Windows XP is 25 years old. It was, and still is, a gorgeous-looking operating system and, in my opinion, the best-looking Windows ever, especially this Silver theme I used to use back in the day. And the best Windows experience ever. No wonder they called it eXPerience.

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BioWare has made some great games over the past 30 years. One of them was my favorite Western-made RPG, Mass Effect 2. The game I did everything there was to do, including all DLC content all the way beating it in the hardest difficulty. I don't usually bother, only with the greats. RIP BioWare. Going woke and not listening to players about what they wanted did this.

The character design on the left made the studio independent. The character design on the right killed the studio.

First, these mega corporations create AI as we know it and force it upon us. When we finally accept it and embrace it, we make you obsolete with your own creation. "No, not like that!"

No wonder critics hate it. She actually looks like Chun-Li! I can't wait to see the Street Fighter movie.

Even Cammy looks the part in the Street Fighter movie. I just wish she was in the Delta Red outfit instead of Killer Bee. But I'll take it.

Grand Theft Auto VI is the first game in the franchise to feature a female protagonist, Lucia. Whatever you think about it, the fact remains that GTA 6 is going to break all the records in gaming. It has all the marketing in the world to make sure everybody on the planet knows when it's out. And that marketing is backed by the quality product, which has become kind of rare these days. It's kind of the same thing as the upcoming God of War: Laundry. It has an ugly woman protagonist. It's going to be woke as fuck, and I despise it and won't buy it. God of War, to me, is Kratos being badass, banging all the women and ripping the gods apart. Not whatever they are now. But it will sell well and be successful because it has big money and marketing behind it and probably a quality product technically. However, Sony seems to have stumbled with that lately. My point is, it doesn't matter if you like it or not. Marketing and knowing how to sell your product to the masses do.

I don't hate C. Viper's latest outfit in SF6. It's not perfect but it deserves my seal of approval.

Bully is 20 years old. Feels like it was yesterday when I first played it. Probably still the best Rockstar game. If you haven't experienced this masterpiece for some reason, go and play it, like right now!

Here are all the Halloween-themed skins available right now on the Aion 2 store. Again, by buying all three Halloween skins in Aion 2, you could buy the Ultimate Edition of GTA VI. Let that sink in for a moment. While these are nice, they are not even remotely worth it, not even in a free-to-play game.

Aion 2 adds some Halloween-themed skins to its store. This one is my favorite! What's not my favorite is the price tag! I can understand that a free-to-play game has to make money, but one skin costing half the price of a AAA game is just outrageous and way too much.

Aion 2 finally adds the Invert Y-axis option. It's anyone's guess why it wasn't there to begin with. Considering the game has lots of accessibility options, for some reason, being able to flip the camera control to your natural direction isn't one of them! Now, I can finally properly play the game!

Oh my... Grok did this. Zero prompt. I only told it to quick-animate it. grok.com/imagine/post/bf4c9b…

It's only a matter of time before you can't reverse-engineer commercial software with your favorite AI coding agents unless you have the means to do things 100% locally with your own models. These recent developments and the explosion of cloning Adobe apps, bringing PS5 binaries to PC, among other things, made sure of that. Corporate lawyers are on it, I guarantee you that.

Jailbroken PS5 consoles and associated PSN accounts are reportedly getting banned from PlayStation Network. A User connected their jailbroken PS5 online and got permanently banned. Both the account and console became unusable for online services. And now my unpopular take: What did you expect to happen? I think it's a good thing they don't allow rogue systems on their network, first of all because of the security of the network and its legitimate users. It prevents cheating in online games. And last but not least, it prevents piracy.

I don't give a flying rat's ass about Dead by Daylight but a win is always a win and I'll take it. Keep complaining and we'll fix them all one by one, complaining shouldn't be required, though.

Paradise

One of these companies is printing money.

Gears of War: E-Day sold 230k in the first week. 62k on Xbox, 168k on Steam. Game Pass cannibalized sales, with 722k Premium upgrades sold, according to Alinea Analytics. Where are these 136K missing players? Steam charts tell a different story. Maybe they're taking turns to play it?