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Comment Re:Boggles the mind (Score 1) 26

It only makes sense when you consider that one of the best storywriting talents, Amy Hennig, left the company after the first game. That meant Neil Druckmann was free to turn the sequel of a critically-acclaimed zombie apocalypse game into an interactive episode of Jerry Springer that seemed to have little to do with zombies. I get the impression that story could have been told in any setting, but Neil just had to piggyback off of the success of The Last of Us and shoehorn in identity politics to turn the sequel into something almost unrecognizable from its predecessor. And then when the show came along and he had the opportunity to change course after the backlash to the sequel, but instead he doubled down and once again threw it into the dumpster and lit it on fire. Although, I do have to admit that watching someone intentionally burn one of their most successful creations just to antagonize some opponents of a political ideology, and the predictable backlash, was about as entertaining as the original game - and it was all completely free.

Comment Re:Why doesn't Amazon clean up? (Score 3, Interesting) 40

Enterprising sellers were buying Nintendo products in bulk in Southeast Asia and exporting them to the US

This is not illegal but many companies act like it is. Many of those same companies love to take advantage of cheaper labor costs in foreign countries and it's considered "smart business" but don't you dare try to sell products initially purchased from other countries.

What is illegal is price fixing and this may be violating those laws in the U.S. And it wouldn't be the first time Nintendo would be accused of that since they settled a lawsuit for similar behavior with the NES in the early 90s. Luckily for Nintendo, the U.S. doesn't have a Commission that regulates Trade at the Federal level.

Comment Nearing the Edge of Practicality (Score 1) 70

I imagine the comments will be full of people complaining that 16K has few practical uses and I don't disagree. But being able to drive multiple 4K monitors at high refresh rates over a single cable is very appealing to me. And the fact that this setup would be very future-proof is a huge bonus.

Comment System Restore Is a Hack (Score 3, Insightful) 65

Microsoft, it's time to create a copy-on-write file system that can take snapshots and pair it with a boot loader capable of booting from other older snapshots (similar to Time Shift in Linux). Stop dicking around with spyware that no one asked for and start providing features that are actually useful.

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