I like how this takes familiarity with the original xkcd comic as a given.

I prefer digital for convenience, I never liked the idea of a game not being playable unless there’s some physical media inserted in my device (be it CD, cartridge, or whatever). I only buy physical when getting collector’s editions.

I know many people who were the mouse in this story by going to the hospital in the US, not conceiving that it won’t be free, only to get hit with the trap of huge bills when they get out.

I have that disk too. But I don’t need it if I want to install and play the game today. Same with my Elder Scrolls Online disk or my Assassin’s Creed Unity disk. Neither GW2 nor ESO will even play with just the data on the original disks, forcing updates before becoming playable. Not sure about ACU though.

That’s the joke, but the comments are going both ways on this issue.

I don’t want to hear other people’s music anywhere in public. Don’t force your music on me.

But in nature it’s much worse. Noise pollution is harmful to wildlife. Why would you go out to enjoy nature while at the same time harming it?

I’d wear that on a shirt

I find the heads in the sacrifice room to be clear famous characters, while the half hidden trophies in the second panel to be an easier to miss reference.

Random Rocky and Bullwinkle

Yeah, probably Ghost wouldn’t be my first thought when asked about “that ghost movie”. I was just thinking that if asked specifically about the actress in Ghost, I’d think of the one prominently featured in all the promotional materials, despite Whoopi having the more memorable role.

If you’re not very familiar with JS, watch the Wat talk before taking the quiz to know what to expect from this wonderful language.

Huh. I would have answered Demi Moore.

As a fan if open world RPGs, Valhalla was a great game for me, and I didn’t have any past expectations of an AC game to go by (it was many years since I played Unity when I got into Valhalla).

I definitely enjoyed Unity and didn’t know about its bad reputation until after I finished Valhalla and started looking into which one I should play next. But coming to it again after playing all the previous ones, there was a definite “wtf, why is this not as polished as Black Flag” moment when I started. There are also some big changes from previous games that I had to get used to (no more whistling, no human shield), but I’m still enjoying it and I remember how much I loved exploring Paris the first time I played it (now I’m playing it more in completionist mode than stopping to take in the view).

TL;DR I’m playing Assassin’s Creed Unity this week.

I’ve been playing the entire Assassin’s Creed franchise in release order and this week I’m at Unity. It was actually the first Assassin’s Creed game I’ve ever owned, bought the collector’s edition when it came out.

I first heard of and saw Assassin’s Creed when Black Flag released a free demo on the Xbox One. I absolutely loved it, so the first game in the series to come out after that I just bought right away (and it was Unity). I played it a bunch, finished it and got most achievements, but it didn’t really stay with me that much.

The next game in the series that drew my attention was Valhalla and when I saw it on sale for a ridiculously low price I just snatched it up. Absolutely loved that game, played it to 100% completion of everything, got the game pass and exhausted all content possible out of it.

I wanted more AC and grabbed Origins on sale. Loved that one too, played everything out of it. Still needed more.

But there was a lot of present-day back-story in Valhalla and Origins that I didn’t know about, which is why I decided to go back to the beginning of the series and play every game in order. It has been a great journey, I love seeing how the series progressed, and I also now understand why Unity has such low reviews (every game so far has been a visible improvement over the previous one, except Unity which looks and plays worse than Black Flag). I’m still going to 100% it before moving on though (looks like back in 2014 I didn’t go for 100% on the main sequence, so I scrapped my save file and started over, since I didn’t remember the story anyway).

Apparently Hebrew was written with hammer and chisel initially. Holding the hammer with the right hand and chisel with left, writing from right to left allowed to not cover the already written part with the left arm.

But it’s a fact that most people are right handed even in areas with right-to-left writing. No reason to speculate on things there’s already concrete information for.

Most of those scripts have names that are not the labguage names. There katakana, hiragana, and kanji for Japanese, there’s hangul for Korean etc.

Except in Prometheus the effect was intentional.

users opting into “cloud processing”

Is that something users are opting into or something they need to opt out of?

• Þþ = unvoiced “th” (“thing,” “thong,” “with”)

I pronounce “with” with ð. Am I wrong, or is the list wrong?

Edit: checked the dictionary, looks like both are correct