I’m not convinced this game’s development cycle wasn’t all just a giant money laundering operation. There’s no way they could spend that much time and that much money only to put out something so universally panned, and not be intentional. All those millions of dollars, and they never hired a single consultant that looked at the project and said “Literally nobody wants this”? I don’t believe it.
It depends on who you ask. Some will say that it’s an uninspired game with outdated and recycled mechanics that nobody wanted in 2024. Others have a much weirder take, and blame the game’s failure on it being “woke”.
I think the real issue is that people are just tired of hero shooters, and Concord brought nothing new to the table for the genre.
Don’t be silly, Capcom would never make a new version of Resident Evil 4.
You’re not wrong, Walter, you’re just an asshole.
This has been a problem on Amazon for ages. Unless you can confirm the seller on the Amazon listing is authentic, you should never buy any storage devices on Amazon, ever.
You are confusing “review” with “advertise”.
I suppose it could be used to streamline ID verification for online purchases? I vape, and whenever I order supplies online I have to go through an ID verification process, usually involving uploading a photo of my driver’s license to some system. If they had a way to tokenize this step, that would make the ordering process a lot simpler.
Could also perhaps be used for something like carding at a bar; just a quick tap on their tablet and they don’t have to sit there looking for watermarks and stuff if you look too young to be there.
What does freezing your credit do, exactly? Is this still something someone should do if they don’t even have any credit cards?
I’ve generally been pretty ignorant toward how credit reporting works.
It’s already infrared. Also, UV is partially visible to humans in some scenarios.
For me, I was enamored with the simplicity of it. You click Start and the Start menu just appears, without having to spend 10 seconds connecting to the internet to refresh a bunch of tiles that I never wanted in the first place. There wasn’t any half-baked “assistant” trying to suggest new spyware for me to install. It didn’t try making me sign into a Microsoft account just to open the photo gallery. The only “bloatware” it came preinstalled with was Outlook Express. The whole experience just made the computer feel like a tool to use for a purpose again.
It’s funny, because I remember thinking when Vista and subsequent versions of Windows came out, that it was amazing we ever survived with something as primitive as XP. But these days, all I want is to go back to that.
I actually briefly used an XP machine a few months ago, for the first time in many years. It was weird, it felt like I was revisiting an old childhood home or something. Everything was right where I remembered it, everything worked the way I expected it to.
I kinda want to go back. We never realized how good we had it.
Agreed! The quality and quantity of the content in that DLC are enough to qualify for a standalone game. Not to mention all the wild new mechanics that the DLC introduces, and work seamlessly with the rest of the game. TTAODK was probably the best piece of content Gearbox will ever produce.
Yeah, I’m not sure how I feel about some of the casting as I’m kinda tired of seeing Kevin Hart and Jack Black in everything lately (I’m surprised I didn’t see The Rock in the trailer somewhere, to be honest), but the overall feel of the trailer seems to match the energy that the games had. I’m not saying it’s 1:1 accurate by any means, but the trailer definitely manages to feel like Borderlands. I imagine the writers for the movie didn’t want anybody from the main group to feel like a “downer” character, so Roland’s probably being reworked a bit.
I’m okay with it so far, at least. It’s generally pretty hard to make the “strong, quiet type” very interesting, especially for a movie format where you have limited screen time that has to be shared among a lot of characters. You can make that sort of character interesting, like in No Country For Old Men, but you have to dedicate a lot of time to it, and that’s not easily done with a story that has so many characters with their own stories to tell.
I dunno, I’m just remaining optimistic. I want to like this movie.
I forgot that they were making this. I just checked the trailer, and it surprisingly doesn’t look terrible. As far as video game adaptations go these days, this actually seems pretty true to the source material.
I imagine it’ll be one of those movies that’s terrible for general audiences, but will probably be well-received among its niche. As a huge fan of the first two Borderlands games, it looks solid and I actually want to watch this.
I highly, highly recommend playing BL1 and BL2. They’re fantastic games, and wonderfully written. Not all of the humor has aged really well (nothing offensive, just mostly very 2010’s-specific humor), but the gameplay still holds up today, IMO. The DLCs for BL2 are particularly good, and among some of the best DLCs I’ve seen for any game.
It’s absolutely absurd what people are willing to pay for cosmetics. I’m not about to tell anybody what they should do with their own money; do whatever makes you feel happy, even if that means buying a digital hat. But I’ve seen some wild shit.
I used to be one of the top-rated middlemen in the TF2 trading scene, and was a SteamRep admin for several years. This was back before Steam Marketplace existed and before there were reliable, bot-managed escrow services for these grey market sales. I oversaw some pretty big trades in that time. I remember one of the larger ones I oversaw was for a BFTC, and I think the buyer spent over $1000 on it.
And you can bet your ass I played a few games with it on while I waited for them to finalize the payment; I’m no better than a valet taking your car for a joyride while you eat dinner. :)
[click click, click click click click] Hmm, why’s it not… Honey, did we pay the mouse bill this month?
Nah, these days you just give out a $10 Uber Eats code to those affected.
YouTube isn’t remembering your progress for this video. I just opened an incognito window and searched YouTube for “gnu taler” as you mention, and in my results I see the same progress bar. I’ve never seen this video before, and certainly have never watched it.
For some reason, YouTube is adding a timestamp argument to the URL within the search results. Not sure why, maybe it’s a “smart” detection of moving you to the spot in the video that’s relevant to the term “gnu taler”. But it certainly has nothing to do with you, specifically.
Elon is a fucking terrorist. Deport his ass back to daddy’s emerald mines.