She sounds dumb in Japanese too. Her speech tick is annoying and her word-usage/voicing is supposed to sound like a 4 year old. It’s annoy, period.

Dunno, looked pretty realistic for a tactical nuke. They got the air burst, shock lens, the rising column faded quickly to reflect the soot material and lack of further combustion.

Man sees article about popular internet culture, expects no popular internet culture!

One of the cats we had when I was a little kid was a toilet pee and pooper.

Argue all you guys want about the differences between the PS5 and XSX. They’re the same hardware, just that Microsoft is paying the binning tax and Sony is just taking the same hardware at with a reduced ‘min-spec’.

I’ve been assuming that was the plan since they announced this.

I think the core reason why I fall down on the side of Joel making the right decision was that the Fireflies demonstrated that they were not an organization making righteous choices for humanity, they were just another organized militia looking out for themselves.

I agree.

The general setting is that these ships are part of an alternate universe/world where they’re brought to life through “Mental Cube” technology.

You can’t take any damage, you only have 1 HP for the entire game.

Completing Muramasa on Fury mode. That will go down as my greatest gaming achievement.  Nothing will ever come close to the feeling I had after I got that platinum trophy.

I’m working on a scifi apocolypse novel featuring a modern world in which a plastic eating microbe designed to clean the oceans of micro-plastics gets out of hand and makes plastics useless world wide, while also causing excessive carbon acidification of most water sources.

I think that this works on the assumption that the Yoda-species has a maturity gradient similar to humans. It may also be that the species experiences a biological change, similar to human developmental windows, that triggers a rapid maturation — brain pathways that were previously in a ‘shut-up-and-listen’ mode for…

Because the tube is under extreme vacuum and the glass is so thick and hardened, when it IS cracked, the pressure differential causes the stress fractures to spread pretty fast and violently. For the most part though, the face glass is so thick, it’s pretty difficult to break it.

I had a Tacoma for 6 years, ended up living in a studio apartment in the middle of town 1.5 miles from work. I realized at that point I didn’t need a truck, it was dumb, and I bought a Prius. “Going economical, maybe I’ll do more driving and road trips now?” I thought.

I’m going to give your rhetorical question and honest answer.

A significant portion of the American medical healthcare system’s costs/charges originate from inside schemes and agreements between hospitals, doctors, and insurance companies. The insurance companies are raking it in so spectacularly, that the costs for medical assistance and associates materials are all inflated so…

Relax, it’s a devkit. If you go bad and look at previous devkits, they don’t resemble the commercial product. 

To be fair, most of the current gen PC hardware can run VR so if you’ve upgraded your PC anytime in the last two years with any level of gaming in mind, you’re probably good to go with your current system.

There probably is a good reason for it, most people performing a burial ritual are not very flippant about the deceased and do things on a lark. But...