Old Androids Never Die, They Just Have A Few Screws Loose
So you've probably heard by now that well-known and SUPER trustworthy company Microsoft has cut a deal to buy up that scion of feminism Activision Blizzard, for the bargain price of $69 (nice) Billion dollars in cash. Honestly, I couldn't really care much less, as Overwatch has been sliding downhill slowly and I'm not invested […]
gamers, talking to Ubuntu devs: we want better performance and access to bleeding-edge drivers Ubuntu devs: snaps? gamers: no, performance and drivers Ubuntu devs: snaps! gamers: bye
I remain unconvinced that there isn't a concerted effort to take down streamers and gamers in the last week, but I think this article has new relevance. In the bad old days of abstinence education, purity pledges, and 7th Heaven on The WB television network, the common wisdom about sex went something like this: guys […]
Just a note for anyone looking around the ruins here for old PSO players: Until a standalone installer is made available, I won't be playing PSO2, as I am a full-time Linux user and don't own an XBox. I MIGHT play if/when a downloadable installer becomes available that I could get working through WINE or […]
If it proves nothing else, this pandemic has demonstrated that people aren't really dying from sickness, they're actually dying because there's not enough dollars, and people refuse to work together without dollars being involved. We could be making enough masks and ventilators. We could be graduating doctors, training nurses, building hospitals. We could be doing […]
New thing to do: One game each of Overwatch: WinCounterstrike: LoseVainglory: WinLeague: Lose Practice makes perfect.
Today has been a nasty week. Between a two-day running argument with a group calling themselves "Anarcho-Capitalists" ending in the revelation that a rape victim in their utopia would have to self-fund her own justice, and listening to someone I normally trust go hardline-centrist for no apparent reason, I am mentally exhausted already. This "ancap" […]
So, gruesome but (maybe) amusing thought: You know how back in gym class, if you didn't want to participate, it was easiest to get out of it by being really, really bad at the sport and getting your team angry at you by playing badly? Wonder how well that would work at a gun range....
So here we have the GLUON robot arm kickstarter, which looked like a pretty damn cool toy at an amazing price. Of course, it was too good to be true, and yet another kickstarter ends up being ruined with no recourse and no explanation from anyone involved. This officially puts my Kickstarter record at more […]
Don't believe the nasty stereotypes about male gamers being pigs? Try reading the chat during a woman's yoga stream on Twitch.