I’m guessing most of that difference is storage reserved for caching ridiculously large textures and keeping multiple Quick Resume saves.

The improvement from XB1 mid-cycle games to launch XSX games is going to be incremental (at best), but it should be cool to see what developers can do with that much processing power once they’ve had a couple years to tinker around with it.

He’s a rich old white guy with a business that lends itself well to tax shenanigans, an army of accountants and lawyers and no sense of civic or ethical obligations.

Truly a useful idiot, for so many puppeteers.

That is some seriously terrifying shit.  I wish I could say it’s alarmist, but it’s only alarmist until it actually happens...and everyone is left standing around asking why they didn’t see it coming.

I’m sure it’s high-quality, bleeding edge tech...but it makes a pretty strong case for getting the Series X over the Series S on the issue of storage alone.

I just hope this game finds its way out to the Series X sooner rather than later.

Yes and no. The game has been streamlined A LOT since launch, so it’s not hard to wrap your arms around if you pay attention. But it can be kind of grind-y until you make some significant upgrades to your ship, suit & weapon, and get through the first few solar systems.  But by about 20-30 hours in, it gets better.

Welcome to 2020, where everything is broken.

I’m psyched for the new gen of Xbox, but I’ve been burned by preorders before (both by the process and by getting a flawed product). I’ll probably wait until it’s been out in the wild a couple months before I bite. My old XB1 is still kickin’ it and there aren’t any OMG MUST HAVE launch titles, so I won’t cry myself…

I’m psyched for the new gen of Xbox, but I’ve been burned by preorders before (both by the process and by getting a…

Probably tacked on; the price is the price and the GPU part of the deal comes as a 2-year prepaid voucher. 

Probably tacked on; the price is the price and the GPU part of the deal comes as a 2-year prepaid voucher. 

PS and Nintendo fans will still get Zenimax games, I’m sure. They’ll just have to pay $60-$70 a pop for them outright instead of having them included with their GPU subscription. 

Long-term GPU selection is about to get beefier, with better launch-day availability to help drive GPU adoption and XSX/S purchases.

$175 for a dad shoe? Is that suede made from unicorn hide or something?

$175 for a dad shoe? Is that suede made from unicorn hide or something?

Yeah, lifetime appointments made sense in 1787, when the average life expectancy was under 40. By the time someone became a reknown enough jurist to be considered for the SCOTUS, they’d have maybe a decade or so on the bench before they retired or died. But in the early 21st century, when the average life expectancy…

The thing is, Trump wasn’t even in the cards when the Dems lost control of the senate. Honestly, he wasn’t even taken seriously until he ended up being the tallest midget in the shitshow that was the 2016 Republican primary.

I’m hoping this could be what drives Susan Collins (ME) to vote with the Democrats from the start, and might keep Cory Gardner (CO) on the fence until at least the election.

Wouldn’t shock me in the least if the senate voted on it before lunch on Monday.

We can only hope that there are enough moderate Republican senators in competitive elections that don’t want to screw things up by siding with Trump & Co. that they drag their feet until it’s too late to jam another nominee through before Inauguration Day.