Ooo, that looks promising. If it’s easier to set up than a PSO: Blue Burst private server, I’d much rather do this, even though it has less content than BB.

Heck, I’d be happy if it allowed me to just play Phantasy Star Online offline like I used to! The game won’t even let you play single player without connecting to Xbox live. Though, with PSO2 going live next week for PC, I’m not sure how much time I’d put into my old Xbox saves at this point.

I’m in RI and the mask wearing has been pretty consistent. I don’t see many masks in open spaces and sidewalks, but it’s not like there are people on top of eachother, everyone is very spread out, so that’s OK. The one place I’ve been where people just appear to be clueless is Wal-Mart. I had to buy a new battery for…

My car’s in a good place right now mechanically, probably going to replace the transmission fluid at some point in the summer. My more ambitious project, which I have almost all the necessary parts for, is a full front lighting retrofit for my car. The bottom 2 trim levels came with regular halogen headlights and no…

I see a lot of comments here about how these things will never work out and people will break them and “what about this” and “what about that?” Did everyone miss the part of the article about how these things have been up and running for almost a year now, the vast majority of people using them like the system, and…

Honestly, with the right camera/lens/lighting, you could make actual people look just as “unreal” as these. In fact, if you told me these were real photos of people, I’d believe you and just assume it was the camera or processing.

Learned that one the hard way. Bought some, like, 70 dremel bit set there because I needed the wire brushes and figured “well, I got a 20% off coupon and I can use these other things, too.” The brushes were cup shaped which were perfect. I loaded one into the dremel, turned it on and the strands moved outward into a…

It honestly would have made a ton of sense for Microsoft to publish Gears of War 1 on PS3 at that time (not 2 or 3...yet). The game was probably pretty dead on Xbox 360, so releasing it on PS3 would have made them a bit more money off the game, even with some of the pot going to Sony (as long as the porting process…

Also, especially on PC, this sort of thing isn’t going to age well. I remember being annoyed with all the hallway loading bars in Half Life 2 when it came out, but I was running an Athlon XP at the time with either an IDE or SATA 1 platter drive. When I run the game today on a 3700x and and NVMe drive, those loads are…

If these new batteries can go a million miles, that’s an unnecessary number to hit, so it’s probably a byproduct of some other advancement. If that’s the case, they’re probably also using 100% of the battery capacity instead of only 80% (since charging beyond 80% significantly reduces the overall life of today’s…

I don’t know, the first tech demos for UE3 turned out to be Gears of War and pretty representative, graphically, of what we got in that game. That engine improved quite a bit throughout that generation, too.

Just keep in mind this is a 720p (1366 x 768, specifically) TV.

Just keep in mind this is a 720p (1366 x 768, specifically) TV.

Yeah, and everyone’s health care premiums and deductibles go through the roof. They’re already going to be pretty jacked up because of the last few months and it comes as no surprise that there is all of a sudden talk again about repealing the Affordable Care Act, so that HMOs can increase things even more (since the…

That’s quite the stretch. If someone says drinking and driving is bad, would you say that person wants to abolish alcohol and/or driving? Closing off certain city streets to personal vehicles isn’t a Driver Vs. Pedestrian or Tree Hugger Vs. Coal Roller battle, it’s looking at a situation objectively and changing…

Oooo, this is going to be good! AI upscaled textures, analog camera control on the right stick, higher polygon models (perhaps lifted from newer games), new and expanded levels, the possibilities are endless! I’m looking forward to what this becomes in a couple of years!

And to quote Gordon Ramsay in every episode of Hell’s Kitchen: “It’s RUINED! You donkey!”

I have a lifelong fear of “Getting Ripped Off.” I do the vast majority of the work on my car, but every so often, I need the experienced hand to do it for me. Every single time this comes up, I bring in the car and I try to have a conversation with the mechanic. What I’m really doing is trying to give them an…

Saw the picture before reading the headline. First impression was, “Oh, that’s not bad, actually nice looking, I like it!” Then I read the headline and the first paragraph. Honestly thought maybe you posted the wrong picture because this couldn’t possibly be the same car you were talking about. Kept reading. Nope, you…

Yeah, alcohol, not beer. There’s an easily-capturable-CO2 shortage (we still have WAY more CO2 than we should and we can still capture CO2, just not as cheaply as sticking filters on smokestacks), so that limits beer, hard seltzers, etc., we’ll still tons of wines and liquors available.

No deal for me. I like that it’s a stick, but there was nothing “special” about this car to me. It may be fun to drive, but there are several other cars from that time and “status” that are funner to drive for similar money (see Z3/Z4). I also HATED the retro cars in that era, pretty much across the board, even though…