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Giovanni_Fitzpatrick
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I agree with you on all points except the GPU upgrade timeframe. This is the first time that I can recall that a console has launched with comparable (and in this case, better) hardware than mainstream, mid-to-high end gaming PCs.

Current prices notwithstanding, what I’ve seen in the last 3-4 generations are worthy

Considering how easily Microsoft could outright buy Square Enix (or Sony for that matter, antitrust issues notwithstanding), I don’t think that money is necessarily the issue.

SE was all-too-pleased to port FFXI to the 360, and considering that SE didn’t actually make a FFXI port for the PS3 (you could use your old PS2

Check your tone and develop your reading comprehension skills.

Enjoy your day.

So the reason why black English tutors find it difficult to get hired to teach English in China is due to what? Uyghurs are in concentration camps due to what? The entire phenomenon of Chinese companies hiring white actors to play fake executives is due to what?

I didn’t generalize Chinese people as racist. I said many Chinese people are racist, which is a factually true statement, just as many white people are racist, just as many Indians are racist.

People say reading is fundamental but they leave out the comprehension, just as you have.

The problem I’m seeing is people using professional sports as an analogous example, ignoring the fact that all of the professional sports leagues have unions and CBAs representing the players and the teams that explicitly spell out (and limit) the available punishments that can be levied by the league to a player or a

Coronavirus is certainly a lot of it (at least here in the States), as well as a more long-term generalized feeling among many black and brown minorities that Asians (specifically east Asians) often receive better treatment and are insulated from a lot of the racial animus that’s pervasive in a variety of ways here in

It’s more than reasonable to make assumptions about a person’s character based upon the people they associate with. What kind of backwards-ass logic and world do you think you’re living in?

A person’s character is highly-based on the character of the people they associate with, and I think it’s well within the bounds

The team in effect is punished, because having a player (be they a star or a role player) results in a reorganization of game plan and strategy and so forth.

Also, it’s a bad comparison. The players have their union and a CBA which explicitly limits the punishments that the head organization (the NBA) can take against.

Your last statement shows why group punishment in team sports (to an extent given the indiscretion of the individual) often works. It’s precisely because no one else likes paying for someone else’s mistakes that incentivizes the teammates to keep each other in line. Your implicit argument is that moving away from

You must not know about team sports.

Group punishment has a long and storied history in team sports. College basketball and football teams have gotten the proverbial “death penalty” due to individual students on the team taking unreported payments, coaches essentially bribing would-be recruits with trips, alcohol, and

I think you’ve misunderstood my salient point.

What I said was that, given how much the production of GTAVI would likely cost (given that RDR2 was around $500m which includes marketing and advertising, GTAVI would likely be between $600-700m), how much time and resources it would take, and how much money simply

It’s interesting to look at the gaps in dev time between the GTA titles.

III to VC was 1 year (with the caveat that VC was originally planned as an expansion to III), VC to SA was 2 years, SA to IV was delayed to being 3 1/2 years, and IV to V was 5 years.

Reason why it seems so damn long is that V has been constantly

The sheer technological progression we’ve had in the 13 years since IV is staggering. You gotta remember, Crysis dropped only a year before and was melting top of the line computers for the day, yet even Crysis remastered can’t hold a graphical candle to games like RDR2 or modern shooters like Battlefield V or COD.

Sham

To this day, and I would stake my life and gobs of money on this opinion, that no trailers, past or present, will ever be as good as the run GTA had from Vice City until IV.

III’s were good for what they were, but Claude being silent hurts them in retrospect. V, while the production values were higher, were almost too

My 5700xt I picked up last year for $370 is going for nearly $900 on eBay. If all of my gaming wasn’t done on PC (and my main games aren’t available on PS5 or Series X), I’d sell it and get one of them.

Only other time I can remember things being similar, although to a lesser degree, was back in 2014 when RAM and SSD

On specs alone, a PC comparable to the power of a Series X is gonna set you back at least $1000 at MSRP. Considering the prices of GPUs right now, you’d be looking at close to around $1500.

My PC I built last year, with a Ryzen 3600, a 5700xt, 16gb of DDR4, and 1tb NVME SSD, came to a little under $1k. The Series X has

I can’t speak on Mazda, only on my own experiences, but my dealership’s policy was to avoid giving a hard quote over the phone/internet unless you got said quote cleared by a sales manager. The only exception would be if a customer asked, based upon marketing or advertising material (be it physical, a TV ad, or the

I last worked in the industry 11 years ago, so I’m sure that things have gotten a lot more automated and detailed when it comes to updating inventory and prices.

That being said, my dealership had a hard and fast policy that the sales manager had to sign off on the deal regardless. Even the top people had to go to one

Back when I was in the industry (2010), the internet manager was also a salesperson, so at best, you could expect the online inventory to be updated at the end of every day. Most commonly? Every 3-days to a week.

Again, this was 11 years ago so I’d expect things to be better, but given that hiring a single person just