tallest skil

k2kw said:

At $50 for a game that makes Avengers 3 look like chump change.

Must be getting them on sale; they’re 60 for consoles these days. Oh, and don’t forget to buy the Collector’s Edition of every game you want… and then the game, because the games don’t even come with these boxes of tertiary garbage.



Remember the ‘80s? Remember when the game came with filler and not “buy the filler instead of the game”?



EDIT: fine, don’t embed the image. http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/hhgttg/hh06.jpg

lkrupp said:

Is the PC gaming market really that big?

Several billion dollars. It has become a self-sustaining propaganda tool in its own right.

Walking around in a Fry’s or MicroCenter the gaming PCs are humongous boxes with LED lighting flashing all over them, ugly as hell.

Oh, I love those designs. Everyone needs to see a clown or a mime once in a while, you know? Certainly not all the time–clowns get annoying quickly–but if you’re walking along and you see a clown making an absolute fool of himself (cough Alienware cough), it brings a smile to your face. 





I do play games–not so much “hardcore” as in “competitive” but as in “deep, esoteric, and varied”–and for the life of me I could never understand the mindset that would lead to WANTING your computer’s case to look bad, meaning like any “gaming” tower I’ve ever seen. I’m function over form, absolutely. If a “weird” design makes it possible for hardware configurations that otherwise couldn’t have existed, I’ll support that design. But… function is absolutely not improved by these forms.

hammeroftruth said:

Still better than 1983. 

I’ve been hoping for a repeat of the Crash since about 2009. All these companies need to be destroyed, not only for what they’ve done to the classical industry, but for what they’re turning games into. EA, in particular, needs to stop existing.

frankie said:

Yeah, the freedom to get screwed.  Great.

Explain what the (unconstitutional) “net neutrality” bill did to fix the problem of ISPs colluding with one another to have literal monopolies in most cities and regions of the country.

That took WAY too long to stop. At least it’s done.

macike said:

the imminent demise of Airport routers

They are discontinued. I’m pretty sure Apple has warned us.

Mac User’s don’t matter to Apple!

Do we?

Apple products you shouldn’t buy-which included Airpot/Mac Pro /and Air Pods!

That makes sense. One’s discontinued, one is literally four and a half years old with a new model coming next year by Apple’s own admission, and one could well be updated soon.

They even said that Airport Extreme’s worked well and were easy to setup, even though everyone knows that the market has surpassed the Air port Extreme!

Something tells me that they’re right about that, too. Can you name a third party router that is easier to manipulate than the AirPort family?

Why the Mac you know has no future “! 

I just gave that article a look. He says that ARM Macs aren’t in the foreseeable future (which is strange) and that Windows 10 is a gradual, ground-up rewrite of Windows (what the heck is he even saying). I wonder if he’s not the primary voice over there that hates the Mac.

Merrill Lynch was about to file for bankruptcy, when Bank of America swallowed them, but we still respect their expertise…

But why? And I don’t mean “Why trust any banker?” (even though you shouldn’t)–but rather “why trust them specifically when they’re going bankrupt for a reason?” Sounds a lot like the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

Do we throw the financial industry’s advice away? Hell, No!

You should seriously consider it.

Just like the Weatherman didn’t completely predict Hurricane Katrina or the disaster in Puerto Rico

And again, consider throwing out any claims they make greater than 72 hours out. They’re more accurate in very specific parts of the world where weather is extremely stable, but honestly, the belief about them being consistently wrong and never being held accountable exists for a reason.

Technology writers won’t always perfectly predict if Apple is going to update their software or hardware, we honor their analysis, since they are giving us their best educated guesses, tempered by experience, contacts, and insight. 

This, however, I agree with you completely.

Most of the people will continue to listen to and learn from the top mainstream publications and websites on the Apple and computer business.

My problem with that is that they’re clearly stock manipulating most of the time. Doesn’t Apple have recourse for that?