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Giant Bomb is dead, then. Whatever comes next can't be the real Giant Bomb without them.

First of all, this seems like baiting people for self promotion youtube clicks?

Frankly, your premise that people should just be happy with how games look and run if it meets your self-defined minimum standard of acceptable is kind of ridiculous.

Of course the Switch version of Outer Worlds looks totally fine and is completely playable and recognizable as a videogame, but that doesn't mean everyone should just blindly accept that and be happy with whatever they get. If I am paying $60 for a game and I have the capacity to play it on multiple consoles or the PC, then I absolutely want to get the best version of that game for me.

What is the best version of that game? That is the part that is completely subjective, and also what you are trying to argue about. If you can accept that the switch port is the worst looking version of the game graphically and in terms of performance because you value the portability, or you are able to play it on your TV or whatever, then that's awesome and totally valid. For me personally, I want to play the version where I can get the best framerate because I enjoy the smoothness that 60+fps provides, so the PC version is the best version for me. Also valid.

Discussion about these differences by gamers and websites like Giant Bomb are important because it helps everyone make informed purchasing decisions and protect people from spending a lot of money on something that might not meet their expectations.

Also, while it might be true that the average gamer at large doesn't have a nice gaming PC, it's also important to consider that Giant Bomb absolutely caters towards the more "hardcore" audience that has a lot more invested on average than the typical gamer, so I don't think your assumptions there are really very accurate.

OKAY, and now to talk about what I agree with in what you're trying to say.

Yes, obviously people take the relatively small (sometimes) differences in versions of games and blow them up to huge deals. The games industry and gamers in general are huge fucking babies and do this shit all the time and its annoying as all hell. That being said, in my many years of experience, its generally a vocal minorityish of gamers, and generally its very young gamers that feel the need to defend and justify their (or their parent's) purchase decisions to others online.

I grew up playing games on low settings or enduring really awful framerates because it didn't really matter to me that much back then, and I was still getting most of the experience out of the game. As I'm sure a lot of GB veterans will attest to, as I got older and had more money to spend in gaming hardware and in life, my expectations for what was acceptable increased. I still think people that say they can see the difference between 120 fps and 144fps are snobs and full of shit, but definitely playing games on 3fps feels bad to me now on some games, especially first person stuff when I'm trying to aim, So I understand both arguments pretty well.

PS: Good luck with the money situation dude.

I still think about this whenever user questions come up at events.

Got it for free on PS4 and ended up really enjoying playing it coop with a friend despite us both not enjoying Destiny 1 at all, so we both bought the 1+2 DLC (2 days before it went free RIP), and we enjoyed that enough to buy Forsaken.

Check out the SONOS speakers! You don't need a receiver, you don't need to run wires from all the speakers everywhere. Each speaker is independent with just a power cord, and they all connect over wifi. They support AirPlay and ChromeCast stuff, so you can easily connect other devices to it like your phone or pc for playing music from Spotify or whatever. Alexa and Google's assistant thing work too.

A smart tv can connect to the speakers wirelessly, or you can just connect a tv to one speaker and it'll share the audio properly to all the other speakers automatically. The app lets you group speakers and set up speakers to be used in a surround sound setting, or just be treated as normal speakers. It works great and has a lot of simple options for settings.

Because the speakers are modular, you can add them as you go. I started off with a soundbar for my TV, and then added 2 of the play-3 small speakers for some surround sound in my living room. Eventually I got some Play-5s for my bedroom (and one for my bathroom lol) so I can have music playing in the entire apartment all at once. It's fucking incredibly cool walking around the apartment and having the music play everywhere. I also have one of those Alexa amazon things, so I can say things like "Computer, play Miike Snow in the living room" and it'll start playing. It's great.

First of all, I'm absolutely loving the redesign! It's so modern and video forward, which is just what GB needs. My only constructive feedback so far is with the "Shows" section of the Videos area:

1. Is the idea that completed/abandoned shows move to the Archived section? Right now it feels very confusing why one show is in the "Shows" section vs the "Archived Shows" section. Basically is Kingdom Heartache there just for beta purposes or are we finally continuing with this great series?!

2. Similar to the first point, to me, having things like the Bombcast, Quick Looks, Unfinished, and Playdates mixed in seems wrong to me. I understand the Shows section being a repository of all the different video content hoppers, but I can imagine new users not recognizing that these are huge tent-pole features of the website with thousands of hours of content behind them because they are mixed in with small shows.

3. There is no premium indicator on shows right now, you have to click through to get stopped at the premium paywall. If I may be so bold, I'd love to see some way of telling that a Show has completed, like a [Complete] or [Finished] icon over the Show tile along with the Premium icon or something. I know a lot of people love binging shows but don't want to start something if it hasn't finished airing, so that might apply to GB content as well?

4. Sort options for the Shows and Archived Shows tabs would be handy. Alphabetical is great when you know what you're looking for, but it might be helpful to sort by original air date to find old shows (or see what's hot right now!). There is some functionality overlap with the Latest tab to consider if it makes sense, and what the vision for the Shows tabs are though.

5. Small one: On Firefox 62.0.3 (Win10/64 1440p) I am seeing a scroll bar on the right of the information text that appears over a video before you start playing it. Not seeing it on Chrome. If you aren't signed in or don't have premium and go to a premium video, the scroll bar extends down below the video into the "More episodes of <Show>" carousel.

Montreal is great, but keep in mind the income taxes in Quebec are very high. It's fine if you're spending all your money in the province, but a lower take home pay makes it more challenging to travel or invest. That being said, you do get access to great social support structures, especially for family and school. Also, I'm sure you know, but Quebec is mostly french speaking, with Montreal being the main exception.

You might want to also consider Alberta, Calgary specifically. It's a clean and modern city, wages tend to be some of the highest in the country, and the local chinooks in the winter are a nice blast of warm air to keep you going till spring. House prices in Calgary are pretty high, but still substantially lower than Vancouver and Toronto, they've also dropped considerably in the last 3 years due to the recession and oil prices. The commuter cities around Calgary have very reasonable prices for nice new homes, and are only around a 20~min highway drive from downtown. If you're searching, look up Airdrie, Cochrane, or Okotoks.

Out in BC is fantastic if you can find work to support yourself. Coming from the UK you'll probably find the weather familiar, which is either good or bad. There isn't much of a winter besides gray skies and rain, and it stays nice and warm year round. The downside is the house prices are insane anywhere remotely close to Vancouver, but there is still a lot of opportunity to be found in the province.

For games that are important enough to review, I would love to see them have a mini-podcast or video/livestream where they just played some of the game and talked about what they liked or didn't like. Maybe do the first part non-spoilery and the second part with spoilers (or split them out). For what its worth though, I voted yes for this poll. Reviews are great and I enjoyed them growing up, but I think there are opportunities provided by the technology we have access to now to explore alternative methods of reviewing, and redefining what a "review" even is.

Yeah I've had no luck. I think whatever podcast app Alexa uses by default doesn't have the beastcast listed in it. Alexa support is still pretty limited in Canada, but if you're in the US try searching through the skills for a podcast app that has it and see if that works.

I think Stardew is a far far better game, but it really comes down to if you want to farm, dungeon, and romance, or golf, quest, and rpg.