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Really? It was plastered before any Youtube videos I watched or Twitch streams I turned on.

This is super disappointing. I might have been one of the few, but I loved Amalur. Generic setting aside, the combat and general gameplay was everything I wished Skyrim would be.

My status for the past several days

I’m happier than this dude right now:

I don’t write at The Verge, but I do develop for it!

I currently use this:

But when I have two monitors side by side (such as at home), I use this pair of wallpapers:

I have several I got with the boxed copy — shoot me your email here or on twitter (@thedz), and I’ll send you a guest pass key.

What does AMD have to do with the graphics card on a MBA?

I actually know many engineers who work nearly exclusively on laptops. Not because they don’t have access to a 30" screen (in fact, several of them have a 30" Dell LCD right behind the laptop), but because they find that they can more easily focus on just the laptop.

I don’t personally work like that (I like my screens big and bright to accomodate a ton of split windows in emacs), but screen size isn’t everything.

And there definitely have been times where I’m on the go somewhere with just an iPad, and wish that I could make a quick edit to some code.

Anyway, YMMV.

Autumn Dynasty looks really sweet. Digging the graphics.

We’re aware that some images with relatively small dimensions have a disproportionately large file size. Unfortunately, image compression is a relatively complex process if we want to compress each image optimally. We want to preserve The Verge’s magazine feel as much as possible — and that includes high quality photos and images. That said, 250kb for a 300×250 image is obviously too large. It’s something we’re working on.

You don’t to put all images into a single CSS sprites. CSS sprites are primarily used as a method to cache multiple images calls into one request — but that’s not possible if the sprite is constantly changing. It is a good idea to commonly used image assest into a single sprite, and something that we should look into, but there are be any significant size savings or speed gains by putting other article specific photos into a sprite.

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It’s actually more like the creator saying “Shit fuck we ran out of money. Here you guys, we cobbled these together from scrap scenes and recuts.”

This game is pretty sweet. Kind of a cross between Katamari, Rampart, and a roguelike.

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The video for this feature was incredible.

Fourthed. My love of video games is probably only rivaled by my love of television and film.

Ah, good points.

How did the Canon 5dmkII perform in comparison to the D4?

Did you have a chance to try the D800 in a situation like this? A shoot where resolution detail is important, and light is generally ample.

I imagine that shooting the enterprise fly by is in some ways similar to shooting wildlife with a long prime, and I’ve always thought that the D800 might excel in that situation.

Ah, awesome. Thanks for the clarification!

The service leapt from 6 million monthly active users on Facebook to a peak of around 14 million. And then, in just the last thirty days, it has plummeted, falling to around 8 million. Zuckerberg giveth, and he taketh away.

What actually happened? Did Facebook revoke their OpenGraph access?

Suddenly, I need the Vita.

I loved the atmosphere of the Witcher 2, and the graphics. I liked that the narrative didn’t shirk from reality, much in the way that Game of Thrones doesn’t shirk away from the realities of war.

But I simply could not get comfortable with the fighting. Things like laying traps and using the cryptically named abilities sounded cool when I read about them, but in practice, felt awkward.

If Polygon has an old-school Icons or non-current-gaming-news shows like Icons, I will cry tears of joy.

What alphacheeze said above is relevant too, and also sad:

We’ve got a plane that first flew in the 1960s, escorted by a jet that first flew in the 1950s carrying a spaceship that first launched in the 1980s.