My assumption is there’s something on the interior bits not show than would give away the client, hence why all the shots are very carefully staged/cropped at non-standard aspect ratios.

And by CFast I meant CF-Express

They’re also still like a quarter of the cost per GB as CF-Express, which is very similar in terms of form factor and performance. And they’re right in line with the cost of a normal NVMe PCIe-4.0 drive.

Slow, yes, but much faster than downloading over the open internet, and without data cap use for those that have that limitation.

And _very_ cheap compared to CFExpress, which is closer in form factor to these expansion cards, and is also functionally an NVMe SSD. A 1TB CFExpress card costs nearly $1,000.

Except it didn’t, because that’s what cars were like for the first ~100 years of their existence, and it make zero impact on idiots being idiots.

The cool thing about that is that’s just how the OG Xbox worked normally. Every game actually had the full OS baked into it. When you loaded a game, it actually un-loaded the copy of the OS that runs as the “host,” and then boots from the game disk. They did this to keep the overhead of the OS absolutely tiny; because…

This is actually right on price/GB for an equivalent NVMe drive for PC, and _much_ cheaper than, say, a CFast memory card that it resembles in form factor (those are $200 for 128GB).

Yeah, I always imagined they were basically like Bonta-kun from Full Metal Panic!: Fummofu

There’s also a huge element of luck involved in how grindy the early game is. Get lucky and find a large capacity but otherwise weak ship early on, and the game is MUCH easier. Doubly so if you get lucky and get a capital ship for free from a random encounter. But earning the credits/materials to get those things…

Yep, at least if the train is only motivated from one end. Stand in a train yard or a train station where longer passenger trains operate and you’ll hear the very distinct “bang - bang - bang” of each coupling pulling tight in order down the line as the train pulls out, and the inverse as they come to a stop.

This is what you keep saying, and what people keep telling you is not based on any actual data. A person might have bought a PS4 for literally a single exclusive, and that just as much qualifies as exclusives driving console sales as anything else. You have literally no other data about the overlap of ownership of…

Given that Sega Creative Director/Yakuza Director/Producer Toshihiro Nagoshi made functionally the same comment about puzzle gamers, no, it probably wasn’t a child.

Yeah, it’s a fundamental misinterpretation of how statistics work. If there are ten exclusives, each of which sell to 1/10th of the population, then you cannot say anything about the total population, because the total population could each own one exclusive, or 1/10th of the population could own 10 exclusives, and…

The visual-novel/anime series Fate/Stay-Night leans into that directly as plot point. Heroes from all ages are summoned to fight for the holy grail. One of the heroes is Gilgamesh. He is OP as fuck, because every other hero that ever lived is derived from some story that goes back to him, and he has the original of…

Civ 6 makes references to it too, in so much as Ghandi’s script has him REALLY in to nukes. But the way he’s in to them pretty clearly aligns with what Sid is saying here, as the ultimate pacifist deterrent since MAD makes conflict impractical.

Eh, that’s not that strange, in so much as the vast majority of unsigned free agents are not in the game (or most sports games). Of course most of those guys are washed up scrubs, not starting caliber QBs, but from a general process standpoint I can see how such a thing would happen with zero ill-intent.

He was supposed to have one. But then it exploded for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to him not being allowed to have his own people film the workout, as well as various non-standard wavier of rights he would have had to agree to, with extremely minimal notice. And so he wound up working out by…

I assume that’s what the “searching for alternatives to continue the Venture Brothers Story” was referencing. Instead of a 10-hour full season buy, they maybe will cut back to a 2-hour movie/limited series buy if Publik and Hammer are interested.

Most contracts like that have a break clause. Probably they get paid some amount, but not the whole amount. The writing staff likely gets paid either way, but the rest of the production staff might be hosed. Also remember that a cost to the network isn’t just the cost of creating the show itself. It’s also the cost of…