Oh weird. I figured out "lung packing" on my own as a teenager, although I never really pushed myself hard. Didn't realize there was a name for it. Looking back on that, I just thought I was imagining that it was helping me hold my breath longer. Apparently it's a real thing. Cool.

My question is whether or not this affects the taste of each of these. Note that I don't mean the actual flavor, just how it's perceived by a mind that is thrown off by this weirdness.

That's cool. Hadn't heard about that.

I used to want to make replicas of things in Minecraft, but buildings are so lifeless/pointless. They'll also never be close enough to reality to be considered 1:1 replicas. You run into so many issues with things that are supposed to be less than one block-width wide. I'd like to see this done with something like…

Yeah. I almost feel like waiting even longer to upgrade, since I can run almost everything I want to with my three year-old computer, but I dunno. I'll probably get the best card I can for Windows 7 and hope it lasts another three or four years.

Exactly. I know there are a lot that benefit from it, but my three year old DX10 card can still play 98% of games just fine. I've never cared that much about playing games on Ultra settings. I just want them to run smoothly. I do look forward to seeing tessellation in games, first-hand, though, when I get my next card.

You know, I didn't actually think of checking Wikipedia for some reason. Only four games on that list actually require DirectX 11. I thought there would be more that I just hadn't heard about. Weird.

Yeah, a lot of games support it. Very few seem to actually require it (which makes sense from a sales perspective, I guess).

How many games require DX11 at the moment? I know Crysis 3 does (without a fan-made patch/hack), but I'm not sure about any others. It'll probably be quite a while before anything requires DX12, I would think.

Well, that was unexpected. I appreciate that. Anyway, don't worry about it. I can certainly see how practically everything I wrote could be taken badly. I'm actually quite surprised that more people didn't react the same way you did.

Always nice to see reasonable people online. In case one of those PC people you mentioned shows up and starts to get angry, I'm just going to write more here.

As I said to other people, I meant "generic" as "unspecific." His appearance doesn't say anything about his background. Using the word "generic" was a poor choice on my part.

Ah. Good to know. Thanks for the info.

I can't edit my post anymore. I mentioned to DocSeuss that I should've used a different word. What I meant was that his appearance doesn't say much about where he's from. One definition of "generic" is "unspecific". That was what I was going for, but I picked a terrible word for it.

Obviously, I'm generalizing here, but there are certain features that are associated with Jewish men (talking about people from a certain part of the middle east, not the religion). For example, a certain shape of nose seems pretty common. I'm not saying all Jewish people have the same nose, but that by using a Jewish…

I know. I think the devs of the current game did an okay job reworking the character. It was a statement solely meant for the context of this article. I was thinking about how the former devs say that he's Jewish, but he doesn't look the least bit Jewish in the upcoming game.

Oh, weird. Never heard that. I like how they've "connected" all these games, even though it really makes no difference to anything.

I probably should've used a different word. I meant "generic" in that it's unclear where he's meant to be from (He certainly doesn't look Jewish), not that he looks like a typical soldier character.

It's too bad he still looks like your generic grizzled soldier.Then again, I guess the new devs probably didn't know what the old devs had in mind for a backstory.

That'd kinda be my guess too. On a related note, it's kinda weird how games in other genres get rebooted all the time, but RTSs don't (unless you consider the AoE and C&C browser games to be reboots).