Cinematic Titanic never really worked all that well for me, but it was clear that the tone was entirely different there. Pretty much everyone involved was a lot more energetic and better at being a ‘character’. The problem though, is that the movies were just terrible and lacked the charm that even more average MST3K…

I’m more of a Mike guy so far, but I definitely still like Joel. I remember reading the same thing more than once, about how Joel never really liked being in front of the camera.

Really, what made that work was the fact Mike had been the head writer for years before getting in front of the camera as “Mike”. Mike came in having been on screen a few times in minor roles, but more involved in creating the jokes, where Joel was really more on the delivery and the prop comedy that kicked off each…

Hell yes. I know it’s weird, but I have a love of the Classic American Van, even have my own ‘84 Dodge sitting in the dirt half of my driveway waiting on a battery and a tuneup for this coming summer.

Another thing about Monopoly is that the rules are so loose and easily modifiable that people can internalize the rules (except the one rule nobody remembers about property auctions) and come up with variations on the fly to change things up.

This is legit, I have seen something like this at Big Lots.

A local animal sanctuary had the same goddamn problem, and it wound up killing a tiger and a wolf and getting one of the cheetahs sick. How the fuck does this kind of thing happen? Why are these drugs anywhere near processing for animal feed? I can’t understand it, unless it was intentional, in which case that person…

The worst part was the entire film being all grimdark and Martha-y. Eisenberg did okay with what he was given, but he was given something that just didn’t feel at all like a take on Lex Luthor that anyone could care about.

It really was, even though it was explained in the movie I think it was a case where it really should have been the payoff to an entire movie and not just an explodey set piece in one.

Honestly, I think Affleck is a *great* Batman. He’s the best mix of Batman and Bruce Wayne that I think we’ve seen on screen since Adam West or Michael Keaton, because other actors in the role usually were good at one or the other but not both. Clooney could have done it well, but had crap material to work with.…

Mostly, yep. It was only tangentially related, because the need for a second CPU in the floppy drive was the reason why the C64 was so screwed with performance. So really, you added a second CPU to your machine and had performance choked to death when it ran.

“Welcome to Hardee’s Academy — can I teach you long division today?”

But it did function as an accelerator, since it accelerates the data read and write process compared to the then-typical tape drive. Also, you *could* play with the small amount of RAM in the floppy drive, if you really wanted to.

I think Martha Stewart’s advanced level of chill makes her a pretty great example of vanilla, herself.

Well, they did catch on, but it was just too expensive to keep doing multi processor that way for the mainstream when it became possible to just slap two processor cores on the same die and the thermal envelope could handle it. And it’s quite honestly a case where most people don’t need that amount of power anymore,…

Actually... In the early days of personal computing, you very likely did have multiple CPUs if you wanted to accelerate performance in one area or another. The Commodore 64's floppy drive had a processor in it, and there were a number of accelerator boards that added faster processors to the Apple II series and even…

This is honestly just putting a simplistic take on one of those pieces of “unconventional wisdom” that people who actually pay attention to CPU performance figures have known for ages. It’s good to illustrate just how small the differences really are between an i5 and an i7 under different circumstances, but I do…

While you’re at it, you should probably fix all the instances of “Civilizations VI”. It’s just Civilization. Sorry, but that bugs me a lot more than unlabeled axes. ;)

I do expect to see a bit of a price drop in Vive sets, possibly as much as $200 worth by the end of this year. Unlike Oculus, Valve really got the whole room scale right, and in a way that they’ve already been working on iterations that will bring the cost of tracking down on all fronts. Between that, and more subtle…

AR and VR aren’t going to be competing with each other, as much as they’ll be complementary technologies. One of the big things about VR is that it is all-encompassing, which AR simply isn’t designed to do.