Something I’ve kinda come to accept about Gearbox is that Pitchford is an ass and sometimes they farm out products when they shouldn’t (ACM bring the biggest example), but most of the devs actually working on the games really do care about the product and want it to be good.

The multi-player maybe. But they’ve consistently delivered excellent single-player experiences with their flagship titles. GTA 3, VC, SA, IV, and V were all amazing. RDR1 was spectacular, and RDR2 may be the most impressive game I’ve ever played.

At this point, I trust Tockstar to deliver a good single-player game. I don’t really expect much in the way of the quality DLC we got with GTAIV and RDR, but I think the base game will easily be enough for me to justify a purchase.

I’m still gonna wait and see, of course. They’re not getting a pre-order out of me.

They’re openly calling for the end to the 1st amendment now, and not getting pushback.

Yes, this was always the plan, but the assassination gives them.cover to do it now instead of doing it slowly over the course of years. That means that by the time the next election comes around, being a registered Democrat will get you on a terror list.

I’m not sad he’s dead. I hate how he died because it’s giving cover to their acceleration of their fascism.

I haven’t, and I really should. Like, REALLY should. I was college roommates with and took part in the wedding of someone high enough at Gearbox that I can’t say their role without doxxing myself, and we’ve stayed really close.

Yes. The out of left field had more to do with what was expected going in. We all expected silly D&D and fart jokes. We didn’t expect a legitimately touching examination of grief and denial to bring depth to a silly character.

BL2 was great. Some of its DLC was even better. Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the best looter shooters ever made. The gameplay was a blast. The jokes were funny…And out of left field it broke your fucking heart by secretly being about a young, traumatized girl’s grief.

I wonder if it has something to do with how they count users with ad blockers.

I thought it was rough-cut dimensions.

So… a PC?

They really are close to plug and play. You need to know that parts are compatible, but that’s true for anything.

The Castlevania date is a little misleading, however.

Castlevania changed from a simple linear level-based side-scroller to the open world exploration, progression, and backtracking formula of the Metroidvania genre with Symphony of the Night in 1997.

Middle class is a fabrication designed to make the working poor think they’re better off than they really are.

They’re waiting until all the products in the wild can be locked down.

Right now, they’re struggling to get people.to jump to Windows 11, and people are hoarding their old computers. They want all the products that don’t have TPM or its equivalent to be outmoded before they remove the mask.

You also can’t opt out of other people sharing your shit.

They’re great when you need one or 2 and they’re used properly.

But if I need 2,000 screws, I’m going to the hardware store instead of spending 82 hours printing screws.

Sure would be nice to be privileged enough to be able to relocate myself and my family.

And, increasingly, there’s no such thing as offline.

The more impressive thing is that they managed to get the Nvidia upgrade to be backwards compatible with existing Framework 16 models.

That’s the push I need to really, truly believe they’re committed to the goal of upgradablity. Too many “modular” products have come out where the “upgraded” modules were only available if you bought the newest version of the base product.

In the next year or so, I’ll probably be buying a new laptop, and this has convinced me that Framework is probably the way to go.

Didn’t they just lose a major lawsuit over their treatment of sideloaded apps and stores?

I legitimately forgot all of those plot points. I saw it in the theatre right after it opened and mostly remember it being really bad and aimless with Palpatine having been resurrected off-screen with no explanation, and the movie working hard to act like 8 didn’t happen.

I walked away thoroughly unimpressed and don’t even remember much of what happened.

Like - after your recap there, I still don’t remember anything about Chewie dying OR not dying, and I still don’t know if he made it to the end. I was (and still am) a die-hard Star Wars fan, and I can’t believe that not only do I remember the last film so poorly that not know if one of the OG heroes survived the last film, but I don’t really even care.