Author: Jack Slater
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Reddit Has Learned Nothing. Nothing Has Changed.
There is this draft of an essay I’ve been trying to write for a few weeks about how people don’t understand what free speech is. It isn’t something afforded to users of private websites. Private websites have choices in what they host beyond the legalities of their locality. When a user is banned from a private…
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Elite Dangerous: Horizons
David Braben: We’re beginning with airless, rocky worlds — places where a great deal of new gameplay can take place. These are planet-sized sandbox environments, with all sorts of things to discover hidden on them. You’ll find surface starports, crashed ships, mineral deposits, hidden bases and more. These worlds are gigantic, and – like the…
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The End of Shitty Printers
Wilson Rothman has this review of a new printer series from Epson: Epson’s new move is a sly one. Rather than compete on price, the printer maker is dropping the cartridge issue entirely. When you buy an EcoTank printer–for instance, the ET-2550, which closely resembles Epson’s XP-420–you fill up its four-chambered reservoir with ink from plastic…
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Evan Lahti Loves Dirty Bomb
Evan Lahti has this article on how much he loves Splash Damage’s Dirty Bomb: At its peak, when some popular streamers and YouTubers were being paid to play it, Dirty Bomb was drawing as many as 13,000 concurrent players. I didn’t get swept up by that initial wave of attention, but I wish I had: Dirty Bomb, still…
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Konami Treats Their Employees Like Shit
Brian Ashcraft has a translation of a report from Nikkei about how Konami treats their employees. Unsurprisingly, it’s awful. Your next game fails after a string of successes? You’re now demoted to scrubbing toilets, cleaning gym equipment, or making slot machines.