It’s either an inspiring cross-country adventure or a cautionary tale of functional homelessness.  Possibly a bit of both.

Didn’t the most recent run of the actual Black Widow comic reveal that The Red Room program also involved creating a line of clones of their most capable agents, and that there are actually multiple copies of Natasha Romanov running around the main Marvel timeline?  Wouldn’t shock me at all if they incorporated that…

GPU here is referring to GamePass Ultimate. Subscription service from Microsoft. Access to a couple hundred games and online play. Not graphics processing unit.

So, what exactly is this cryptocurrency UBI actually going to be worth? I mean, if they’re just handing it out for free to everyone on planet earth, it’s either going to horribly disrupt the dynamics of very poor economies (by making the UBI stream worth more than actual labor), or it’s not going to be worth enough…

GPU is the killer app of the Xbox environment at this point, so I would dare say that a significant proportion of Xbox owners are going to have it one way or another. It’s hard to beat the value it provides.

I tried it out in my iPhone 12 last night. The graphics are great - on par with what my Series X puts out. It loads fast, and it runs smoothly on my home connection. But man, does the screen get cramped with touch controls.

A one-way ticket to Mars keeps sounding less and less scary at this rate.

The problem isn’t that the vaccine isn’t effective; that’s borne out by the number of hospitalized vaxxed patients vs non-vaxxed patients in relation to the broader population.  

Maybe it’ll get better with some updates? Probably not.

My SO (who’s an early elementary teacher) has a not-insignificant portion of our spare bedroom dedicated to crates of cheap bulk erasers, chachkies, allergen-free candy and children’s books and board/card games that she picks up from Prime Day and related blowout sales. All because people won’t chip in a few bucks mor…

“I got mine, screw the rest of you” is a very Republican approach to things in general, so it’s entirely plausible that some white/privileged Hispanic groups could certainly use that logic to vote for Trump & Co. and still be fairly logically consistent. Add in the overlapping Catholic anti-abortion angle, and it…

Counterpoint: if those hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars had been spent supporting Democratic candidates in a handful of tight Senate races, we might actually have a realistic chance at M4A. And at that point, St Judes wouldn’t need to exist as a charity because parents without insurance could just…

Fellow Floridian here. I can only imagine my electric bill in the summertime would be more than my car payment if I tried to keep the thermostat at 72.  78 is perfectly fine when it’s 90+ outside.

78 degrees in TX in June isn’t a heat wave, it’s 7:00 AM on a good day. If that’s enough for someone to have to worry about dehydration, they seriously need to reconsider some of their life choices.

And the 512GB storage very quickly becomes an issue. Sure, external storage for last-gen games is a workable near-term solution. But once you pony up for a solid-state X|S drive for more next-gen storage, you might as well have just bought a Series X in the first place.

The risks associated with me not drinking coffee are far greater than the risks of me continuing to pound 3-4 cups a day. It’s pretty much the only thing standing between me and a paralyzing existential crisis from slowing down enough that I won’t be able to help but stare into the void.

I get it - the pandemic was awful, killed a lot of people and was hugely disruptive. But most of the damage was our own damn fault. If half the country hadn’t dismissed it as “just the flu” or “a liberal hoax” and had put in just a bit of effort to contain the situation instead of effectively putting their fingers in…

Eh…it wasn’t that good. Janky camera & controls, slow story, not that scary for a horror game. Was initially excited about it as a GP-Day 1 title, but lost interest and deleted it within a couple days.

I mean, us hairless apes have almost sorted out quantum computing. At scale, that kind of technology should allow for real-time communication across vast expanses of space.But you definitely have a point about evolution (not to mention social/cultural upheaval) rendering the residents of each successive systemic coloni…

The whales waved Oumuamua off.  We did it to ourselves.