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The Flash
The Flash is awesome. That is all. Also, be careful of potential side effects caused by 14hr binge watching sessions. At least I'm getting my money's worth with that dvd set from walmart. (Now to go potentially enjoy those side effects - which will likely be some awesome dreams.) -
Telltales
So I was watching Angry Joe's impressions of the first chapter of Telltale's Batman story/game/quicktimeevent. I pretty much agree with his assessment, although personally I'm not interested in it anyway. Essentially Gameplay low scores, Story high scores. That's kind of what you expect out of Telltale anyway, and by now it's the story that their ( Read more... ) -
Boiled Frog
So they decided to make a few changes to Windows 10 for the anniversary update. It's like they're using their datamining to find things people do the most with Windows 10, then take it away from the Home and Pro users ( Read more... ) -
Part 7 of the 5-part Minecraft Story Mode game due out soon!
So what's this? Apparently another reason to make sure you wait until an episodic game is completed before you buy it - even a season pass ( Read more... ) -
Ha ha.
Now that they've got millions of PC owners switched to Windows 10, I guess we have our first bit of evidence that they are indeed considering "windows as a service" billing options. We'll see how long it takes them to roll it out to the PC owners that accepted (or were tricked into) the "free" OS upgrade. -
Steam Summer Sale
So, the first Steam Summer Sale with Valve's new sale format has concluded and it's being reported that it's a "Smashing Success". Essentially games bought were up and revenue was up. But I think whether or not it's a success depends on who you were ( Read more... ) -
So that lasted about a week?
Remember when Microsoft promised to reform their Windows 10 nagware? Yeah, that's kinda over already.
The latest update gives a big splash screen that "might" show up on your screen, reminding you about the soon-to-expire Windows 10 pseudo-free upgrade offer. It has a very email-spam sounding title saying "Sorry to interrupt, but this is important ( Read more... ) -
Windows 10 Upgrade notices to change.. for the better?
So, looks like Microsoft might be returning a wee bit to sanityIt's amazing how eager a company can be to please it's user base. All it took was a year of complaints, several third party programs developed to block Windows 10, alienating a large portion of their userbase causing a boost to Linux and Apple computers around the world, and a wee ( Read more... ) -
Visual Studio 2015 C++ Compiler Secretly Inserts Telemetry Code Into Binaries
Found via slashdot. Essentially a guy compiled a barebones empty program with Microsoft's C++ compiler. just an empty main() function. Yet the compiled binary contained calls for "telemetry_main_invoke_trigger and telemetry_main_return_trigger". This is undocumented, naturally ( Read more... ) -
The Next Windows 10 Shitfest
So a week or two ago people started complaining about how Microsoft changed a few things to trick even more people into installing an OS they didn't want. Namely they went against the very nature of convention and changed the functionality of the big X button in the corner - that up until now would cancel the attempted upgrade the way it should - ( Read more... )