4k textures. Also, general purpose OS with other things taking up RAM, so you naturally need more to account for other things hogging it. [Software Developer speaking: NEVER assume you have sole control of any system resources on a general purpose OS.]

Its a tie between a late-70's (I think?) Chevy Celebrity that was always overheating, and the Dodge Caravan that had three working cylinders after 70k miles.

The Pokemon stat wise is meh, they should just ban the move and get on with it.

I played semi-professional Battlefield 2 during that era; if you didn’t play a ton of MP during that time period it is hard to understate how much of a leap Call of Duty 4 was over everything else in terms of how it felt and played. In BF2 we accepted things like pre-selected class loadouts, and a sever that more…

You can turn it off, which I highly recommend.

I’ve long held Tactics Ogre was superior to FF Tactics; glad it’s getting some new appreciation.

Yep, three primary branching paths (plus a lot of minor ones). The branching paths are fairly obvious.

The issue was that most emulators had issues with the texture decompression, since everything was compressed. And I think Star Ocean also had a nasty bug that made the overworld music die from time to time. It was probably one of the last titles to get emulated this side of Star Fox 2.

“I’ve always been curious about this series, but my one foray into it was Til the End of Time.”

Yeah, people don’t really comprehend just how many boomers who were planning on working for 5 or so more years took buyouts during the pandemic; that’s the primary driver of the current across-the-board worker shortage we are having.

Yeah, speaking as someone who hates grinding, it’s not bad now. Maybe 4-5 hours per weapon, maybe a bit longer for the ones closer to 30 levels. Its not as bad as it used to be.

Thing is, everything you just said goes against Supply Side economic theory. Since the 70's, the entire point has been to lower production costs as much as possible in order to keep prices and wages low, resulting in inflation being kept minimal.

The problem with Tariffs is unless you have a local industry already producing the goods you are applying the Tariff to, all you are doing is increasing the end product price of the good you are tariffing.

1: Keystone would not decrease prices, as multiple studies across both Republican and Democratic administrations have found. It’s nothing but a handout meant to give cash to oil & gas companies.

“Yes, because importing 3% of oil from Russia shoots our fuel cost 100% due to Putin’s own doing, right?”

There are some good channels that explain all this is simple terms. Summoning Salt did a dedicated video on 4-2 a few years back that I highly recommend:

Simple solution: Bring back dedicated servers, and let mods do their jobs. Pass around a public ban list, and done.

Guys: It’s not Blizzard now anymore; it’s ALL Activision now.

It’s not the tattoo, it’s the *design* of the tattoo.

“At E3 2005"