Yeah, this calculator is totally useless without being able to plug in numbers other than your income. State tax deductions are a serious thing for those of us in high tax states, and losing those could much more than offset any decrease in federal income tax. Much like eliminating the mortgage deduction, I’m not…

The 3DO cost $1200 in inflation-adjusted dollars, so it’s not really a fair comparison. I’d also point out that it’s not “games”, it’s “exclusives”. There is plenty of good stuff to play on the X1, even if it’s available on other platforms as well.

If you have Wildlands, that game is one to check out. HUGE image quality increase, and the frame rate is locked at 30. People get too focused on 4K+HDR... the difference from the extra RAM with textures is pretty striking.

I was playing Wildlands on my X1X with 4K HDR TV last night, and the graphical difference from the X1S was pretty huge. There’s clearly some room to grow, especially given that you can fit much better textures in the extra RAM the X1X has.

It should be, but you need to set your X1 to do it, though. It’s somewhere in settings.

If the CPU was way faster than the X1's, that would be more of a problem... but it’s not.

While that may be true _now_, it was not always in the past. And Norway/Statoil never seized control of any of their competitors - they merged and/or acquired them. Also, Statoil is not the Norwegian government, no more than Fannie Mae is part of the US government. Is it really that hard to admit that Norway didn’t…

You are confusing nationalizing oil _reserves_ with nationalizing the oil _industry_.

Norway didn’t nationalize their oil industry. They established Statoil, and then promptly farmed out the work to private companies. This is a LOT different than what Venezuela did, which basically said “everything now belongs to us”. So, faulty comparison.

Yes, this was a bizarre anecdote. I _think_ he was trying to say that these items were being farmed, too.

“Market-driven peril?” Are you kidding me? The Venezuelans are in serious trouble because their government nationalized the oil industry, underinvested in it so as to subsidize social programs / political handouts, and then got screwed when the oil prices dropped out of the stratosphere. They then compounded this with…

Have you tried using Calibre?

7" screen is a step in the right direction, but they really need to go to 8-10" screens. After my Kindle DX died (RIP), I bought an Inkbook 8, and I feel like 8" was reasonable for a decent read.

I cracked the code, and it’s “anime”.

SHUT YOUR FILTHY MOUTH, PGR3 WAS GREAT.

The math seems to work... I have an archive of every US NES game ever made, and I think it was < 400mb. Definitely enough to fit in a 512mb storage space.

The games media narrative has been to fawn over the Switch releases of games that have been out on other platforms for more than a year. I don’t understand it, either. This article typifies that - of the three “big” RPGs, one is literally last-gen and one isn’t an RPG. XBC2 is cool, but give me a break, it’s one game.

Did a spiral cut dog for the first time last month. It’s pretty pimp, but adds some prep time to what’s supposed to be one of the easier grill items. My ungrateful spawn didn’t really seem to notice a difference.

I had to check to make sure that was real, and much to my surprise/dismay/hilarity, it was. Well-played, sir.

Did just that on Sunday night. The game seems much improved with the three content patches. Not sure it’s 100% where it needs to be, but it seems quite a lot closer.