Do you still have to buy some tier of gamepass to be able to play multiplayer games that you own online?

He is so good at getting subtle facial expression through the prosthetic. Really remarkable.

Been around since at least TNG:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Structural_integrity_field

Anyone got any recommendations from the books on the list?

Mass Effect Andromeda! I just played through the ‘Legendary Edition’ of the trilogy, and despite what I’d heard about Andromeda, I couldn’t resist it at under $4 at GameStop.

…and I’m actually enjoying it a lot!

I wonder if it might actually get better reviews if it were released today. We’re more used to open worlds, and it’s less expected that you’d try to finish every little quest line you are presented with (‘Oh, don’t do that - that’s just for people who really like collecting things!’), and more expected that you’d jump around between places and not ‘complete’ one area before going on to another.

I’m not really seeing the problem with facial animations that some reviewers complain very loudly about - and some people online say rendered the game ‘unplayable’. Maybe I’m just not attuned to see it? Or maybe they updated it after release?

There are two subscription prices - the more expensive one has no ads, the cheaper one has ads.

I can’t quite imagine how the TNG -> Picard timeline for her works out given this, presuming this is meant to fit into the same timeline. Can someone who knows the comics universe lay it out?

Really don’t think that ‘playing the right way’ is a new phenomenon. I haven’t played an online FPS in 20 years, but I vividly remember controversy around camping when I was playing Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 Arena way back then.

Or pause during cut scenes!

Was a sleeper - not sure it still counts, because it caught some good press, but Pentiment. Way more fun and engrossing than any short description makes it sound. And I feel like I even learned a bunch from it!

They’re now saying that this was incorrect: the Xbox release will include a disc.

https://www.gamespot.com/amp-articles/starfield-does-have-a-physical-disc-after-all/1100-6515495/

C. S. Lewis:

“…to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/84171-critics-who-treat-adult-as-a-term-of-approval-instead

Early forties here. Also grew up with the Spectrum. In my admittedly slightly nerdy friend circle it’s completely normal. People always talking about interesting games in just the same way as they would movies. People playing games with their kids. Lots of talk about Tears of the Kingdom at our last gathering. I assume for younger people it’s even more normal.

All this is to say, I don’t think there’s a static absolute age cut-off. I think we’re probably the first generation that will see a substantial portion continue to identify as small-g ‘gamers’ well into retirement. If they’re is a (moving, getting older) age cut-off, at 47 now, maybe you’re just on the upper side of the tipping point?