Why spend money on a PC when I can drop $500 on a box that does the same stuff, is easier to use, more portable, and comes in one neat little package that easily fits in an entertainment center? I guess if you already have a decent PC there’s little reason to bother, if you don’t, or your PC is aging, both the Series…

The issue there is I have to nagivate menus to load a game, with a mouse and keyboard from 12 feet away on my 55inch TV. No thanks.
I’d much rather pick up a controller, turn on my console and load up my save file from the cloud and be in my game within seconds.

Cause as the writer said in the article.
There’s a benefit of being able to move from one device to another.
Most people keep their PC at a desk and eventually at some point, most users will want to get up and maybe play on the couch for a while, or play in bed a bit before sleeping.
The Xbox environment lends itself…

Oh we are too, but southern WV is not only a Trump stronghold (and by extension a stronghold for ignorance), but a gun ownership stronghold.

well considering Mitch McConnell lost his majority title...

stop comparing teraflops. That number does not necesarily indicate raw power. Digital Foundry did a video comparing the arhitecture  used by AMD in current gen with Navi which techinacally is used in PS5 and series x and there was a pretty huge difference despite the numbers being technically the same

I think that’s an easy to say view post MCU, but until X-men the only successful superhero films had been the Superman and Batman movies (both franchises that crashed when they changed director) and no-one had yet managed to sccesfully monetise the Marvel collection of characters, so I can understand the studio…

Except its not really just about creative genius, despite Shuler Donner’s claims, its about making hits. Screenwriter William Goldman famously said this about Hollywood:

I’m glad he did what he did. We need more 1%-ers to do the right thing. I feel no need to give him shit for this.

I don’t have much that runs off AA’s anymore. Haven’t in years. It’s the Xbox controller for my gaming PC and I’m pretty sure my mouse’s internal better is just an eneloop. At least the last one was. Maybe a flashlight somewhere.

But that doesn’t make the controller’s AAs an issue. I just bought a 4pk of eneloops with…

The Star Trek galaxy had changed, Seven argued, and so had the people trying to survive in the wake of unprecedented disasters. It wanted to let us know that we couldn’t go back sometimes, that the world had moved on, and thinking that it hadn’t was a dream only the privileged had a chance to dream.

The PS5 is either going to be a little less or a little more powerful than the XBOX Series X, but nothing jaw dropping on either end of the spectrum. The rumor I have heard is that Sony is trying to tweek some final software/firmware adjustments to squeeze a little more juice out of it, but they are not going to come…

If Trump was an element, he'd be Cronymium.

A bit of yes and a bit of no. With sensible precautions, we’ll be absolutely fine. Keep your hands clean, keep your distance from sick people. If ya get sick, stay at home as much as possible untill you’re well again. That’s the gist of it.

Gotta love that millennial point of view. Here’s a wake-up call, there is no such thing as a free vaccine. Someone is paying for the R&D and manufacturing of that vaccine. Why don’t you be more specific in your request and simply say that you want someone else to buy your vaccine for you. Maybe they can pay off your…

Yeah, this. I came here to make the same point about the conflation being made here, but you said it well. It’s easy to shit on Instagrammable plant walls as a foil for our country’s shameful lack of actual systemic, affordable healthcare, but given that we *do* have that hole in our system and we ain’t fixing it…

i would pay 500 a year if I didn’t have to deal with the shity PCPs around me and could get same day appointments.

Supplemental private insurance to actually receive decent care is common in countries with socialized medicine.  Single payer could certainly deliver “a” level of care to everyone but in no way is it “the” level of care.  Money buys you better care and, short of making doctors and nurses slaves, there does not seem to…

I’m not sure if it increases or decreases my faith in human ingenuity that it took bad actors this long to realize what tech support (and uncompensated tech support aka. kids) have known for decades: your average Mac user is much less tech savvy than your average PC user and thus much easier pickings. They are also…

I’ve headcanoned that it’s General Order #2.