I'm not gonna give an opinion either way, but just for the record, anyone talking about the cost already put into the Social Engine, that is a fallacy. The money cannot be retrieved either way and therefore it is irrelevant to the decision moving forward. It's basic economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs If you want to factor money into the equation, you should disregard what has been spent already and is now unrecoverable (i.e., the sunk cost of Social Engine software and plugins), and instead consider prospective costs of both Ning and Social Engine. Which one will incur more costs in the FUTURE? This is relevant because it is controllable based on the decision at hand. That being said, cost is only a small part of the equation. You guys are giving it way too much weight right now. IMO, form, function, stability, accessibility, customizability, etc. are all more important. The site has always managed to make ends meet when needed, so money should not be the chief concern to begin with, as I see it. This post was edited by Teccam at September 25, 2016 3:32 PM EDT

So, I just finished my first playthrough of Uncharted 4, and man, it absolutely blew me away. The writing, sound, level design, visuals, and story were all the best of the series, IMO. The UI design was also a massive improvement. Definitely a lot of these were taken from The Last of Us and I'm not complaining about that at all. Beautiful send off to a genre-defining, platform-defining series. (Though based on the epilogue, even if this is the end of Nate's story, I suspect we may see more Uncharted games in the future.) Has anyone else been playing this game? Thoughts, comments, etc.? One thing I really like about it is the extra content -- the alternate character skins, visual overlays, and game modifiers are really cool, and even more so the Photo Mode. It baffles me why more console games don't include something like this. Here's an album of some of my favorite shots, mostly spoiler free other than a few mid/late game set pieces: UC4 Photo Mode Album - Possible Minor Spoilers Anyone else have shots to share, stories, theories, etc.?

Very cool! It's amazing how people are already doing such different and creative stuff with these. I really want to try my hand at one or two, but I'm not sure I'll be able to until next weekend (like, 10 days from now, not 3) -- at least, not to do it the way I'd like.

I feel like it'd be better not to dump them all in the same thread, otherwise they'll get buried too quickly. This thread is already 9 pages long and it'll (hopefully) get a lot longer over the next few weeks if everyone posts their snapshots here. I think best option would be to let each member get one thread to post any/all snapshots they want to post, and they can manage that thread to some degree as they like (e.g., maybe Henson puts all of his snapshots in the main post, maybe Phil puts his snapshots as top level comments as he writes them, and links the comments in his main body, etc.). And then, between RP and CB, whoever wants to host these threads would do that, and maybe the other group could have a page or a master thread or something, linking to the other group and/or to a few specific members' threads, so that both groups are linked by this.

I love this idea. I find myself having ideas for builds/characters but not enough time to invest in a full play test or write up something full. And I'm not experienced enough with RP profiles to put something like that together. I love the idea of combining the two into a sort of abstract or, as you say, snapshot. Enough to give people the basic concept of a character, maybe even to let them try playing it (if it's a build). But keep it short, keep it simple. I could absolutely get behind this! I've already got a few screenshots I've been wanting to use for something along these lines if I ever got the opportunity....