Absolutely amazing gaming experience. Visuals, sound, puzzle balance, the implied narrative and of course that last sequence. Gaming art, in the same way that The Stanley Parable is.

MT Silver wrote on Dec 25, 2017, 19:52:

Sleeeeepy wrote on Dec 25, 2017, 18:41:
Now that is some serious dedication. Bravo.

It's looped actually so they're cheating.

Yeah it would have been surprising if it was completely legit I guess! Excellent troll though, I don't actually follow overwatch but I like this guy already

Now that is some serious dedication. Bravo.

Yeah is a bank holiday here. Wasn't aware it was a US holiday too.

Well at least this is less likely to be brought down by the cost of anti-phallus technology

Is this guy for real?

Does he not realize that Internet connections in Europe, both fixed line and mobile, are superior in almost every way in terms of cost and speed, mainly thanks to strict regulation and forward planning?

Yes he probably does realize that, but being in the pocket of the big corps, he's preaching a North Korea style "Everything is great guys" message. And most people don't have the background knowledge to call him out on his bullshit.

Agent-Zero wrote on Feb 22, 2017, 03:20:
so i dont think thats the smoking gun here

Terrible pun aside, I'd be pretty certain it's a key factor though likely just one of many.

Very sad situation, hopefully his kids were old enough to know him a bit before the end.

Great to see XCOM 2 on there. I had guessed it did pretty well, but didn't realise it did Above CoD well.

Kxmode wrote on Sep 21, 2016, 22:56:
Perhaps Activision wants to license Battle.net as a Networking engine within their network of companies, or beyond (e.g. Frostbite). It would make sense to call it "Blizzard tech" as the name implies a platform built on Blizzard's reputation, whereas Battle.net sounds more like a service.

This makes a lot of sense and seems to be the most likely case.

This is all so corny

I love that it's also Jonathan Coulton doing the "Previously On" songs on Braindead. Check it out if you haven't already

Kxmode wrote on Mar 29, 2016, 12:44:
As a former Orc, and member of the Horde, I find this offensive! #OrcLivesMatter

I wasn't really paying attention to the headline and read it as Orcs Must Diet which might be appropriate in certain cases, however it's also important to enjoy the finer things in life.

This seems incredibly reasonable and a great idea. I'm more about Battlefield than CoD but even I am tempted by this.

CJ_Parker wrote on Oct 3, 2015, 13:17:
- Battlefield 4 (168 hours - yes you can play the SP campaign too)

Is this a typo? No wonder it's so effective for people to use burner origin accounts so they can run around BF4 with their cheats enabled at no financial risk to themselves.

I was on the train once and saw a bunch of interesting looking houses off the side of the line. Wanted to look at the design a bit better using streetview and it turned out just one of the houses had been blurred out. So I saved it as a point on google maps to actually visit later out of curiousity.

A few months later I did end up walking nearby and there was nothing different about that one house compared to the others. Took a picture anyway. Barbara Sreisand eat your heart out.

First time I came across it was the BF3 Rendezook that spawned the first Only in BF3 video competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOaGhE_sejI

nin wrote on Jul 27, 2015, 16:08:
If you're going to say it's incorrect, could you elaborate on why exactly????

Fair point. For a start, because it's the localhost address that means for the headline to be accurate the "seed" would have had to have been coming from the exact same machine used to compile the list. Highly unlikely. Of course, it's possible that the machine was briefly acting as part of a torrent swarm in order to get peer IP's, but that would very unlikely to be long enough to provide a full seed and in either case this would be an authorised act on the part of the agency hired to perform this locate-and-takedown function for the studio.

Also given the suffix to the localhost url, others have noted some some P2P systems run via a local proxy meaning that this full URL including the #/fr/ bit is a call to that proxy which then connects to peers from there. It could either have been left on the list by accident, or to avoid people googling this exact URL to locate more information connected with piracy and how to use these utilities. Either way, not a "pirated copy...seeded from its own servers".

So yeah, stupid clickbait headline, highly unlikely to be accurate. I think some of the things these companies do is disgusting and self-serving to a stupid extent, but I'd rather save the collective indignation for stuff that's actually true.

Some pretty poor reporting from the guardian there. Sadly when it comes to tech, sometimes the temptation to reach the clickbait headline rather than get someone more knowledgeable to fact-check wins out.

Got a bunch of copies in my inventory to give away too, pity it's such a PITA to buy multiple copies on steam.

Hope you're not planning on stopping anytime soon! I simply don't know of any other site that presents all this info in one place so well.

Plus, yknow, oldskool humour.