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24 days agoOne of the jewels in my collection:
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20·1 month agoSome reviewers are just stupid people. I remember seeing a review of a game where they continually complained about the camera… the camera that was 100% player controlled on the right stick.
Did they just, not once, ever, try to move the camera? Yeah, that would be a bad experience in a 3rd person game…
Babylon 5. You don’t fully appreciate season 1 until you watch season 4.
3·2 months ago800 Euros is $930 US which is probably close to reality, but the problem is gaming pricing as a rule looks at the number as being comparable without conversion.
So you get sillyness like the PS5 Pro launching at $699 US but £699 and €799. Even though that conversion comes out to be $699 $937 and $930.
I could see them launching at $1,000 US and then trying to go “Well, that’s the same as £1,000 or €1,000” when it’s not.
The Steam Deck is $650 for the 1TB OLED version.
The Steam Machine reportedly has 6x the power and a 2TB version.
Why is $950 out of the realm of possibility?
For real! And you see all those comments about “Why isn’t it priced like a console?” and I’m like “My brother in Christ, have you SEEN console prices lately?” $600, $650, $700, $750, $800?
Handhelds are even worse.
I love all the articles going “It’s going to cost more than you expect!!!” and I’m like “Really? Because I ‘expected’ around $1,000…”
It’s like people haven’t been watching pricing in the last year or so…
They bury the lede with all the stuff about Sappho, which is cool and all, but the article doesn’t get on topic until about 1/2 way down.
2·2 months agohttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/book-wicked-gregory-maguire-explicit/
In a 2014 interview, he commented, “I deliberately included a ribald, unappealing sex scene in the first 10 pages so people would know it was not for children.”
Can’t say I’m that surprised about Wicked. People get drawn to it by the musicals and stay for the porn. LOL.
Have you considered seeking professional help?
4·2 months agoAny sense of when this might have been?
Yeah, I have an implanted heart monitor now that talks to my phone, it sends a signal back to the docs if anything goes wrong.
My heart has stopped a couple other times, nothing as dramatic as 8 seconds, 4 or 5 seconds here and there. Doc says not to worry as long as it only happens when I’m sleeping and I’m like “Dude! How am I supposed to sleep now?”
You and me both, brother, but mine was January, 2024.
Had my 2nd heart attack in an emergency room, in the middle of a snow and ice storm, as the power goes out.
“OK, you need a stent, but we can’t do that here, we have to get you to a different hospital and the ambulance can’t get here because of the snow and ice. It’s coming.”
Ambulance doesn’t come. I wake up at 6 AM and am fiddling with my phone, nurse comes in.
“Were you asleep about an hour ago?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Your heart stopped for 8 seconds.”
“. . . Um, ‘thank you’? I don’t know the correct response to ‘your heart stopped for 8 seconds’.”
Are they communists because they are red or because they have seized the means of production? 🤔
Next on my reading list:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588857/toms-crossing-by-mark-z-danielewski/
1,232 pages.
Hope that dude was getting ganked in Arc Raiders later that night…
In the 1950s, French men were incredibly sexist, and Bond had no use for women. LOL.
“The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station. We had sampled almost everything else, and now— yes, it was time for a long snort of ether. And then do the next hundred miles in a horrible, slobbering sort of spastic stupor. The only way to keep alert on ether is to do up a lot of amyls—not all at once, but steadily, just enough to maintain the focus at ninety miles an hour through Barstow.”
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Michael Pachter is, was, and always will be a complete idiot. Back in the PS2 era he stated that it was no big deal if Sony sold out in North America, they could just move units over from Europe… ignoring the fact that both the video and electricity standards don’t match.
$700 isn’t a “death sentence”, know how we know this?
ROG Xbox Ally X - $1000
PS5 Pro - $750
Xbox Series X - $650
ROG Xbox Ally - $600
PS5 - $550
Steam Deck - $550
Xbox Series S - $450
If Valve REALLY wanted to break people’s brains, they would release a “Supply your own RAM and storage” version for $399.