Honestly, I can hardly distinguish 4k from a standard HD image in the same movie - what I can see the difference in is HDR. However, my wife, a less tech-focused person in general (and probably representative of the average user) can’t really tell the difference at all. Going from 480 to HD was a definite jump, but 4k…

Honestly, I had no idea that they were actually real. In my defense, though, I've never been much into westerns. Nor did I play Bioshock. I guess part of me assumed Rock Stat =GTA, therefore anything named on RDR2 is a spoof of something else even though it's definitely a more serious game otherwise.

Same here. It may be an old nerd’s tale, but anecdotally I’ve seen/heard the most hardware failures occur at boot time.

There are a ton of people that still believe the reboot myth. The runtime on my desktop typically runs in the 6months+ territory, personally, but at the last company I worked with, they insisted on rebooting the unix servers every 30 days. Unix! Those things will stay up happily for decades without issues.

Maybe we can coin a term for every time a <gender>explains something when “mansplaining” is misused:

“I read up on that once. Helicopters don’t very the speed of the rotor to produce lift. So if the engines are on, they’re basically always going full speed”
“thanks for MANSPLAINING THAT TO ME!”
“ok, thanks for…

I’m kind of done with Nintendo force-naming games after the system they’re on. It was cute when the Super NES came out and every game was Super <noun> - Super Metroid, Super Mario Bros, Super Tetris, etc. etc. so I’ve been glad that on the switch that hasn’t been the case with, for example, Breath of the Wild and…

For what it’s worth, I’ve had success in blocking videos on Kotaku entirely using uBlock Origin. If I want to watch it, I can just toggle the block off.

I’m in the US, so you have both my condolences and welcome to the club. We have nachos.

Looking at the weird random junk they have listed on my main amazon page as stuff they recommend I buy, I am seriously skeptical that they’d ever send me something I’d want. But I guess I’ll see... FREE STUFF!!

You’d be happy to know that I heard this post in a Russian accent in my head. Unfortunately, it’s not a very good Russian accent, so there’s that.

Yep, the only way for that to happen would be if all of the characters were reduced to “guy with gun, and maybe you can change the skins”. So long as characters have different abilities and specialties, that isn’t going to happen. Maybe they’d be happier playing fortnite or whatever.

Seriously, here part of me always hoped that the anime trope of women apologizing for ‘causing trouble’ because of things that were done to them or were otherwise out of their control was just a sickening trope. It turns my stomach to see it happen in real life.

Same here. I need these to keep up with my toddler nieces and nephews.

And that’s fair if that’s the kind of job you’re shooting for! However, if you’re “help desk guy #1435” I don’t think it’s warranted.

UGH boars. I haven’t played in forever - have they fixed the hitboxes on boars yet?? I remember getting attacked by those things and shooting them with arrows only to have the arrows fly right through their head without affecting them at all.

Back to your main point, I love that idea. I ran around quite a bit before I…

It also drives me nuts how if you are in an over-leveled area, bad guys can just shrug off your assassinations as if you were a chihuahua biting at their ankles. Just seems unrealistic to me - I don’t care what kind of badass you are, if someone sneaks up behind you and stabs you through your heart, you’re not going to…

That sucks, I’d only run into that (and heard of it) in the last 5 or so years. Yeah, I agree, a person’s credit score shouldn’t have a bearing on whether or not they can get a job.

I think the first stupid mistake you can make is to assume that you’re smart.

Any time a man explains something, apparently...

I actually started doing this with pullups on my pullup bar about 10 or so months ago, and the results have been shockingly good. After about 2 months I could lift myself without ‘jumping’ off, and now I can actually meet my chin to the height of the bar for 10 full reps without discomfort in my muscles. I called it…