took Republican administration officials at their word and didn’t do anymore digging.

…but sure hyping up a war pushed by a Republican administration based on lies made up by that same administration is soooooooo liberal.

lmao narrative

Jesus Christ get a grip.

I guess the NYT definitely didn’t hype us up for war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nope, never.

The NYT never breathlessly repeated the accusations of Weapons of Mass Destruction without questioning their sources as to the validity of those claims, yup.

You gotta be fucking shitting me.

EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

The NYT outright admitting they just sold the entire country lies for the Bush admin.

Another series worthy of discussion!

They got it from an AI because doing your own research is too hard, apparently. These are all Brave browser AI summaries.

This chucklefuck who doesn’t know how to do research thinks he can wing it using an AI.

EDIT: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

Here’s the NYT apologizing for their massive fuckups in the leadup to the War in Iraq because they were too busy NOT questioning anything the Bush administration had to say and were busy covering up stories for them. WHOOPSIE DOODLES.

Sounds real fucking liberal to me. /s

Man, maybe you’re getting downvoted hard because you’re busy using an AI to do your fucking thinking for you instead of digging up relevant information yourself to prove it.

Nice attempt at sidestepping how often they capitulate to Republican administrations.

You know, you bring up a really good point, honestly.

My friend had a similar complaint about Baldurs Gate III.

“Why so much body horror and gore? When I was growing up and playing DnD, we were never exploring that kind of stuff. DnD can be so much more than just body horror and gore.” Not verbatim, but you get the idea.

As much as I love BG3, I don’t actually disagree with his sentiment at all.

There should be an opportunity for people to play similar style of games that aren’t so gory or depressing or both. Not every stealth game needs to be cyberpunk and depressing.

Georgia’s largest newspaper or the New York Times aren’t right leaning at all

In fucking fantasy-land maybe.

New York Times literally sat on a story about illegal wiretapping on US citizens by the NSA for over a year at the behest of the Bush administration.

I would think someone with the username NoSuchAgency might be familiar with that…

The main people who the NYT are aimed at are literally rich New Yorkers with an extra house in the Hamptons. You can look at their Leisure section and it becomes ridiculously clear they’re catering to an elite set and not regular people.

Sorry, but the rich elite generally are way more conservative than your average person, even if they claim liberalism.

EDIT: Let’s not forget how absolutely HYPED the NYT was for THE WAR ON TERROR.

EDIT II: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

Or any area of your body where there’s a lot of blood vessels near the surface of your skin.

I like standing in a cool shower and letting the cool water run over the front and back of my neck.

Excellent point, I wasn’t aware of that one. Not that we should always treat the past as indicative of the future, but rather, it’s clear that choosing such a path is playing with fire. For a litany of reasons.

Sadly, with Trump, we can’t afford to play with fire, period.

Wet T-shirt and sitting in front of a fan.

We naturally cool our bodies by sweating.

You can sort of hack that process by getting a t-shirt wet, putting it on, and allowing the moving air to help speed up the evaporation process.

WARNING: NOT FOR USE IN HIGH HUMIDTY.

Adding more water to an already hot and humid situation risks a Wet Bulb.

Exactly, the moment to replace him was from the get-go. Now we’re logistically in too deep without splitting the entire party and essentially just handing the win to Trump. (Thanks so much DNC, it’s totally clear you know better than the voters in your own party. /s)

I blame ineffectual Democrats who are more concerned with their power inside their own party for the rise of fascism as much as the fascists themselves, because their fucking buffoonery and chicanery literally enable the fascist Republican crime spree.

I mean fuck, look how long they carted out Dianne Feinstein pretending she was still a functional human being instead of just running anyone the fuck else.

System Shock 2 is begging for a remake with actually functioning netcode for multiplayer way more than the original.

Bioshock would eventually iterate on this, but the RPG systems of System Shock 2 are so, so deep, and I always appreciated that you could still get attacked by enemies while trying to hack machines. It made doing things like hacking feel very dangerous. Bioshock literally pauses time for you it’s so weak by comparison.