The article talks about things you should do or not do to prolong the life of your laptop / cell phone battery. The only thing they show for Windows is a free app that "warns" you when the charge is getting too high. They also say you shouldn't let it discharge too much, but you should discharge it completely once a month. Mmmkay. The app I mentioned doesn't do any of these things. It simply warns you when your charge has reached some limit. So why isn't there an app that you can schedule to do all this automatically? Why do I have to be warned or told to do certain things instead of the computer just doing it automatically based on preferences? I don't get it.

Blue wrote on Jun 24, 2022, 17:34:
I'm sorry you feel we are letting you down, being inconsistent, or acting with anything but pure intent.

You run the best website on the internet. You have a fair policy. The simpler the rules the better. Some people are just high maintenance and can't accept that certain gray areas will exist and it's not your job to have to constantly use nuance on whether to moderate posts. How exhausting that would be.

User reviews are the main selection criteria I use for buying / not buying a game.

It has served me well on Steam since its inception, and beats the crap out of "official" reviews biased by who knows what. Of course there are idiots who give crappy reviews. And then there are idiots who don't understand basic statistics.

Epic has stayed away from reviews, which is why I've stayed away from Epic. Figures they're now going to screw even that part up.

Looks like dog crap compared to Subnautica. I guess it's a completely different game, but still...

I've had pretty good luck with Soda Sense. Have had it about 6 months now. I don't get flavors from them. I'm not sure why people focus on that part. You can get those from a variety of places.

But for consistent carbonation I've been pretty happy. You need to make sure the water you're injecting is cold (refrigerated), and I always shake it after injection about 8 times.

Only issue I'm seeing at the moment as I look on their site is that stuff has gotten noticeably more expensive. I'm glad I got a couple extra cylinders before the price went up.

Every time a new Unreal Engine comes out with their spiffy new "demos" everyone is impressed. Same thing happened with UE4.

But you never really see it translated to actual games.

Washington Post is so full of it.

They act like it's just a given that some great injustice is being done and the video game industry is complicit in it. Like it's just obvious on its face.

Um, he doesn't really talk about DNF much at all.

Wow. Reading the PC gamer article I would have sworn it was something from the Onion.

The fact that it isn't makes it even funnier!

Can someone explain to me what Epic has done to make Fortnite relatively free of cheaters??

I hardly ever hear anything regarding them.

I don't touch any of these types of games these days because I assume they'll eventually be infested with cheaters.

Welcome news. A multiplayer game without cheating that I can now enjoy since the silly building stuff is gone. Yay!

I'm not going to even read the article because based on the comments here it's just going to raise my blood pressure. Sounds like pure clickbait to me.

Some of you are hilarious.

First you whine about all the cheating.

Then you whine when companies try to prevent cheating.

Jonjonz wrote on Jan 27, 2022, 06:24:
Just want the market wanted, a cut down,mobile experience in handheld.

F*ck consoles and F*ck mobile.

You're right, it's what the market wanted. Or there wouldn't be such a high demand for it. And if the market didn't want it, then Valve would be losing a lot of $$$ on it. Duh?

Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 12, 2022, 17:56:

This is mainly for two reasons, 1) I don't trust computers. So, having them pay my bills electronically just doesn't sit right. I realize this is silly. There are still plenty of computers involved even when I send a physical check. Those payments are made electronically out of my checking account. 2) My main reason is, "Why make it easy on the companies?" If any of the companies I am paying by check would offer me a small monthly discount to pay electronically directly, I would. Until they do, they can continue spend money producing paper bills, paying postage to send them, and paying to process the checks I send them. F*ck them.

Uh, what? You're also paying for paper checks and the postage to send them. Not to mention the amount of time it takes to write a check, and put everything in the mail. And even though companies pay to send me paper bills through the mail, I still pay them online, for free.

Paragon of Virtue wrote on Jan 6, 2022, 13:45:
Video gamers: "Say no to crunch! Devs work too hard! Damn execs!"
Also Video gamers: "Where's our new stuff? Work harder, dammit!"

Or you could say some video gamers want it one way while others want it the other.

But that obvious (duh) truth wouldn't be so dramatic, would it?

Of course it was a leak. I know they were being investigated. But only the Gruden e-mails were *leaked* to the press.

I would love to know how the Gruden e-mails got leaked and why nothing else was leaked.

So why doesn't Activision use this? Obviously what they have isn't working.