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  1. Is more RAM really needed?

    You can always download more RAM if you are not sure https://downloadmoreram.com/
    4 points
  2. Is more RAM really needed?

    You're fine.
    3 points
  3. The Mandalorian

    I think Disney are starting to wake up to this fact too. From what I've heard on the rumour mill, they've already shut down Kennedy's attempts at expanding her upcoming Acolyte show into a wider universe and are giving Filoni and Favreau more leeway in what they can do. Don't be surprised to see more and more elements from SW Legends brought into their shows in the future and quite possibly, a backdoor retconning of the sequels. Fortunately they have about 30 years of time they can play with between Jedi and Awakens.
    2 points
  4. The Mandalorian

    Exactly, so this baseless ad-hominem "You don't like it because boys can't cope with strong female leads, you're all just mysoginists" (also known as the "Sony Ghostbusters Tactic") is utter hogwash. Heck even to the point that Rogue One was possibly my favourite modern SW movie. It's all about priorities: Filoni's priorities seem to be good stories and character development Kennedy's seem to be shoehorned inclusivity and setpieces I'm all for inclusivity, but not at the cost of the actual story or trampling over existing cannon. My generation grew up watching Ep6 at the cinema and had our "Hero Luke" that we had held on to for decades. We wanted to be him and play with lightsabres as a kid, we read about his ongoing stories as a teen, we saw his back story in our 20s, we played games that skirted close to his world in our 30s. And then he was suddenly turned into some grumpy, weird old hermit in our 40s - with such a thin backstory for this change that it wasn't acceptable. Then Filoni and Favreau reminded us of the Jedi Master that we last saw on screens in 1983. And it wasn't to anyone's detriment. It didn't hurt any wannabe-victim society group. It wasn't forced and it wasn't unjustified - heck it was fully explained via Moff Gideon's facial expressions. Was it a little deus-ex machina? Sure, for now. But it's going somewhere. And let's look at it this way - what has kept Disney afloat in 2020? Disney+, and what is the ONE THING currently worth watching on Disney+, the one thing that has pushed subscriptions through the roof? Yup, the awesome storytelling, world building, character arcs, reverence to cannon and presentation of The Mandalorian. Realistically, Disney should look at Kennedy and her cohorts (massively including Pablo Hidalgo for his stupid comments*) and realise that they aren't the massive money spinners that they thought they would be. Did the sequel trilogy make dollar? Sure. But did it setup an ongoing franchise for long-term storytelling and a bankable future? Sweet lord no. * Telling someone who cried at the season finale that "Emotions are not for sharing"... 'Scuse me? I cried like a baby, and Disney love that because there's no easier way to get people to part with money than to play upon emotions. When they play the SW theme in the fireworks and hold that note for just a couple of seconds longer, or when they play the theme lightly on piano, they know what they are doing. It's the same bankable nostalgia a showing us a Jedi Master arrive in a single X-Wing. "That thing you love? Here's more of it without watering it down!"
    2 points
  5. The Echo Auto is 60% off with six months of free Amazon Music right now

    These should be banned by the NHTSA. Disconnects frequently and requires manually starting the Alexa app on your phone to reconnect, which just encourages already distracted drivers to take their eyes off the road.
    2 points
  6. The Mandalorian

    Like I said, super powered Mary Sue's.
    2 points
  7. The Mandalorian

    The sad thing is that they tried to make Rey a female version of Luke and did a ###### poor job of it. Instead of making her original /unique.
    2 points
  8. The Mandalorian

    Exactly, anyone who disagrees with me is entitled to their own opinion, but I am fed up of being force fed political correctness in the guise of "entertainment".
    2 points
  9. The Mandalorian

    It's not about the strong female characters, it's about the strong male characters being REPLACED and then EMASCULATED by those making the movies in the first place. This isn't even the actress's fault, she's just reading a script and doing her job. I have zero issues with strong female character roles, but I DO have a problem with them replacing existing male characters and destroying them in the process. If Hollyweird wants us to embrace their female leads, then give us ORIGINAL characters with GOOD story lines, not super powered Mary Sues with story lines that pee all over our childhood heroes.
    2 points
  10. The Mandalorian

    What's done is done, you can't retcon the whole ending half of the season final. If it's true and she's mad for some reason well too bad. She should be happy fans love Ahsoka so much and that there's a show with her on the way, there's your female hero if you're craving for one. Besides the first half of the final ep was chicks being badass. Personally, I don't have issue with the idea of Rey, it was interesting till they screwed it up themselves. The fans are done with the sequel trilogy, I bet most would be happy if they retconned them fully. The whole first order bit is dumb thinking back on it, a planet size version of the death star , though I know it's from the comics but come on. You can spend all day poking holes in the trilogy till there's nothing left, just bad story telling.
    2 points
  11. Upgraded to 12 Pro Max from 8 Plus

    if we continue to need to wear masks I wouldn't mind seeing both touch and face id on the iphone 13
    2 points
  12. The web is becoming an annoying garbagefest

    Here's one that annoys me Steven. Websites who run contests that are only for U.S citizens. That really pi**es me off. 😋 Having said that, happy new year Steven. 👍
    2 points
  13. what a confusing mess 2021, they need to replace the whole windows team, including management and people at the top this is very bad and doesn't inspire confidence for windows 10x and its future
    2 points
  14. Microsoft has a big 2021 planned for Windows and Surface

    I hope getting Windows 10 to actually work is on the list. God I miss Windows 7 and its UI.
    2 points
  15. The web is becoming an annoying garbagefest

    If you aren't catfished into clicking on BS headlines that claim something and then end up being nothing more than clickbait with nothing of what is claimed in the headline (like for example "Air date for Strange New Worlds" and then it ends up claiming "sometime in 2021" those sort of articles). I immediately block these sites from Google News, which is mainly where it happens for me. Here are some annoyances in no particular order Random captchas showing up on sites I visit every week (like for example my local supermarket order online) without VPN, why then? North American sites denying entry for visitors from the EU (seriously F*** YOU!) GDPR cookie banner annoyance Yes I do have an extension to bypass GDPR cookie warnings, but while it works in 80% of the time, it creates an additional annoyance on sites it doesn't work on by disabling the page altogether until I disable it manually for that site and reload the page/accept the cookies. Honestly, people couldn't be more annoying if they tried with just these examples.
    1 point
  16. Is more RAM really needed?

    Linus Tech Tips. Not sure where this is coming from though...doubt he ever claimed "64GB" aside from possibly recommending it for CAD, heavy video editing, programming, multiple VMs...etc. I'm pretty sure I heard him say 16GB was the sweet spot for most gamers.
    1 point
  17. Is more RAM really needed?

    False.
    1 point
  18. The Mandalorian

    Ahsoka is a great character, no denying it. Filoni handled her growth from an obnoxious smart ass padawan to wise ex-jedi masterfully BUT, if Mara Jade showed up, SW fans would literally explode from excitement...
    1 point
  19. I just upgraded from 1909, using FreshStart for the first time. It's unbelievable how poor the spit and polish of Windows 10 remains so far on from launch. Windows really has lost its way. You see how Microsoft churns out updates for Teams. That's the focus and attitude Microsoft needs to apply to Windows. It's slow, buggy, has an inconsistent appearance and is pretty uninspiring ecosystem. I hope word of Microsoft's newfound interest in Windows following the pandemic bears fruit.
    1 point
  20. Metro: Last Light Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next 48 hours

    its back up.
    1 point
  21. Windows laptop touchpad Poll

    The poll is worded a bit ambiguously, is it supposed to be voting on which our laptop has got, or which we prefer? My Dell XPS has #2 "clickpad" but in the 3 years of having the laptop I've never actually clicked it, and use/prefer #3 style.
    1 point
  22. Microsoft has a big 2021 planned for Windows and Surface

    Let's look at iOS as a great example: 32-bit OS until, what, iOS 9? Then 64-bit. There was a 32-bit compatability until iOS 11 after which you could no longer run 32-bit applications at all, now you might think "oh well" but no, that's ######. Lots of that software was PAID, and essentially it was all dumped, and you as a user have no recourse to get your money back, and because it's apple there's no way to revert to an older version of iOS an dun software YOU HAVE PAID FOR. I agree with you for the most part. But people don't just want software that works, they want software that works as expected. If the software isn't updated to keep in line with the new system, features, interface, etc. then it eventually doesn't work as expected and the experience is bad, even if it does work. This example isn't quite in line, but here in Aus, our BoM (weather forecasters) put out an app for Apple devices. A month or so later that same app was ported across to Android, and not updated for years. Even when it was new on Android, it was a terrible experience because it expected an iOS system, so animations were direct from iOS, back buttons didn't work, and it was just a clunky iOS 4 mess on an Android 2.3 system (the app survived till Android 5 days, but no one used it). We live in a modern world where things get updated daily. Not saying that's a great thing, but that's how it is. Apples grace period and transparent compatibility with a set time frame (generally two release cycles), is implemented brilliantly, and it allows them to keep their systems much more efficient. Developers know the path they need to go down if their app is to remain compatible, and if their users are paying for such a product, they better well get their ###### together and have something in place by the time that support ends. And some times a code refresh is what an app needs too to remain relevant and responsive, so while it may be a lot of work each time Apple or MS change their backend, if done right (and not that frequently) it is actually a good thing. Eg. I can't imagine Photoshop is using much of the same code from the PowerPC days! You forget the thousands of companies that have proprietary and expensive software that has been running on Windows since the XP times or even before, that works and has to keep working. Microsoft can't simply let them down. Apple does not have this problem.
    1 point
  23. Linux Mint 20 Ulyana - Have You Upgraded?

    https://fossbytes.com/how-to-enable-snap-and-install-snap-packages-on-linux-mint-20/ but I can see how it might be 'too many hoops to jump through' for you though. but everything I use, which is not too much, is more of a standard install (i.e. '.deb' or PPA or through Software Manager) as I don't use snap or any alternatives to my knowledge. plus, if I recall correctly using non-standard methods wastes quite a bit more disk space since all of it's dependencies are contained within the download, which increases download size quite a bit and can waste a decent amount of disk space, especially if you start getting multiple things setup that way. LMDE seems decent but from what little I played around with it, I am not sure if it's updates are as simple as the mainline Mint(?), like with kernel updates etc, and that's not supported for 5 years like the mainline Mint versions are. LMDE series might supported for a couple of years or so tops, at least based on fairly recent memory, which is not much as I would figure a minimum of 3 years or so as when your looking at 2 years (or so) or less, one is sort of forced to upgrade a bit too often (but I guess Win10 is sort of like that with it's 18 month(1.5 year) cycles. but upgrades tend to be a bit simpler as with Linux Mint, minor upgrades(i.e. ".0" to ".1" etc) are okay, but with major upgrades (i.e. v19.x to v20.x etc), it's best to clean install is the general word from what I have heard). plus, I might be wrong... but I think doing basic security updates etc on the official Debian seems more complex(?) vs Mint which is easy. that's why I can't see myself dumping the main Mint (Ubuntu based) anytime soon as it's a wonder people don't make stuff a bit more simple on Linux in general where possible as it makes no sense to make basic tasks (like security updates for OS or installing basic programs and making programs function as simple as possible) more complicated than they need to be. because while I get with Linux things in general can be a bit more complex, we don't need it to be TOO complex though either as things should still be simple enough to where you don't have to be some computer genius to do stuff that's normally a fairly simple thing (or something that does not normally require too much time to do). but I think this is partially why Linux won't become mainstream anytime soon is probably... 1)lack of software and 2)it's a bit more complicated to use compared to Windows in general (especially since one will probably have to use the terminal at some point and remembering what commands to type can be tricky etc (which is why I typically log stuff to a text file for future use in case I need to do something and forget it. but I like how you can press the up and down arrows on the keyboard to cycle through previously used terminal commands which can save time). but I think if Linux can do what someone needs, it's a solid alternative to Windows. so for what I do, Linux works well enough for me. but anyways, maybe LMDE will be a option for some people. because right now, if for some random reason I could not use the mainline Mint, I would be seriously considering LMDE if I had to. Yeah, at this point there is no real rush as Mint v19.x series, as I imagine you already know, is supported until April 2023. so after about 2 years from now you will have to start looking into upgrade from v19.x series soon at that point. but Mint v21.x series will be out by then since I imagine as you already know it seems like there is pretty much 2 years apart between each major release (i.e. Mint v19 is 2018, Mint v20 is 2020, Mint v21 should be 2022 etc). but that's definitely one thing I like about the mainline Mint is 5 years of support as this does not feel too short like say a couple of years or so does where you will be sort of forced to do bigger upgrades more often. but, like I was saying, once I clean install Mint v20.1 when it's released soon enough, ill probably be on it for at least a couple of years or so and if I don't feel like upgrading in that couple of years or so, I can still put it off for another year or two if I really needed to.
    1 point
  24. The web is becoming an annoying garbagefest

    Windows Central is terrible for that. The site is plastered with paid advertorials posing as articles and even the legitimate news articles are plastered with paid links to buy products. It's a toilet of a website.
    1 point
  25. LG will unveil its first QNED TVs at CES 2021, featuring mini LED

    Well having more than a toe still dipped firmly into the home video industry I can say that's not unusual. But it can and does happen - even LG admitted there's a variance between panels. Sometimes it takes years before you notice it. Another OLED issue is uneven lifespan of the color subpixels.
    1 point
  26. Mouse life and quality poll

    I have mice still in use from the 90s when lasers started replacing the trackball. I've got a Logitech ps2 laser mouse, the blue one from 1999/2000 I think, still works with a USB adapter lol. The thing that seems to go bad for me is the scroll wheel, and I can usually tell off the bat when taking it out of the box if the scroll wheel is going to give out and will return it for a different one, they wheel doesn't turn consistently or requires more push to move. Prior to lasers, yeah, the track wheel would be the most common point of failure for me, those things got disgusting if you were in a dusty/smokers environment. I haven't had issues with clicks since the early 90s.
    1 point
  27. Mouse life and quality poll

    You haven't lived if you haven't abused buttons 😛
    1 point
  28. Share Your Short Film Discoveries

    Title: Curfew Genre: Drama Runtime: 19:45 Description: Having reached the lowest point in his life, a self-destructive man on the brink of demise receives an unexpected call from his estranged sister to look after her young daughter for the night. Could this be the beginning of a new reality?
    1 point
  29. Here are the 100 bestselling Steam games of 2020

    Comparing games that anyone with a PC can play to most with a PC cannot play. I'd love to play Alyx but can't justify outlay for VR for perhaps the only game I might play.
    1 point
  30. The web is becoming an annoying garbagefest

    I disagree, I think all these things make the web a lot more interesting and fun to use.
    1 point
  31. The web is becoming an annoying garbagefest

    Video ads that autoplay without audio still payout, and was a requirement from me to our advertiser. When they started with this bright idea they autoplayed audio and I had them disabled until they fixed this oversight. Ads are fine and necessary to pay for things, but when they start taking over the content like others have pointed out, then it's not great at all.
    1 point
  32. The web is becoming an annoying garbagefest

    What boggles my mind are the sites that STILL think people want auto play videos. Do they really think people say "WOW, an video that started playing all by itself as I was trying to read the article on the page, it really helped me get engaged in the article." for me personally, it makes me want to never return to their site!
    1 point
  33. The web is becoming an annoying garbagefest

    Its almost unusable on a cheaper mobile phone unless on a network running filters. Only going to get worse as big Telecom, Media and Tech continue to morph the internet into a tightly controlled, interactive, IP friendly, walled garden portal to their paid services. Telecom with their caps are controlling what you do with your connection. Media is strangling content available and influencing independent thought. Tech is making devices less repairable, proprietary, restricted and disposable. You own less and less as cloud offerings take over. Government is backing them up all the way.
    1 point
  34. Here are the five biggest tech surprises of 2020

    what change to the device manager?
    1 point
  35. Holy Old Thread Bump Batman!

    I have purchased a plugin from the Invision Board Marketplace called Auto Lock Topics. It basically auto locks topics, and we've set ours for older than 90 days. Right now I have disabled the automated message all these locked topics will get because we have over 980K topics that will be locked, and thanks to me not thinking a bit more about the settings, some topics were bumped to the top of forums, which defeats the whole purpose 😛 They are now silently locked, and when the task has completed to 90 days ago I will enable a message that suggests a new topic be started, or to contact a moderator for unlocking (in certain cases we will allow this, like for returning seasons of TV shows etc). Anyway just wanted to update you all on why some old topics from 2001 might be showing up on your feeds.
    1 point
  36. Here are the 100 bestselling Steam games of 2020

    For VR it was still a lot.
    1 point
  37. A look back at the best laptops of 2020

    You forget a couple things though. At least be a bit original and don't steal my comment's style. I'm sure nonsense like this is welcome in the Apple marketing team. Join them. "Continuity" and "cohesiveness", LOL. Are you advertising a brand of glue? The most typo-riddled piece of propaganda I've ever seen. It's "number of apps", not "amount of apps", it's "above-average" not "above average", and "macOS" not "MacOS"; there must be a comma after "compatibility". And by the way, instead of "average and above-average users", you could write "almost everyone". It'd be a lie, but a grammatically correct one. Look in this very same article for a laptop under one grand. Battery life becomes important only when the device is useful enough to turn it on. Apple laptops are not.
    1 point
  38. Here are the 100 bestselling Steam games of 2020

    The games within each category aren't listed according to ranking, which is why I haven't numbered them. They are both Bronze, Valve hasn't disclosed which sold better.
    1 point
  39. Microsoft has a big 2021 planned for Windows and Surface

    Yep. I don't know why it's so difficult to completely overhaul the UI. Because Windows is about backwards compatibility. There is a reason Windows RT, Windows 10S and Windows 10X (despite not being out yet) failed.
    1 point
  40. The Mandalorian

    Well I'm glad I stuck through it. This show is bloody awesome.
    1 point
  41. Microsoft has a big 2021 planned for Windows and Surface

    20H2 was buggy as hell when it first was pushed to PC's. I've had two customers with corrupted Windows installations that could not be repaired. What is annoying is that Microsoft stopped Window 10, since v.1809, from making automatic registry backups. There was no good reason to eliminate this important and useful way to fix Windows corruption, especially if it was solely in the registry. Why did they remove registry backups, and yet added unimportant features that none of my customers knew existed, including "Meet now"?
    1 point
  42. Microsoft has a big 2021 planned for Windows and Surface

    Another thing that's reportedly coming is support for Android apps in the Microsoft Store. Codenamed Project Latte, no one really knows why Microsoft would do this, especially since it killed off its initial attempt at running Android apps, Project Astoria. It's fairly simple actually, especially when you understand why Astoria was killed off. That all started when Win 8 first launched and Microsoft was trying to get Windows Phone 8 going. The idea was UWP would be the equivalent of Cocoa Touch in iOS and Microsoft Store would be their Apple Store. Except - they couldn't motivate anyone to write UWP apps since it was a completely different toolset from Windows (unlike Cocoa Touch which still used macOS underpinnings on iOS). So, the idea was to create Project Astoria for Android and Ironwood for iOS to provide cross-system platforms and allow devs to port (or even run) their apps on Win Phone 8 easily. Then someone (betting it was Sinsofsky) suddenly realised 'crap - then they'll have NO reason to write UWP apps' and shut both projects down. Didn't help. UWP was a flop even on Windows because of the same problem: it was touch centric and incompatible with Win32 toolsets which meant having to write two versions of everything. Eventually they started merging UWP and Win32 - but YEARS too late. Win Phone died for a lack of ecosystem and Win 10 put the nail in UWP's coffin as a Win32 replacement. Which is stalling Win 10 and Win 10 X in tablet environments because devs aren't making touch apps for Win 10 (and, well, Google hates Microsoft). So, finding a way to run Android apps "natively" in Windows gives Microsoft 2/3s of an ecosystem that's compatible with the Duo. They still won't have Google Play Services... but here's the trick... neither do Chinese phones. So, if MSFT comes up with a replacement that's tightly integrated with Windows - donates it to AOSP Android... instant 1.7B customers Google can't touch. Win/win Windows.
    1 point
  43. Microsoft has a big 2021 planned for Windows and Surface

    People don’t want 10X as much as they want a consistent and pleasant UI. Something we haven’t seen in Windows since 7.
    1 point
  44. Microsoft has a big 2021 planned for Windows and Surface

    I’ll believe the UI refresh when I see it. Like before, this will be lipstick on a pig. The top-level UI elements will be updated, but once we’ll start digging in the UI the Windows 95 and Vista bits will still be there.
    1 point
  45. Here are the five coolest tech innovations of 2020

    I will politely disagree with you on the X1 Fold and the LG wing. These crazy form factors may be just a year or so old but foldable phones and multi screen devices are going to be the future (whether you are on board this trend or not). In that sense, both products are revolutionary. In case of Lenovo, it has brought the ideology of foldable design to the PC world and executed it well (although not perfect). Foldable devices exist, but this is the best one yet that makes people sit up and take notice. This is actually similar to what Apple has done with its silicon. ARM PCs exist, but this is the best one yet that makes people sit up and take notice. LG, OTOH, has turned the concept of multi screen devices on its head (pun intended) in genuinely useful ways. True multitasking on mobile phones is still wonky at best. We need 2 screens to give equal attention to 2 apps simultaneously and tasks involving the use of 1 primary app and 1 secondary app simultaneously is a compromise to both app experiences (see split screen, floating windows, chat heads, actions on the notification shade). This device is a solution for that problem. Additionally, holding the phone in landscape mode with a single hand isn't ergonomic. Even though people want larger screens, they prefer to hold something small and easy in their hands (See the prevalence of vertical videos, kickstands, pop sockets that rotate phones, gimbals and selfie sticks). This phone definitely isn't perfect but is a revolutionary step in the right direction.
    1 point
  46. Here are the five coolest tech innovations of 2020

    "starring Sony's PlayStation 5 and Microsoft's Xbox Series X|S. While each console has slightly different strengths and weaknesses, both brought very similar innovations, including being some of the first pieces of hardware to pack RDNA2-based GPUs" PS5, sure, but you might want to at least fact check the reasons you give. 1) The PS5's GPU does NOT have full RDNA2 hardware. See AMD. See Microsoft. The Xbox Series S/X developer tools didn't turn on RDNA2 until a couple of months ago, where Sony's development toolkit was fully optimized for the RDNA1 + Ray Tracing added to the shader pipeline. It is not RDNA2. Microsoft, just like AMD, doesn't even have a fully optimized driver path or development framework for the Xbox series graphics. Sony does, you know why? Sony's hardware is only RDNA1 + their ray tracing implementation. This is why, that PS5, being 25% slower than the Xbox series X, with the current development tools, is about the same speed as the Xbox series X in some games, as they are not optimized for RDNA2 or even using those technologies. The Microsoft and AMD GPU drivers are still not even optimized for RDNA2. The AMD 6xxx GPUs will get faster as the drivers are optimized, and developers actually implement the newer technologies without a semi emulation layer that is optimized for Nvidia RTX hardware. (Now NVidia may keep the lead, as their hardware as specific ML processing, where AMD is doing the ML/Ai work in the existing shader pipeline.) Sony opted for faster uptick of development for current generation gaming, as things from the existing PC and console generations, translate easily to the PS5 RDNA, but is significantly limited in features & technologies that come from RDNA2 hardware. Sony cannot have RDNA2 hardware, as Microsoft helped AMD develop it, and Sony's silicon was finalized long before the RDNA2 silicon and features were implemented. 2) 3D Audio - The Xbox Series has MORE 3D audio technologies than the PS5, with the new 3D spatial hardware and engine, and it also outputs and translates to non-proprietary technologies like DTS and Dolby Atmos - specifically things the PS5 does not do because it is using a Sony only audio output format, that is effectively worthless right now. The tempest engine is interesting, but offers NOTHING that is not in the Xbox - as it does full 360 degree output, supporting up to like 64-128 speaker locations. 3D space is 3D space, there is no additional direction that the tempest is offering. Let me be clear here, as binaural in ear 3D audio is NOT NEW, and is fully supported on the Xbox Series. Except, the Xbox can output and reproduce it on SPEAKERS - something the PS5 CANNOT DO, as the 3D audio does not support speakers the PS5. Users expecting a speaker based 3D audio experience, will not currently get it with the PS5. The PS5's 3D audio is currently only Headphone only and limited to Sony's implementation, where the Xbox series supports DTS, Atmos, speakers and headphones, and can map to the user's ear shape, something that may be coming to the PS5 for headphone. ------ The PS5 is a great console, and has some good strengths, but it has no feature that is above the Xbox Series or PC technologies, and it also is not as full featured or as fast. Picking features that some bad tech reviews promoted as being PS5 'only' and saying these are the reason to buy a PS5 is just not accurate. Instead, talk about the dual shock (as you have) VR experiences, the UI and in game UI features that are unique, etc. (It is ok to prefer the PS5, but don't give people bad information to justify why.)
    1 point
  47. Investor sues Cyberpunk 2077 maker over false claims

    I thought it was accepted that the state of the game on release was because of the investors? They - as well as a handful of the gaming community - were pressuring the developers to release the game when the developers were saying that they needed more time?
    1 point
  48. To be fair. i also don't feel safe with human drivers on the road. These don't have to be perfect (and they won't be), they need to be significantly better than humans. I expect that we are close to that point for mapped cities.
    1 point
  49. Just to be replaced by another set of embarrassing candidates. 🤦‍♂️ I'm sure you are SOOOO much better 🙄 Not even sure what that's supposed to mean. To say it more clearly - Our two party system is basically two sides of the same coin. Biden/Harris is no improvement.... 30K+ Americans and their families beg to differ Exactly my point! Because the other half of Americans and their families beg to differ that the incoming is an improvement over the current President. Back to the good ol' corrupt carrier politicians with Biden/Harris, (and I say both 'cause I don't expect Biden to last 4 years, but maybe he'll surprise us). I'm not a big fan of either, but at least the economy was really good under Trump (until COVID hit), for all his faults. At least one person I know that voted for Biden doesn't like him in the least, and hates Harris. But he dislikes Trump even more. And the same goes the other way around in my circle of friends and family for the most part; we're all voting to keep a worse candidate out instead of voting for someone we'd actually want to be President. I really doubt we're the only ones. To me that says loads about the current state of politics. After running an awful candidate in 2016, instead of learning from it and getting a good candidate that really could bring both sides together, the DNC doubled-down on stupid and this is what we got. Sigh... ok not sure where to start. 1. Trump didn't "fix" the economy, he was riding the Obama train, period. https://www.bbhub.io/mike/sites/27/2020/02/Trump-Economy-01.jpg And I'm tired of hearing how Trump gets a free pass in regards to the pandemic. Bush ######ed up, Obama fixed it, Trump downplays the pandemic even today. We are in this mess because he is an idiot. 2. No candidate you find will ever please everyone EVER! 3. Who's going to bring anyone together when one side is in love with conspiracy theories and believes truth is fake? In general, corruption will not be fixed by the office of the president alone. It requires the population to be smart enough to vote for representatives that won't screw them over so yeah that's never happening here lol. There's so much to fix like term limits, antiquated laws and regulations that make no sense in 2020 but that are in place to keep those in power there. A president can do a lot but without a senate and/or congress nothing will be fixed. 1. Trump didn't "fix" the economy, he was riding the Obama train, period. You can't grow an economy by moving the production to China or feeding freeloaders.
    1 point
  50. The Mandalorian

    It's hard to feel all the way connected to a character that is just a helmet.
    1 point