I could see that. However, steam has a very strong backend these days, so I doubt that’s really an issue. Personally, I don’t really shut my PC down often aside from automatic updates (once a month? Maybe?)

Generally speaking, they try to schedule the updates during times you aren’t actively using the PC. They never seem to take into account that you shut down said PC though.

For sure. Finished the first trilogy, working on Liveship now (about at the end of Book 2). I haven’t had a writer make me actively hate a character so much, for being who he is, and not because it was poorly written.

This. My parents tell me “You should just do XYZ yourself, it’s cheaper!” Except, it’s not cheaper in my time spent. They have owned their house for years...because they paid 30k for back in the 70s. That same house would cost about $250k today. Between rising costs and additional expenses they didn’t have when they…

The answer is 9, and only someone bad at math should interpret it as 6 over 2(1+2). Unless it is written as a fraction, properly, it should be considered division. Some (stupid) teachers teach it that way, and it’s why we have this “issue”. I have never, through all of my studies, had a book or instructor tell me that…

Yes....yes it is. This is commonly 2(1+2) = 2*(1+2) is commonly accepted math shorthand. I’d like to avoid whoever taught you math.

Agreed. 6th gen interior feels very cramped compared to my 5th. It almost felt like sitting in an old Miata that put on a few pounds.

Marginally better, but better I guess. I went from an 01 to a 2015. Rear windows are better in the 01, but the mirrors a astoundingly better in the 2015, so it’s a wash to me. My trim also has the back up camera, so it’s not such a big deal backing up. (Should have been standard on all 5th gen tbh)

How fondly do you look back at your childhood? Are your rose tinted glasses particularly rosy? I watched the first terminator a few years back and it was super cringy. (Don’t do it, you’ll probably regret it. =D)

Pretty much everything so far has been animated until this. Live action stuff is always a gamble. When it’s done well, it’s amazing. When it’s even a bit off, it’s a disaster. It also tends to age poorly.

I have. Some of them are super dark, you’re not wrong. What I meant was that at a surface level, Pokemon is traditionally presented bright and cheery. When you start digging there’s some creepy shit for sure though, but it’s rarely in your face about it in the games and shows.

Perhaps. Without numbers we’ll never know, and obviously they’re not going to tell us. Selling on both would theoretically net them the most benefit though overall. I also wonder about the exact wording on the deals with this exclusivity. Is it for the 1 game, or these and future games? If it’s also for future games,…

True, but even if it’s lighthearted it’s still set in a rather gritty universe, which is a departure from standard Pokemon depictions.

After the disaster that was the SMB movie, Nintendo has been VERY tight fisted with their IPs when it comes to movies. I'm surprised that Detective Pikachu got made honestly, but it does look surprisingly good.

Bcause the paying for exclusives is shortsighted. (by the Dev mostly) On one hand, you’re getting an injection of cash. Great! On the other, you’re now limited to a single distributor of your product and potentially pissing off your customers. Not so great.

yeah, but they made it worse somehow. 5th gen isn’t nearly as bad as people made it out to be. 6th....just feels strange.

As someone who DD’s a 5th gen, I don’t know what they were going for with the 6th. 5th has a usable trunk (albeit small opening) decent interior space for what it is, and overall a fine DD. Complaints about visibility are mitigated by proper mirror use and just getting used to the car. They took pretty much all the…

If you care at all about the condition of your car, then you are very used to parking as far away from the shopping cart corral as humanly possible when visiting the grocery store.

 Very good as far as I can tell, though you need to pay a bit extra for the streaming service. You can also adjust the quality, at least in the Windows 10 app.

My parents refused to buy me a Gameboy when I was a kid. So, I ended up saving my allowance/gift money up plus doing odd jobs (mowing lawns and such) and saved up enough to buy my own GBC. I’ve owned everything since.