But then they wouldn’t have gotten to go BRRRRRR on that case with a Dremel for two hours OR posts pictures on the Internet of this thing that they almost certainly never used for any sustained period of time.
And what is PC building if not those two things?
I think mine got away with it because it was a small countertop model with a light plastic door. I don’t know if you’d be able to do that for a large embedded family-sized one where you don’t know how heavy the door is because it’s attached to a cupboard cover. You probably do need a motor for that. If not to smoothly open the door at least to give it a little push with a push rod or something.
The point is we have the technology to push a flippy door open automatically, my dishwasher doesn’t need to screech for attention every time it completes a task like a needy toddler.
I never know about “eco” cycles in dishwashers anyway. I mean, those things are efficient in the first place and if you use hot water to wash manually you may not be saving anything against a full cycle. I’m also surprised to hear people complain about them so much, presumably out of getting bad cleaning results. Mine is old and not that high end and I very rarely get a bad load out of it. If one thing was in a blind spot it’s just a matter of leaving it in to go for another run.
I think maybe people don’t know how to use a dishwasher? I’m torn about that one, because on the one hand well designed appliances should be impossible to use incorrectly, so it’s technically the dishwasher’s fault still, but at the same time dishwashers are awesome and having lived without one for a long time I’m never going back to that life. I would get one with an automatic door next time, though.
Well, yeah. Half as much in Europe as in the US, it should be noted. But yeah, it does seem many corpos will either spread the US hit globally to mitigate the sticker shock in the US at the cost of giving some to everyone else (or just as a convenient excuse to squeeze more money out of people). It sucks.
But you would still have to report that you refer to global GDP or to global prices if that’s what you meant. Those numbers are going to be different either way. And that’s not what they are referring to anyway.
I am confused. How can you accidentally push a patch you have no license to acquire?
OK, so I get the headline for the US edition, but why is it the same in the UK/AU/CAD editions? Whose GDP, Tom’s hardware?
Hm. Whoever made microwave ovens with an impossible to clean exposed resistance for broiling in the off chance you felt like making lasagna in a shoebox should be shot into space.
Everybody below pointing out that repeated beeping noises are unacceptable is also not wrong. It’s gotten to the point where half a dozen different things may be beeping in my kitchen, nobody knows which one it is and everybody is in a reverse-race to ignore them to see if someone else goes to deal with it.
I once had a dishwasher that opened the door by itself using magnets instead of nagging you like a needy cat and I miss it every day.
The other guy know what they’re talking about.
Local subtitle tracks to overlap with physical prop text are a thing, too, but not the same. Distributors do have “clean” versions of movies for local distributors and localization houses to recreate and overlay titles and text inserts. It is not that unusual for a TV station (and I presume a streamer, although I’ve never been behind the scenes in one) to get that clean version from the distributor when they purchase a piece of media.
Whether those will take the time to recreate the subtitles themselves, request a localized version or a version with the baked original text is up to how much the people in charge care or how much time they have to care.
IF that is the frame you get it sure looks like a blank background for that purpose. If you cut content for other reasons you… you know, cut the content. You don’t photoshop text out and leave the background that’s both more conspicuous and more work. I tried to verify, but Robin Hood 2010 is not part of Prime in my region and I’m not paying for Robin Hood 2010 for this (or most other reasons).
I would delete this one. It’s almost certainly misinfo.
GoG has decent manual integration. Steam has decent guide integration.
I think it’s a good idea on paper, but at some point having it in an overlay or whatever seems less functional than just bringing it up on a phone or a second screen, you know?
The GameFAQs era will become a bit of a lost age between the print magazine guides and the “IGN became a guide site so slowly we barely even noticed” period.
I wonder if there will ever be some specific nostalgia for it or it was just too short and grungy for anybody to care.
What did you do during the ten minutes it took to load tape games? Or the ten minutes it took to install them from floppy? Or…
Oh, wait, NES/N64, huh? You were into rich kid games.
So what did you do while you were getting driven back from the shop by your valet or whatever you guys had at the time?
All joking aside, I bet there was some divide between console and computer players on that front. I had binders of technical documentation from flight sims and entire novellas that came in RPG and adventure game boxes. The “here’s how to play through the first chunk of the game” tutorials were just one format for that stuff, but perhaps the most platform-agnostic of them.
And, of course, there were walkthroughs and guides in gaming magazines. Getting stuck and waiting for the next monthly issue hoping they’d cover the game was a subtle form of monetization for games journalists even then. “Pivot to guides” has happened before.
Yeah, and old games were just well designed with no handholding and absolutely didn’t include full bullet pointed tutorials for the first hour in the manual as a matter of course.
Gen Z/late millenials trying to interpret retro games they play on emulators with no manuals is the modern “people making extremely detailed marble statues because they don’t realize Romans painted theirs”.
That’s how you end up with Blue Prince and Dark Souls and stuff.
Not even a little bit. Man, you sure like to keep digging when given a shovel, huh?
Look, I’m not here to write a textbook on game publishing, but I do recommend you take that shovel and go dig up some accurate information in the off-chance you’re not just posting whatever autocorrect feeds you as the first word choice.
I’m confused, if you agree the terms don’t show any evidence of spyware or excessive data collection why quote this article specifically in the first place?
And if you agree that the listed information is standard, what is is the “shit like in this article” we’re talking about?
Not having split screen on PC is a bummer, though, and it’s likely mostly revolving around an outdated impression of how games are used on PCs. Unfortunately I believe BL4 is sticking to that policy.
I’m not sure how that makes pirating the game more or less justifiable, though. If what you want is playing split screen that will remain as unavailable on a pirate copy than on a licensed one.
I mean, do what you want, obviously, but while the “removing spyware” thing would have made sense the other thing doesn’t quite.
No, you absolutely are. Publishers will typically pay for retail manufacturing costs (so printing, boxing and shipping), but that’s not the same as digital distribution. Digital distribution doesn’t map to shipping game boxes, it maps to retail.
Which is why games on Steam have deals with publishers, NOT with Valve.
You are mistaking publishing for distribution.
Publishing is not distribution.
Well, hey, I’m going to assume the army of rabid fanboys doing free PR for Steam helps somewhat.
But it’s good to know you support Epic investing more of its money on funding third party games. We may agree after all. I’m not as much of a fan of the implication that it’s Fedi’s own fault that they’re less popular than Reddit and Twitter. I mean, screw network effects, right? Shoulda given users some incentive instead.
Again, Steam doesn’t promo its first party exclusives because making first party exclusives costs money and Steam doesn’t spend money. They don’t have to make exclusives because they have network effects that make every other game be in their store and give them 30% of everything they make. It’s free money.
Especially if you all flip the lid every time Epic pays someone to put their game on their store first or exclusively then there is not much to be done to leverage anything. Epic could co-market until they are blue in the face, but if nobody is buying any third party games there then a huge banner in an empty store is nowhere near as value than the SEO madness that is vying for placement on Steam.
You’re just making excuses for your monpoly because you’ve decided it’s YOUR monopoly even though some billionaire who isn’t you owns it. That’s not an emotional outburst, it’s an accurate observation. Me being frustrated at how insanely dumb that extremely widespread approach to life has become is emotional, I suppose, but I’d say entirely justified.
At the point of re-electing the fascistoid oligarch that your democracy barely survived the first time, is there a difference? If you can’t critical think your way out of the couch for that one you’re not critical thinking super hard.
But I didn’t even mean it that way. Did you eat the propaganda before Trump? The anthem in sports matches, the pledge of allegiance in schools, land of the free, leaders of the free world, 80s movies with Russian bad guys, 00s movies with muslim terrorists, all that jazz?
Trump is critical thinking easy mode and you have the best first hand knowledge of propaganda in the past century. US cultural imperialism didn’t start with Trump. If anything it ends with him.
I mean… where are you from? Looking at your post history you sound American.
You tell me.
I loved Obra Dinn and yet when you said that I drew a complete blank. What I remember of Obra Dinn is figuring out the metapuzzle. And maybe the Kraken.
I think the problem with “gaming moments” is you need a kind of universally communal experience of a game. The reason the Mexico ride in Red Dead became the prototype for THAT is it was maybe the last time we were all playing the same thing at the same time and reading the same things so we could all talk about the same bit at the same time.