The options are ‘yes’ and ‘double yes’.

I think it’s equivalent to void, not a boolean.

They’re already equipped and used for environmental research. It’s probably just greenwashing, but it’s a hell of a lot more than other billionaires have bothered with.

They publicly announced the rename, which was the first time most people heard any Overwatch-related news in years. People remembered the game existed and went to check it out; turns out a lot had changed and word of mouth spread, bringing even more players.

Painball.

The rename takes effect on the tenth.

They renamed Overwatch 2 to Overwatch, which drew major attention back to the game for the first time in years.

Michael Pachter being comically wrong and out of touch was a running joke at Ars Technica and gamesindustry.biz back in the day. He’s the Jim Cramer of industry analysts.

“Russia, if you’re listening?”

Did the Pi Pico ever make any headway in the microcontroller space? It looked interesting when it was first announced but I haven’t seen it mentioned anywhere since.

This is the first time I’ve ever seen anyone else reference Save the Date. It’s one of my favorite visual novels despite its simplicity, and was a prime example of metafiction years before games like Undertale and DDLC made it popular.

I mostly enjoyed their previous survival game Conan: Exiles, but lost all interest in Dune the moment I learned you couldn’t play solo offline. Conan was live service too, so it’s not like forced multiplayer is necessary to the formula.

Horizon

lower-spec

Here’s hoping. The first Horizon was also the first game to not run on my decade-old mid-range PC, and now’s a terrible time to need an upgrade.

Man, remember when God Eater was the closest thing we had to Monster Hunter on PC? That was rough.

Have any clones done the genre justice? I can’t think of a single one that rivals even Monster Hunter’s worst entries (unless you count Dragon’s Dogma, but the resemblance is skin-deep).

Just nuked my CachyOS install with a routine update and switched to Bazzite after repairing it in chroot failed. I enjoyed the entire process, even the failures.

He knew his father was Anakin Skywalker. He didn’t know that Anakin was a Jedi until Obi Wan told him in A New Hope (his uncle lied and said he was a freighter pilot or something), and didn’t know Anakin and Darth Vader were the same person until the end of The Empire Strikes Back (because they weren’t the same person until the writers decided on that twist while making that movie).

Leia being his sister was a similar twist pulled out of their asses while writing the third movie, in the hopes of recreating the “I am your father” hype.

Just launch Walter Dornez at them. At some point it becomes basically the same thing.

I could never get the timing down on the dueling minigame. Chain shot is risk-free (and cost-free since dueling risks your crew), plus the dueling minigame gets harder as your character gets older but your sailing muscle memory remains reliable forever.

In Sid Meier’s Pirates! it was the objectively correct choice 99% of the time. Even a tiny ship could take out a ship of the line with a few well-placed chain shot barrages, and ships would pretty much always surrender the instant they lost their mast.

I think the story battles were an exception to the instant surrender rule, but without their sails you could switch to grape shot and pepper their helpless vessel until they had no crew left, then board for an instant victory.

I miss that game. I should redownload it and see how it holds up.

His catchphrase to get kids interested in mining: “Don’t forget to bring a trowel!”